Vilhelm Parfumerie

Dear Polly

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

VersionEau de Parfum

Crisp apple and bergamot over Ceylon black tea, drying to mossy oakmoss, soft musk and dark amber.

Vilhelm Parfumerie says

You’ll smell bergamot, apple, Ceylon Black Tea, oakmoss, musk and Black Amber.

More from Vilhelm Parfumerie’s description

It also mentions Black tea and Sensuous musk.

The house’s page

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The drawn Dear Polly bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Dear Polly’s scent picture, a draft: bergamot, apple, tea, oakmoss, musk, amber drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Dear Polly, top notes: Bergamot, Apple

Heartas it settles

Dear Polly, heart: Tea

Dry-downwhat stays

Dear Polly, dry-down: Oakmoss, Musk, Amber

What’s inside it

What the label names

3 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 & lavender

Herbs & lavender1

2 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell2

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Green TeaElizabeth Arden · shares bergamot, tea, oakmoss and cashmere knit$52 for 100 ml · about a fifth of Dear Polly’s about $280
Chrome LegendAzzaro · shares apple, tea, oakmoss and cashmere knit
Supremacy Collector's EditionAfnan · shares bergamot, apple, oakmoss and cashmere knit$60 for 100 ml · about a fifth of Dear Polly’s about $280
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.