Tiziana Terenzi · Paolo Terenzi

Cassiopea

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5
Tiziana Terenzi asks $385 for 100 ml
100 ml$385

VersionExtrait de Parfum

Passion fruit, lemon and cassis over carnation, lily of the valley and tea rose, then sandalwood, tonka and musk.

Tiziana Terenzi says

You’ll smell Passion Fruit, lemon & Cassis, fern, carnation, lily of the Valley, Rosa Tea, sandalwood, Fava Tonka and musk.

More from Tiziana Terenzi’s description

It also mentions Blackcurrant (cassis), Coumarin (melilotus), Lily and Narcissus.

The house’s page

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The drawn Cassiopea bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Cassiopea’s scent picture, a draft: passion fruit, lemon, blackcurrant, fern, carnation, lily of the valley drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Cassiopea, when you spray it: Passion fruit, Lemon, Blackcurrant, Fern, Bergamot, Bitter orange

As it settlesheart notes

Cassiopea, as it settles: Carnation, Lily of the valley, Tea, Lily

What staysdry-down notes

Cassiopea, what stays: Sandalwood, Tonka (coumarin), Musk, Narcissus, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Vanillin (vanilla)

What’s inside it

What Tiziana Terenzi names

Passion FruitLemon & CassisFernCarnationLily of the ValleyRosa TeaSandalwoodFava TonkaMuskBlackcurrant (cassis)Coumarin (melilotus) (new-mown hay)LilyNarcissus

What the label names

24 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.

5 citrus4 herbs & lavender8 florals2 woods2 sweet1 spices1 musks1 powder

Citrus5

Bergamot oilLimoneneCitralTerpinolenealpha-Terpinene

Herbs & lavender4

PineneLinalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals8

Neroli oilBenzyl salicylateHexyl cinnamal (aldehydes)Dimethyl phenethyl acetateCitronellolGeranyl acetateRose ketonesGeraniol (rose)

Woods2

Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)Ebanol

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Spices1

beta-Caryophyllene

Musks1

Galaxolide (musk)

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)
1 more line on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell1

Alcohol

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

BeautifulEstée Lauder · shares carnation, lily of the valley, sandalwood, tonka and 1 more$115 for 75 ml · about a third of Cassiopea’s $385
Quelques Fleurs L'OriginalHoubigant · shares lemon, carnation, lily of the valley, sandalwood and 2 more$250 for 100 ml
KirkéTiziana Terenzi · shares passion fruit, blackcurrant (cassis), lily of the valley, sandalwood and 1 more$325 for 100 ml · about the same as Cassiopea’s $385
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.