Queening by Mind Games

Queening by Mind Games is a unisex Extrait de Parfum that combines clean cotton, crisp apple, creamy orris, aged rum, saffron, whipped vanilla, coconut, and soft musk. Released in 2023 and created by perfumer Christelle Laprade, this amber woody fragrance is presented in a 3.4 oz / 100 ml spray bottle. Mind Games describes Queening as a celebration of overcoming challenges and emerging stronger, with a comforting vanilla-rum profile designed around softness, confidence, and renewal. The fragrance opens with a clean cotton accord, aromatic cypress, and fresh apple. The cotton accord creates an airy, freshly laundered impression, while apple adds a crisp fruity quality and cypress contributes a subtle green-woody edge. Its heart develops with powdery orris, aged rum, and saffron. Orris gives the fragrance a smooth, elegant softness, while rum adds warmth and a gently boozy sweetness. Saffron introduces a dry, softly spicy contrast. The drydown blends whipped vanilla bean with fluffy musk and coconut. Vanilla creates a creamy gourmand foundation, coconut adds a soft tropical-lactonic quality, and musk gives the fragrance a smooth, enveloping finish. Queening has a powdery, vanilla, coconut, musky, fruity, floral, woody, and softly boozy scent profile. It is suitable for everyday wear, date nights, evenings, special occasions, and year-round use, with particular appeal during fall, winter, and cooler spring weather.