Nina Ricci Snow Princess

She is beautiful, gracious, a touch romantic, and she knows by heart the beauty reflexes that will give her velvety eyes and a porcelain complexion, plus... she has character. There is no point spinning her yarns about paradise or Prince Charming: she might like fairy tales, but she prefers to experience them herself. Her name? Nina. But, for the moment, everyone calls her Snow Princess. And for good reason: she plays at making the seasons blossom, according to her moods. And, today, it’s winter! Rubbing one of the windows of her Paris apartment with her pretty, gloved hand, Nina makes a multitude of crystals appear by magic, masking a mysterious landscape. Then, all she has to do is open the pane to discover the silence of a snowy forest. The trees, sprinkled with airy flakes, reveal their golden leaves, while, on the snow-covered ground, the gold of perfectly spherical toffee apples scintillates in the light. Here, between fluffy outlines and crystalline halos, whiteness redraws the contours of a dream, in which all the shades of white, satiny, silvery, opalescent, pay homage to silence, punctuated by the delicate crunch of the footfalls of our snow princess. In a burst of romanticism, she celebrates winter and the promise of festivities by choosing the “colour of elegance”, as Nina Ricci put it: white. Thus, her apple-bottle is clad in a pearly, scintillating white, heightened by the gold of its three leaves. As for the fragrance created by Olivier Cresp, its indulgent bouquet sheds sunlight onto this snowy season: Calabria lemon and Caipirinha lime hum a refrain, while taking by the hand a delicious trio in which toffee apple, infused vanilla and praline intertwine… before vanishing in a cloud mingling apple-wood, soft musk and white cedar. Continuing this stroll through a landscape dedicated to all the winters, from the most exotic of them to the most Parisian, this limited edition comes in a fairylike case. Weightlessly, the white and gold bottle reveals itself behind a diaphanous halo, surrounded by gold and silver crystals…