Patricia de Nicolai, established her House Parfums de Nicolai in 1989 and has never been one to follow what is trendy. Oud or agarwood as a note and an important ingredient seems here to stay in Western Perfumery. Madame de Nicolai is using oud in a perfume for the first time since the Company's inception, while remaining faithful to her elegant signatures style. Rose Oud and Amber Oud are the first two EDPs in what will be an OUD collection.
‘I have created perfumes using the oud – or agarwood – because I wanted to enrich my collection of powerful and high running fragrances’ explains Patricia de Nicolaï. ‘With this extraordinary richness of the essence of agarwood, sign of purification in the Middle-East, I wanted to associate, for one of the two new perfumes, an amber combination and for the other, a rose combination.’
Amber Oud
Top: Lavender, thyme, sage, davana
Heart: Cinnamon, Saffron, Agarwood, Atlas Cedarwood, Sandalwood, Patchouli
Base: vanilla, tonka bean, amber, musk, styrax, castoreum
Editor's Note: Madame de Nicolai and her husband Jean-Louis Michau will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of Parfums de Nicolai in 2014.
Rose Oud
Top: Raspberry, Davana, Osmanthus
Heart: Rose, lily of the valley
Base: Agarwood, amber, musk, styrax, castoreum ,patchouli
Amber Oud and Rose Oud will be available in 30 ml and 100 ml
Launching November at twistedlily.com
via de Nicolai and Twisted Lily
–Michelyn Camen, Editor in Chief