Floridly ebullient rose fragrances are plentiful and easily found – but an audacious, challenging-to-encapsulate rose is an aromatic rarity, and Atelier Materi Rose Ardoise falls into that select category.
Givaudan perfumer Dalia Izem has created a genderless fragrance that is said to be inspired by classic French porcelain. Certainly, there is a delicate sheen to Iris Porcelana that makes me think of Sevres plates, and a careful but unobtrusive classical construction.
Essential Parfums Fig Infusion composed by Nathalie Lorson under the creative direction of Geraldine Archambault pays homage to the earthy, green and soothing facets of fig, which evoke spring. A welcome rebirth during these dark winter months
Zoologist Perfumes Chipmunk by Pia Long is yet another Zoologist animal portrait, painted with precision and vivid imagination.
Roses can be sweet, spicy, woody, fruity, aromatic, woody but they are rarely paired with a hefty pinch of salt. Maison Crivelli Rose Saltifolia composed by Stephanie Bakouche is precisely that.
The central ingredient to each perfume in the collection is the ‘muscs enigmatiques’ accord, a cocktail of musks. Carnal and animalic, thus the ‘modus operandi’ is clear – perfume as a language of seduction, a license to love just like Jeroboam Ambra
