Matière Première French Flower Review (Aurélien Guichard) 2022 + the Grasse tuberose giveaway

Matière Première French Flower review

For Matière Première French Flower, Aurélien Guichard featured French tuberose, highly floral and elegant, an homage to the diva of the perfume world. Using the costly French tuberose absolute and the time consuming pre 21st century art of enfleurage using tuberoses gathered from his own field, Matière Première French Flower celebrates tuberose in its most sensual and breath-taking beauty, with the signature sophisticated touch specific to all of the brand’s perfumes.

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Christèle Jacquemin Underworld Review (Christele Jacquemin) + Breaking from Darkness Into Light Draw

Christele Jaquemin Underworld Review

Christèle Jacquemin Underworld is an arrestingly lovely, spicy incense perfume with deliciously quirky notes inspired by by photographs Jacquemin took during frequent trips between Barcelona where she was living and Paris. When she left Spain, her home of 17 years, to pursue perfumery in France, the period of transition left her “between shadows and lights.” She then “worked to translate this feeling of intertwined fears and hopes into a scent.

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