Collage for Parfum d’Empire Un Bel Amour D’été by Danu – Lea Khreiss, Farrinni, Shifaaz Shamoon, Yoann Boyer – Unsplash

“The dreamy days and sticky nights of summer were already calling, as if anything could happen.” ― C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House

Marc-Antoine Corticchiato courtesy of the brand

It was my pleasure to finally encounter Parfum d’Empire and Marc-Antoine Corticchiato at Esxence this year and then again during the several days of Paris Perfume Week in late March. I was able to hear him speak of his journey with a house that is now almost 21 years old, one understands his deep connection to the art, to his interpretations and to the noble materials. A man constantly challenged and challenging his creation of perfume. I was also honoured to be a guest at his atelier in Paris, an unforgettable experience.

Collage by Danu – Alexander Krivitskiy, Christopher Campbell, Tom Parsons, Roberto Nickson – unsplash

Parfum d’Empire Un Bel Amour D’été ignites a tender memory, it traverses my body, tinged with youthful abandon and careless airs. Endless days that spread in layers on heated sands, the air warm and salted from its intimate encounters with the sea. Water laps at my bronzed feet and sand caresses my toes. A freedom rises in me as the memory surfaces, it was forever written into my fabric, that tale of a first surrender to love and passion. The memory is as unchanged as in that very moment, prompted by this scent of arousal, Un Bel Amour D’été, is carnal and pure in its innocence at the same time.  The very first time that a look can generate a flush upon the skin, a touch to race through my body, a scent of the other and our union that sets my heart to race. It is as the French say a veritable ‘coup de coeur’!

Parfum d’Empire Un Bel Amour D’été is the intense summer love that never truly ends for its stays embedded deep within, the discoveries of our entwining physicality, sensual and urgent, as if to touch, kiss, sense forever. Time ceases and moments become hours and hours fly with wings into night after night, day after day submerged deeply within the other, an eternity carved into a few precious weeks. This perfume is alluring and addictive, a love that fills every crevice of time, it whispers, ‘I cannot have enough of you.’

Collage by Danu – Shraddha Kulkarni, Evie S, Sonika Agarwal, Parker Sturdivant, Erinada Valpurgieva – unsplash

Blooming under the vastness of blue, a voluptuous and intoxicating bouquet of narcotic florals embrace the madness of this encounter and its wild intoxication, a gardenia headspace chord, especially worked by Marc-Antoine Corticchiato to enhance the extreme sensuality of this bloom, is the perfumed scent of a woman’s passion, deeply sexual, in a tryst with a fully blown magnolia, sundering herself to the sun.  An erotic combination of champaca and a unctuous and decadent Ylang Ylang leads to pulses racing. A lightly warmed odour of arousal is given free rein with the addition of cumin and turmeric, an addition that heats the skin. Amorous and libertine without constraint.

“This is how we dreamed. Moonlight in our mouths, love on our lips and summer in our skies.” ― Marie-Kristin Hofmann, Remember the wild girl

One clearly perceives the exhilarating fire that erupts in the confines of the flesh, barely contained and yielding to expression.  The scent of tender desire ignited with a longing that consumes, that must be consummated over and over again, in the face of an eternity that is fleeting. There is no hesitation to this surrendering in which both are complicit.  The cumin and turmeric dance wildly on my skin mimicking a blush and rendering the floral intensity into a languorous state yet with an appetite for more.

Vidar Nordli Mathise- Unsplash

In combination with a creamy, sun kissed vanilla and sandalwood, days and nights of hedonistic pleasure, rising and falling in the sun and the seas rhythms, I am intoxicated and fiercely, madly in love. All is vast and in concentrated attention in the same breath, this perfume rises and falls upon me as your fingers trace ribbons upon my surface, leaving ripples of floral pleasure adrift in patterns of love on my oiled landscape. Over time it suffuses me in swaths of creamy contentment, satiated remnants drift over me, I wish to douse myself over and over, reliving such intensity of youth and reclaiming that young girl across the chasm’s of time, she still exists. Parfum d’Empire Un Bel Amour D’été is a summer scent par excellence, it sends my senses reeling and undoes me in both past and present. Profoundly, blushingly erotic and a pleasure (no need to elaborate, use your imaginations). A radiant bliss in a bottle.  I guarantee in wearing this, there will be flushed faces and stirred memories in your wake. It will without doubt top lists of the new releases of 2024. A masterpiece.

“When she remembered a summer, it would be this one. When she remembered love it would be his.” ― C.J. Carlyon. The Cherry House

Notes: Champaca, Ylang Ylang, Vanilla, Sandalwood, Gardenia, Tumeric, Cumin, Magnolia.

Danu Seith-Fyr, Contributor

My gracious thanks to  the team at Parfum d’Empire and Marc-Antoine Corticchiato for the gift of Un Bel Amour D’été.

 Parfum D’Empire Un Bel Amour D’été courtesy of the brand

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