HyacinthOpens with
Ylang-YlangHeart
SandalwoodDries down to
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Escada Margaretha Ley
The quiet luxury of an afternoon spent sipping tea in a sunlit room, where the air is filled with the scent of fresh flowers and warm spices.
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Escada Margaretha LeyMid-range · $40–100How it wears
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The story behind the bottle.
Launched in 1990 by the German luxury fashion house Escada and created by perfumer Michel Almairac, Margaretha Ley is a warm and inviting Oriental Floral fragrance. The composition opens with fresh notes of hyacinth and bergamot, giving way to a heart of jasmine, ylang-ylang, and peach that reads as a soft embrace of floral sweetness. Clove and African orange flower add a subtle warmth, while the base of sandalwood, vanilla, and musk creates a powdery, woody depth.
Apply two sprays to pulse points for a balanced effect — the top notes are bright but short-lived, while the heart and base notes develop slowly. This fragrance reads best close to skin rather than projecting through a room.
Fig. 01 — Escada Margaretha Ley, Escada
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Michel Almairac
The master of empiresMichel Almairac is a master perfumer at Robertet whose career spans over forty years and includes some of the most commercially successful fragrances ever created.
“I was always surrounded by scents and smells which is part of life in that city, natural ones from the crops of flowers growing in the fields, and industrial ones as well, from the perfume factories.”
Michel Almairac · Olfactif interview
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