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.
What are feel good perfumes? They can be calming, grounding, meditative, uplifting and even used in some cultures as an aphrodisiac and often contain ingredients such as lavender, bergamot, chamomile, citrus, frankincense, jasmine, rose, mint and vanilla
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.
Céline Rimbaud is undoubtedly at the level of its nine predecessors and of an astonishing sophistication despite a traditional composition on paper, using raw materials of exceptional quality and benefiting from a real work of goldsmith (this is how I will nickname the mystery perfumer). Having tested many beautiful perfumes over the years, it is seldom that I have encountered such a perfect collection. Artistic Director Hedi Slimane has created a symphony of perfumes that are as similar as they are different. The DNA of Celine is in each and every one. The term “Haute Parfumerie” was perfectly chosen as the name of these remarkable fragrances, and Celine Rimbaud is the poem that was well worth the wait.
Onskad 30’ composed by Léa Hiram by is a complex composition, at the same time woody, tobacco, leathery, floral, balmy and powdery.
Les Parfumeurs du Monde Androgyne 16020 is an absolutely fearless leather chypre, a perfume which defies gender classification in its quest for truth and realism inspired by Amelia Earhart who became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland on January 11, 1935
