Prada Paradoxe is the house’s refillable eau de parfum for women, composed by Nadège Le Garlantezec, Shyamala Maisondieu and Antoine Maisondieu. This listing is the 90ml bottle. A 50ml is also stocked if you want to try it smaller first.

It opens on neroli bud. Amber accord sits at the heart, and a musk accord holds the base.

Three notes. One per stage. What makes it interesting is the materials behind them. The amber is Ambrofix™, a bio-converted amber made from sugar cane. The musk is Serenolide™, a newer molecule described as one of the most diffusive musks in use and noticeable from the very first spray. So the base does not wait its turn. Musk is there from the start, sitting under the neroli, which means the usual top-heart-base sequence is much flatter here than the table suggests. With only three notes listed and no vanilla, woods or oud among them, there is very little to hide behind. What you smell in the first minute is close to what you smell hours later, just softer. If you like an amber perfume that stays clean and bright and never turns heavy or sugary, this is built that way on purpose.

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