Completely singular. A masterwork in niche fragrance. Oysters and butter with a subtle undercurrent of salty, briny, fatty lactonics. It is a fragrance of briny shellfish and salty butter created as a tribute to award-winning Italian seafood chef Mauro Uliassi. Miss Tranchant is an oriental vanilla fragrance that launched in 2015. A very unusual fragrance that you need to try! With notes of oysters, butter, saffron and salt. Miss Tranchant is an eau de parfum, edp.
HILDE SOLIANI MISS TRANCHANT REVIEWS
Fragrantica: “To me, this is Hilde Soliani’s masterwork. As an avid lover of salty food, I’ve always believed it could serve as an inspiration for complex, challenging, deep fragrances. When I tell you I have never been as excited about perfume, I am serious. Both butter and oysters are pretty straightforward in the opening, but in no way does Miss Tranchant smell cartoonish, grotesque, or unwearable. It hits you with an aura of sacred female sensuality, turns heads, makes people curious, and leaves them transfixed. Longevity is crazy. Sometimes wearing it is too much for me. If I’m not absolutely in my element, I’m having a hard time with its depth. This perfume asks for all your concentration and confidence in order to be pulled off, but in a good way. Miss Tranchant is an inspiring work of art that any perfume adventurer should try.”
Fragrantica: "Yes - ocean meets butter. I get no fish/seafood. Instead, it’s a realistic, cool, oceanic freshness and the warm, comforting coat of butter. It’s a perfect combination. Very enjoyable- definitely FB worthy for me."
Fragrantica: "Very butter and slight iodine with a decent longevity. That butter smells delicioouuuuus, the marine notes are kind of off putting in an addictive way…. when it’s really hot, it smells like Korean hotteok syrup ie caramelized sugar syrup mixed with nuts! Crazy fragrance lol. Also noteworthy that Soliani talks about this one as one of her masterpieces. It’s not my personal favorite but I enjoy understanding what she’s after in a holy grail scent."
Fragrantica: "Ramshackle wooden pier, salt-bleached planks sea wrack rot, shifting scrim of slate sky. Miss Akranes contest, bright bunting wilting in salt spray and sea mist, dripping gown and cracked rubber boots. Icy rain of butter and brine, each drop a tiny oyster on the tongue. Fishing nets of pearl grey silk tangled with kelp and hollow percussions of fish bones; the iodine tang of seaweed rotting in tide pools where lobster traps rust and seashell sibilance gurgles, whispers, salted and cured. Sea glass teeth, crowns of crab shell, scepter of driftwood and whalebone. Something ancient stirs beneath the harbor, pageantry for drowned gods."
Fragrantica: "I was expecting to hate this sample but it’s actually really beautiful and wearable. It smells like creamy rich butter with salt. I would purchase a larger decant of this. It’s very intriguing but not weird at all to me. It’s actually very sexy."
Fragrantica: "I can't begin to describe my obsession with this. Yes, there's butter and oysters, but it's surprisingly sweet with some layer of vanilla, but not overpowering. This is, at least for me, a true my skin but better scent. Like a fresh baby's head. I got a sample from scent split and immediately added it to my cart. I can't stop smelling myself. I think pairing this with another more mineral scent, or something with tobacco accords would balance out some of the sweetness."
Fragrantica: "Unsurprisingly sexy.... this perfume confirmed for me that oysters are an aphrodisiac. Salty, briny... a perfectly milky marine scent. If anyone can pull it off, it's Hilde Soliani. Sadly longevity and sillage are weak but it's a nice intimate scent, perfect for private fascination. It's not really fishy--more of a seaweed and cream smell to it...."
