Created by the peerless Jean-Claude Ellena, Amouage Dia Woman, little sister to Amouage Gold Woman, is a spirited, soapy-powdery floral with touches of fruit and herbs that has both a timeless quality and an old soul.
Depending on what it is mixed with, ambergris can smell saline, animalic, ambery, mineral, fresh/ozonic, sweet, musky, earthy, … well, you get the picture. For this reason, and due to its prohibitive cost, ambergris is usually used as a background material to amplify its partners or replaced with a synthetic version. But not in Les Indemodables Ambre Supreme. Created by master perfumer Antoine Lie, Ambre Supreme contains a walloping 10% dosage of the real deal, specially sourced and tinctured for the brand. The resulting fragrance glows like a topaz in candlelight; incandescent, warm, refractory and very elegant.
Amouage, founded in 1983 by the royal household of Oman, launched Amouage Gold Woman as its inaugural fragrance. Perfumer extraordinaire Guy Robert was lured to create it with promises of creative freedom and a bottomless account with which to make what Robert himself would consider his masterpiece. It is a scintillating, heart-flutteringly beautiful fragrance,
One of the highlights of Aedes Perfumery is its Aedes de Venustas line, a collection of nine eaux de parfum created by some of the world’s greatest noses in concert with the store’s founders. While Iris Nazarena and Copal D’Azur are well-known in perfumista circles, Aedes de Venustas Signature, Palissandre Pelargonium and Palissandre D’Or are three that are often overlooked
Aedes de Venustas Encens Japonais is as cozy and lovely as the golden sparkle of Christmas lights. As the fire logs glow into embers, night wanes into morning, the aromas of fruit and flowers, wood and incense, leather and coffee, dance in the air. My heart feels home.
The experience of Aedes de Venustas 16a Orchard is a bit like getting lost in a modern art gallery where all the exhibits are watercolour. The notes shimmer individually then merge, separating and joining in a continuous loop that makes me think of Calder’s elegantly kinetic pieces. Frank Voelkl has created a perfectly pitched composition in which is bright and scintillant one moment, dreamy and hazy the next. Its feel is neither urban nor nature but both.
