Jo Malone
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Davana announces itself with a peculiar spiced-leather flourish, almost brandy-like in its warmth, cutting through with a peppery bite that feels almost confrontational. Within minutes, honeysuckle emerges tentatively, green and restrained, creating an unusual juxtaposition—you're not smelling a unified floral so much as two distinct botanical characters in negotiation.
The honeysuckle settles into a herbaceous, slightly peppery rendering whilst davana retreats from its initial bombast into something more subtly complex and dried-fruit forward. The green accord intensifies here, lending a leafy, almost crushed-plant quality that dominates the composition's middle passage with quiet insistence.
Moss becomes apparent, offering a damp, earthy foundation, though the fragrance's notorious weakness for projection means you're primarily smelling it on your skin in close proximity. What remains is a ghostly, largely greenish-herbal impression—honeysuckle and davana have largely evaporated, leaving only the faintest suggestion of spice and botanical softness.
Honeysuckle & Davana is an unusually tart floral that refuses the saccharine predictability of its genre. Anne Flipo has engineered something genuinely idiosyncratic here: davana's spiced, almost fermented opening immediately destabilises what you'd expect from a honeysuckle fragrance. Where typical honeysuckle scents offer nostalgic sweetness, this one arrives with a mineral, slightly vinous quality—davana has that peculiar character of dried fruit and old leather, which creates a dissonant tension against the honeysuckle's delicate, almost green interpretation of the flower.
The heart reveals honeysuckle rendered not as cloying tuberose-adjacent florality, but as something greener, with that characteristic pepper-like spiciness that the flower naturally possesses. The accord leans decidedly towards what might be described as a dried botanical impression rather than a fresh bloom—there's an herbaceous, slightly medicinal quality that keeps sentimentality at bay. The 88% green accord isn't incidental; it threads through everything, creating an almost foliage-forward composition where you're smelling the leaves and stems as much as the flowers themselves.
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