Gardez Moi

Gardez Moi is a white floral for women from Jovoy Paris, composed by Bertrand Duchaufour and released in 2013. Floral is the word everyone uses; a good number also find it spicy, and a minority describe it as sweet, green, woody or fresh.

The notes are listed without stages. Aldehydes give a bright, slightly soapy sparkle at the start, and tomato leaf adds a sharp, green, garden-like note. The heart is a bouquet of gardenia, white lily, jasmine and ylang-ylang, creamy and heady, with cyclamen adding a dewy freshness and mimosa a soft, powdery sweetness. Black pepper and coriander give the spice people notice. Raspberry adds a touch of fruit. Underneath, Virginia cedar and oakmoss provide a dry, slightly bitter base, and vanilla with musk and styrax leaves a warm, soft finish.

By character this is a spring and daytime fragrance, lush and green-edged rather than sweet, and it suits women who like full white florals with a classic, slightly retro structure.

Gardez Moi — for women fragrance by Jovoy Paris (released 2013). Notes: Aldehydes, Black Pepper, Cedar, Coriander, Cyclamen, Gardenia, Jasmine, Lily, Mimosa, Mimosa absolute, Musk, Oakmoss, Pepper, Raspberry, Styrax, Tomato Leaf, Vanilla, Virginia Cedar, White Lily, Ylang-Ylang. — Parfica open fragrance database