Prada · 2025 · Nadège Le Garlantezec, Shyamala Maisondieu and Antoine Maisondieu

Paradoxe Radical Essence

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Prada asks $205 for 90 ml
90 ml$205

The houseFor women

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Bright neroli and orange blossom over a salty, creamy pistachio, drying down to soft creamy sandalwood.

Prada says

You’ll smell Neroli Oil, Orange Flower Heart Absolute, Salted Pistachio Accord and Sandalwood Accord.

More from Prada’s description

It also mentions Sweet Neroli and Creamy Sandalwood.

The house’s page

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When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Paradoxe Radical Essence’s scent picture, a draft: bitter orange, pistachio, sandalwood, coumarin (new-mown hay) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Paradoxe Radical Essence, when you spray it: Bitter orange

As it settlesheart notes

Paradoxe Radical Essence, as it settles: Pistachio

What staysdry-down notes

Paradoxe Radical Essence, what stays: Sandalwood, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Prada names

Neroli OilSalted Pistachio AccordSandalwood Accord

What the label names

10 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender6 florals1 sweet

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals6

Benzyl salicylateMethyl anthranilateGeraniol (rose)CitronellolHydroxycitronellalFarnesol

Sweet1

Coumarin (new-mown hay)
8 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell8

AlcoholWaterIsopropyl myristateBenzyl alcoholRed 33Yellow 5Diethylamino hydroxybenzoyl hexyl benzoate, not in Ingredients yetPentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Code FemmeArmani · shares bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain) and sandalwood$123 for 50 ml · about the same as Paradoxe Radical Essence’s $205
Jardin de l'OrangerieDries Van Noten · shares bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain) and sandalwoodabout $297 for 100 ml
Pure PoisonDior · shares bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain) and sandalwood$154 for 100 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.