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L'Eau d'Hiver(1996)

Frederic Malle · Jean-Claude Ellena · Floral

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Created by Jean-Claude Ellena for Frederic Malle's Editions de Parfums, L'Eau d'Hiver opens on bergamot, moves through a heart of iris and heliotrope, and closes on honey and musk.

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Brand

Frederic Malle

Perfumer

Jean-Claude Ellena

Launched

1996

Family

Floral

Created by Jean-Claude Ellena for Frederic Malle's Editions de Parfums, L'Eau d'Hiver opens on bergamot, moves through a heart of iris and heliotrope, and closes on honey and musk. Its title, Winter Water, describes a warm, powdery composition despite the cool implication, and it represents one of Ellena's contributions to Malle's influential publishing-house model of perfumery, which credited individual perfumers by name and gave them unusual creative freedom.

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