Nicolaï Parfumeur-Createur Caravansérail Intense (photo courtesy of the brand)
In 2014 I had the great honor of interviewing Patricia de Nicolaï as she celebrated the 25th anniversary of Nicolaï Parfumeur Createur as an independent niche perfumery brand, her remarkable career as a perfumer and the First Woman President of the Osmotheque. Today, nine years later, ÇaFleureBon has the pleasure of announcing the official launch of Nicolaï Parfumeur-Createur Caravansérail Intense which will debut in the Nicolaï Parfumeur-Createur Boutiques, online and stockists worldwide on February 6, 2023.
It is the house’s first woody gourmand and inspired by the history and hospitality of the Levant. Since we don’t post press releases and want to give our readers behind the scenes insights, I asked Madame de Nicolaï about the new Cologne Intense. She graciously shared her creative process.
Patricia de Nicolaï has been an independent perfumer and founded her own brand in 1989 (Photo Credit: Madame Patricia de Nicolaï) ©
“I visited the Middle East many times and I’m always surprised by the very warm and welcoming Arabic sense of hospitality. Especially when they offer you coffee! The Arabic coffee is so unique, it’s a wonderful mixture of Arabica beans and spices such as cardamom and Tonka beans. I really appreciate that smell and it was time for me to create a fragrance inspired by these notes. It’s a path I really wanted to go through as I realize that I did not really have a woody gourmand in my collection of fragrances.
When I started to work on the new Nicolaï Parfumeur Createur Caravansérail Intense, the challenge for me was to transform this typical spicy coffee flavor into a perfume. To do so, I built a top note using coffee absolute, cardamom essence and some fruity plum facets. Then I decided to support this first impression by a woody patchouli and sandalwood heart all completed by dry amber base notes like Ambrocenide and Ambroxan. The name Caravansérail came at the end and it was so obvious! During the Middle-Ages a caravanserai was an inn developed throughout the Middle-East where travelers of the Silk and Spices routes used to rest after long and hard journeys. It was a safe place on which they also used to trade and get information of the world. It was a place of hospitality and this is really the characteristic of that fragrance”–Patricia de Nicolaï, January 13, 2023, exclusively for ÇaFleureBon.
Top: Coffee absolue, plum, raspberry; Middle: Cardamom Essence, Clove Essence, Cinnamon Essence, Patchouli heart essence, Sandalwood essence; Base: Vanilla absolute, tonka absolute, immortelle absolute
Nicolaï Parfumeur Createur-Caravansérail Intense will be in the “Intense Collection” and has Eau de Parfum concentration
(photo courtesy of the brand)
Suggested Retail:
250 ml: 357 EUR ($407 USD)
100 ml: 204 EUR ($233USD)
30 ml: 68 EUR ($78 USD)
Michelyn Camen, Editor in Chief
ÇaFleureBon has announced the launches of Nicolaï Parfumeur-Createur’s new fragrances since 2014, including Cuir Cuba Intense 2014, Musc Monoi also in 2014, 2015 L’eau Corail, Patchouli Sublime in 2017, Neroli Intense 2018, Cap Neroli 2018, 2019’s Nicolaï Parfumeur-Createur Baïkal Leather Intense and Angelys Pear, 2020’s Eau de Yuzu, 2021’s Poudre de Musc, and 2022’s Riviera Verbena.
2024 will mark Nicolaï Parfumeur-Createur’s 35th year as an independent brand.
“A note from the brand: ”A link between several lands, Caravansérail Intense is a stopover at the crossing of the coffee and spice roads. A historic site of hospitality not far from arid deserts, pioneer explorers and traveling souls are welcomed by a hot, addictive traditional coffee whose swirls reveal the fresh facets of cardamom seeds. Fruity, sweet notes enhance this divine mixture delicately sprinkled with cinnamon and cloves, while a duo of patchouli heart and sandalwood provides a woody intensity. Finally, the powerful sandstorm of dry amber notes highlights immortelle, vanilla and tonka bean.”
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