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You are bidding on a vanity size (15 ml or 1/2 oz) refillable silver-colored aluminum atomizer of the new Prada Infusion d'Homme Eau de Toilette. The latest fragrance from Prada for men, Infusion
d'Homme has notes of Tunisian neroli, iris pallida, vetiver, cedar and
benzoin. This perfume has recently
received a Four Stars (Excellent) rating from the New York Times Style
magazine perfume column, Scent Notes, by Chandler Burr. I have copied that review for you convenience below.
I
personally guarantee the authenticity of the perfume; I have a history
of positive feedback that I will not compromise. But more importantly,
you are fully protected by eBay's Buyer and Seller Rules of
Authenticity. The reason I am selling this is that I have recently
purchased a large bottle of this gorgeous perfume, but have been faced
by some unanticipated vet expenses. The atomizer alone retails for
$21.95 at the Perfume Atomizers King online store, and 15 ml of
Infusion d'Homme sells for $18.75 at the Perfumed Court (without shipping)! This would be
a great way to try this superb new fragrance, or to have it with you on
the go.
Please note that the Prada box in the background of the photo is not included in this auction. And make sure to check out my other auction items; I will be happy to combine the
shipping on multiple items, and offer you a half-price discount on the
shipping of any additional items. Or BUY IT NOW and receive FREE SHIPPING! (I will reflect that in the invoice I send you after you commit to buying it.)
Scent Notes | Infusion d’Homme by Prada
(Four Stars, Excellent) | By Chandler Burr
September 25th, 2008
When
Daniela Andrier was speaking with Fabio Zambernardi, Miuccia Prada’s
right hand, about possible directions for the new Prada men’s fragrance
they wanted to create, Zambernardi proposed a somewhat unusual idea. In
2007, Andrier had created a women’s scent for Prada called Infusion
d’Iris; he told her that he had been fascinated by the Prada bath soap
scented with the perfume. He proposed a masculine fragrance that
smelled like this soap — or, to be more precise, like the skin of a man
who had, say, found the soap in a woman’s bath and washed his body with
it. Andrier thought about it and went to work.
Infusion
d’Homme launched this month, and it is a precision-crafted work of
subtlety and restraint. The subtlety makes it interesting, the
restraint makes it beautiful, and the fact that there is a perfume of
this quality being marketed to men, rather than the half-done garbage
that men are usually presented with, makes it extraordinary.
Iris
is a difficult material in that is the olfactory equivalent of pearl
gray and reads to the nose as almost a relentless uniform wall of
scent. But gray, done well, is arguably the most beautiful color.
Contrary to universal belief, iris is not a floral but rather a woody
scent, from the roots (not the flowers; iris is actually closer to
sandalwood than to any flower), carefully aged at least three years.
The best-quality iris comes from Florence. Iris is one of the materials
that, like vetiver or rose, can be the entire perfume virtually by
itself. Dior Homme by perfumer Olivier Polge provides a recent
precedent for an iris masculine. It is excellent, but it is different.
Polge wrapped Homme’s iris core in an habillage of softness; habiller
means “to wear” in French, and many perfumes are structured as
habillage around a core, such as Maurice Roucel’s wrapping a milk
chocolate scent in a floral/fruit skin for Missoni.
Andrier,
by contrast, does more of a study in the raw material. There’s an
almost vetiver-like astringency to the creamy woodiness. The approach
is entirely direct (quite typical for male scents), the bath soap
aspect practical (ditto; if you can imagine “guy beauty,” this is it),
the artistry low-key, which is man for “elegant.” Infusion d’Homme has
two analogs in other artistic media. One is visual, John Singer
Sargent’s painting “Madame X”: the white-gray opalescence of Madame
Pierre Gautreau’s breasts and shoulders thrown into relief by her onyx
dress. It is not a feminine painting. Both scent and painting are
stark. Both are clear. Both are striking, which can be another word for
off-putting in their force beneath the elegance.
The
other analog is aural art, Ravel’s “Pavane for a Dead Princess.”
Mournful, careful, musically pointillist, it weaves an almost
relentless wall of sound, a loveliness that is, at the same time, as
clear and tactile as a bar of soap found in a bathtub.
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