Top notes: coriander, bergamot, mandarin, blackcurrant. Heart notes: suede, iris, freesia, jasmine sambac, hedione. Base notes: vanilla bean, musk, sandalwood, cedar, labdanum. Perfumer: Geza Schoen. Year of release: 2012. Tsarina — a fragrance from the “Four Corners of the Earth” collection, dedicated to different corners of the world that inspired the founder of the house, Linda Pilkington. The Russian theme here sounds not directly, but through luxury: velvety suede, powdery iris and warm vanilla create a feeling of fur, brocade and heavy silk. The citrus opening with coriander adds living brilliance to the composition, so that the luxury does not seem museum-like. In the heart, the floral notes stay beside suede, so the bouquet turns out not light, but dense and velvety. The base of sandalwood, cedar, labdanum and musk completes the fragrance with a soft amber warmth — calm, confident and very “expensive” in character.