A clean, bright fruity-floral built on blackcurrant and grapefruit with a lily-of-the-valley heart. One of Bond No. 9's most-worn women's signatures, prized for its versatility from office to evening. Released 2007.
What People Say
The blackcurrant-grapefruit opening is consistently described as bracingly fresh without tipping into candy territory — it's tart and citrus-bright in a way that reads as genuinely sophisticated rather than generic fruity-floral.
Lily of the valley anchors the heart and gives it a dewy, slightly green quality that keeps the peony and freesia from going powdery or overtly feminine — wearers frequently call this the 'clean without smelling like detergent' zone.
The white musk and cedar dry-down is soft enough to work in close quarters, which is why office-wearers specifically cite this one as a go-to — it doesn't announce itself across a conference room.
Bond No. 9's presentation gets real appreciation here: the bottle and packaging are frequently mentioned as genuinely gift-worthy, and the quality of the spray mechanism earns specific praise from repeat buyers.
Longevity is a recurring complaint — reviewers regularly report the grapefruit and blackcurrant top notes burn off within an hour, leaving a much quieter, almost imperceptible musk on skin that barely registers past the four-hour mark.
For a premium-tier house, community consensus is that this fragrance competes directly with far less expensive clean florals, and the price premium is seen as paying for the bottle and the Bond No. 9 brand rather than any ingredient complexity.
The freesia-peony heart is considered by some fragrance enthusiasts to be aggressively generic — one of those compositions that could have been bottled by any mainstream designer house without raising eyebrows.
Great for
Women who want an inoffensive, polished fruity-floral they can wear daily without generating strong reactions — particularly those who prioritize wearability and professionalism over complexity or projection.
Not for
Anyone who hunts for longevity, sillage, or distinctive oud-heavy or animalic character should avoid this — it fades fast, sits close to the skin, and is deliberately unremarkable in the best and worst sense.
Longevity
Roughly 3-5 hours on most skin types, with the top notes fading quickly and the base settling into a near-skin-level white musk that's barely perceptible by the end of the day.
Projection
Soft to moderate — detectable at arm's length in the first hour but quickly becomes a personal scent cloud that only intimate proximity will catch.
Value
Considered by much of the fragrance community to be one of Bond No. 9's harder sells on value grounds — the juice itself doesn't justify the luxury-house premium the way some of their more distinctive offerings might, and the price feels driven more by packaging and brand cachet than by what's inside the bottle.
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