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Opera

III-I L'Attesa Masque 2016

7.9 / 10 312 Ratings

A popular perfume by Masque for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is powdery-floral. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Powdery

Floral

Woody

Creamy

Leathery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Champagne

Italian bergamot

Moroccan neroli

Heart Notes

Italian iris absolute

French orris root

Italian orris root

Madagascan ylang-ylang

Tuberose absolute

Base Notes

Mysore sandalwood Leather

Leather

Oakmoss

Perfumer

Luca Maffei

Ratings

Scent

7.9312 Ratings

Longevity

7.8269 Ratings

Sillage

7.1268 Ratings

Bottle

8.2218 Ratings

Value for money

6.699 Ratings

Submitted by Michael, last update on 09/17/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Opera collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

I: L'Heure Promise

La Peau Nue

Homme

Cuir de Nacre

Iris silver mist

Iris des Champs Eau de Parfum

Reviews

16 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/25/2017

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 7
Longevity 10
Scent

Mrsg37
32 Reviews

Mrsg37

2

Love it!

I love iris/ orris fragrances but this particular one is beautiful. The bottle is a heavy, good quality one and although on the pricey side for 35ml I feel it's worth it. The orris obvious from the start with its earthy characteristic but this scent somehow combines a fizzy effervescent element to it which I'm guessing is the champagne and it just works! It doesn't smell alcoholic to me just that fizzy aldehyde aroma you get from say Chanel Eau premiere and as mentioned combined with the other notes is elegant and beautiful.

11/19/2022

Saturnalis
36 Reviews

Saturnalis

2

radiant orris

prismatic orris and iris, running the gamut of facets; dry to oily to doughy to powdery to floral, flecked with bergamot and a tart, yeasty fizz. a rosiness emerging from somewhere. champagne leather. gradually deepens and darkens as the oakmoss becomes more apparent, sloughing its radiance. a luxuriant projection.

06/17/2023

Ostara
61 Reviews

Ostara

2

Wet Pea Gravel Meets the Laundry Soap Aisle

L'Attesa opens on a glorious orris note that is rooty, starchy, papery and cold.

There's a slight bready nuance that follows soon after the opening and then transitions into a cool dusty, powder textured scent that evoked strong childhood memories of the smell of wet playground pea gravel on a cold winter day. That cold, earthy, powdered mineral accord is what captivates me and moves me. It actually enticed me to do something I never do -- buy a bottle before I'd experienced a full wearing of the scent. I haven't smelled this beautiful and strange minerally powder accord in any other iris perfume before, and I've tried most of them.

Unfortunately, the long lasting base note in this seems to amp up on my skin after a few hours in a rather unpleasant way. It's an unrelenting woody freshness, as though the smell of an entire laundry soap aisle of a grocery store is projecting off of my wrist. After a few hours of only this note shrieking at me full volume I find it hard to love this scent.

Those who are either partially anosmic to this base or who find it pleasant won't mind, but for me L'Attesa went from a sweet symphony to a fog horn.

03/16/2023

8
Sillage 8
Longevity 6
Scent

Quailist
10 Reviews

Quailist

2

Bleach in my bubble bath

Potent citrus-iris-moss composition, so bright and sharp that you can almost hear it squeak.

L'Attesa has a lot going for it. The prominence of the iris. The strength of its fizzy first impression. The cool, detached, angular, slightly melancholic vibe. The evocation of cleanliness without veering into dreaded "freshie" territory. The excellent performance: it projects wildly for the first two to three hours and clings to fabric like mad.

I wanted to like L'Attesa more than I did, but the aforementioned sharpness ended up being the downfall of the fragrance for me. A few hours in, I felt fatigued by this relentless harshness, as if someone had tipped a cap full of bleach into my bubble bath.

With that said, I would probably enjoy smelling this on someone else – at a safe distance – and recommend that iris enthusiasts give it a try.

03/31/2025

7
Sillage 7
Longevity 6.5
Scent

Raluko111
380 Reviews

Raluko111

2

Flat Champagne

As a great lover of irises, I thought that L'Attesa and I would at least understand each other, and more, that we would love each other, or at least like each other. Unfortunately, L'Attesa disappointed me a bit. The opening was promising, the same fragrant sawdust from Shameless Seducer which unfortunately turned into the choking and cold dust of Iris silver mist, an iris with whom I have a contentious relationship. I waited impatiently to discover what the champagne would add, but no trace of the bubbly! The smell was sour and harsh, like a glass of brut champagne forgotten on a table after New Year's Eve, only flat and bitter.

The story has a happy ending, however: I recently discovered the most beautiful champagne iris, which has everything I'd searched in vain for in L'Attesa, Pink Champagne.

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Ca mare iubitoare de iriși, am crezut nu că o să ne înțelegem, dar că o să ne iubim, sau măcar să ne plăcem una pe cealaltă. Din păcate, L'Attesa m-a cam dezamăgit. Deschiderea a fost promițătoare, același rumeguș parfumat din Shameless Seducer care din păcate s-a transformat în praful înecăcios și rece din Iris silver mist, un iris cu care am o relație conflictuală. Am așteptat cu nerăbdare să descopăr ce va adăuga șampania, dar nici urmă de bulbuci! Mirosul era acru și aspru, ca o cupă de șampanie uitată pe o masă după noaptea de revelion, doar plat și amar.

Povestea are totuși un happy ending: recent am descoperit cel mai frumos iris cu șampanie, care reprezintă tot ce căutasem în zadar în L'Attesa, Pink Champagne.

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