Our take
What does Pleasures smell like?
Pleasures arrived in 1995, at the height of the sheer-floral wave. Annie Buzantian and Alberto Morillas set out to capture a living bouquet still wet with dew. The opening is green and faintly peppery: violet leaf brings its cucumber-and-cut-stem freshness, green notes add sap, and pink pepper a bright tingle. The heart gathers rose, peony and lily in a cool, almost watery register where petals feel translucent. The base of softened patchouli, sandalwood and white musk stays quiet and clean, just present enough to hold the bouquet on skin. It chases neither heavy seduction nor mystery, but a kind of instant wellbeing that is very much of its era.
When to wear it
A daytime scent for spring and summer, at work or on a walk; it charms fans of fresh, bright, barely sweet florals.
It belongs to the Floral family. Pleasures is one of 3 creations by Estée Lauder in our encyclopedia.
