Viktor & Rolf
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Fennel and gentian clash pleasantly over the first minutes, creating a green-edged brightness that feels almost herbal-medicinal. This bitter prelude is the fragrance's most interesting moment, before sweetness begins its inevitable advance.
Jasmine emerges softly, its indolic tendencies smoothed into creamy floral submission by synthetic amplifiers. The bourbon vanilla foundation rises to meet it, creating a marshmallow-like sweetness that's undeniably pleasant but increasingly one-dimensional.
What remains is predominantly vanilla and creamy synthetic base—the fennel and gentian long departed, the jasmine reduced to ghostly impressions. The fragrance becomes nearly indistinguishable from skin, a faint warm breath rather than a statement.
Good Fortune arrives as a fragrance caught between two opposing impulses—a classical floral structure wrestled into submission by creamy synthetic amplification. Nicolas Beaulieu's composition begins with an unusual pairing: fennel and gentian create a faintly medicinal, almost herbal counterpoint that prevents this from becoming a cloying gourmand. The fennel provides a subtle anise whisper, whilst gentian lends a bitter-green spine that keeps the sweetness honest, at least initially.
The jasmine in the heart is where the fragrance reveals its true character. Rather than the heady, indolic jasmine sambac that dominates so many contemporary fragrances, this iteration feels restraint—almost chastened. It's rendered delicate and pale by the surrounding creamy accords, sitting atop a bourbon vanilla base that's less about gourmand decadence and more about warm, powdery comfort. That 76% synthetic accord is unmistakable; there's a polished, plastic-smooth quality to the florality that some will find modern and appealing, others unnecessarily artificial.
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