Having never tried it in the stores when it was available, I became curious after viewing the notes and reviews so I bought a mini of Magnifique. You can imagine my surprise when found that this is actually an immortelle bomb with a fresh rosey almost verging on peony aspect to it.
Saffron and caraway are easily discernable but the base is syrupy, caramelized, spiced, immortelle through and through with maybe just a touch of sandalwood. Up close it is all you can smell on the skin. Eight inches to two feet away the fresh rosey aspect which I would have identified as peony is very prominent with only a hint of the caramelly spiced based.
Overall Magnifique has an interesting and unusual composition. The listed notes here made me think I might be in for an overtly Middle Eastern styled rose scent but that's not what I got at all. After smelling it for myself and identifying the immortelle note, the disparate reviews make sense to me now. I like Magnifique, but I don't know that I love it. The dichotomy of fresh floral and then sweet spicy then fresh spicy in one perfume while unique is a little unsettling. I can't think of anything that resembles this. Given that uniqueness I think this would make a remarkable signature scent for someone you loves it regardless of gender.
