To reintroduce the Amouage attars, Chief Experience Officer Renaud Salmon selected Cécile Zarokian along with two other master perfumers, Dominique Ropion and Julien Rasquinet, and challenged each to pair a star ingredient with an olfactive interpretation of the Omani landscape.
It was Easter Sunday 1974, and I was at church with my grandmother. It was a beautiful spring day, and after the service I joined the other children there for the annual Easter Egg hunt. There were many brightly colored eggs hidden throughout the yard, but the ultimate goal was to find the one and only golden egg.
Vilhelm Parfumerie Fleur Burlesque composed by Jerome Epinette captures the sensory indulgence of the fin de siècle.
Masque Milano Sleight of Fern (Stephanie Bakouche) and Masque Milano White Whale (Christian Alori) conclude the brand’s Opera perfumes. From a classical Fougere to the olfactive story of Moby Dick, they are the 15th and 16th
Aedes De Venustas Kumquat Corfu composed by Firminich Perfumer Ilias Ermenidis, is sophisticated and realistic: heady, acerbic, smelling of citrus rind and faraway.
What is blue matcha? I have heard of green matcha tea in perfume (Le Labo The Matcha 26), but not the blue variety. Interestingly, it’s made not from tea leaves but from made from the dried and crushed petals of the butterfly pea flower which are ground into a fine powder that are blue in color. Montale Blue Matcha is a tea inspired fragrance that doesn’t smell like most tea-based perfumes
