Anat Fritz of Anat Fritz Perfumes courtesy of Anat Fritz ©
Anat Fritz Tzora was created in 2012 by knitwear and fragrance designer Anat Fritz in collaboration with the renowned perfumer Geza Schoen. Tzora, and the beautiful new revision of the designer’s first fragrance Classical (reviewed recently by Cafleurebon Senior Editor Ida Meister), are both current in the Anat Fritz line. Even after seven years Tzora remains one of my all time favorite perfumes – a fragrance I feel comfortable wearing for any occasion and in every season.
Anat Fritz Tzora, close up of bottle in morning light. Photo by Gail Gross ©
For Valentine’s Day 2017, Cafleurebon editors and contributors were asked to write about some of the Sexiest Scents they have experienced. Anat Fritz Tzora immediately came to my mind as a perfume that attracts all kinds of people and elicits spontaneous compliments, a fragrance that is an “ice-breaker” and a mood lifter. In addition to the attraction quotient and the pull on those in my immediate vicinity, Tzora continues to have an amazing effect on my own psyche. Anat Fritz Tzora simply makes me happy and happiness, laughter and joy can easily “…be as attractive and irresistible as the steamy beauty of a femme fatale or the dark eroticism of the sexual vampire.” (I’m quoting myself here.)
Gail’s first bottle of Anat Fritz Tzora. Photo by Gail Gross ©
So, besides evoking an ebullient happiness, what is it about Anat Fritz Tzora that prompted me to use up every sample I could lay my hands on, buy my own bottle and subsequently drain that to the last drop (a rare event, as I have so much perfume to choose from)?
Geza Schoen in 2012 from CaFleureBon
Let me begin with the perfumer. Geza Schoen’s groundbreaking olfactory creations have, over the years, been some of my most favored fragrances. His signature style is evident in his own Escentric Molecules and A Beautiful Mind Series; his versatility evidenced by his work for numerous niche brands, including, but not limited to, Biehl Parfumkunstwerke, Boudicca, Clive Christian and Ormande Jayne Four Corners Series. Geza Schoen, known for sparkling, unisex woody aromatics and breezy fresh florals, proved to be the perfect interpreter of Anat Fritz’ dreams and the memories of her favorite summer-time vacation destination, Kibbutz T’zora, 20k from Jerusalem. “When I smelled it,” Anat Fritz commented, ” I immediately associated that powerful little landscape with it. The lusciousness, bold, citrusy, peppery, woodsy, earthy scent you can find there as well. It became an ode to that piece of nature which embodies freedom, clarity, authenticity and self-confidence to me – even a bit of attitude! “
Woman By A Window by Richard Edward Miller©
Wearing Anat Fritz Tzora is like opening a window onto a warm and sunny hillside garden, letting in the fresh morning air. I breathe deeply the scents of the wild and cultivated herbs and flowers that rustle the tulle curtains. A grove of sweet and bitter orange trees releases perfumes of citrus leaves and fruit into the dry sunshine of the garden, already vibrant with the radiant, rosy shimmer of Peruvian pepper. From the first Anat Fritz Tzora offers so many of my favorite notes, expertly woven (knitted!) together. The green, minty, boozy tang of cassis and the sweet, herbaceous, soft tobacco notes of clary sage are seamlessly married to transparent suggestions of jasmine, osmanthus and aromatic woods. Through the course of the day the dry morning sunshine that is Tzora evolves into an afternoon of wet magnolia blossoms and green cedarwood that rests on hints of rich earth, rooted in sweet, grassy vetiver and resinous patchouli. At sunset I close the window for the evening, still sensing the pink pepper and the presence of distant cedars.
Anat Fritz Tzora in the garden. Photo by Gail Gross ©
My experience of Anat Fritz Tzora is at once restrained, invigorating and provocative, lasting at least eight hours on skin and easily twenty-four on clothing. As darkness falls, moss and musk breathe sighs of satisfaction – and verdant happiness – into the still night air.
Notes:Orange, cassis, clary sage, bergamot, Peruvian pepper, magnolia, osmanthus, jasmine, cedarwood, vetiver, patchouli, musk and moss.
Disclaimer: I would like to thank Anat Fritz for my new, cherished and soon to be used-up bottle of Tzora. My opinions are my own.
Gail Gross – Senior Editor
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