Sarah Baker Far From the Madding Crowd, Charade, and Symmetry
Choices, choices! Depending on your mood, atmosphere, occasion, intention, or just random grab-and-go? Options of choosing three different fragrances from Sarah Baker Perfumes have grown with the most recent S.Baker Collection, featuring five new Eau de Parfums created by different perfumers: Bascule – Ashley Eden Kessler, Flame & Fortune – Sarah Baker, G Clef – Sarah Baker, Symmetry – Chris Maurice, and Far From the Madding Crowd – Miguel Matos. There’s something else absolutely new: were created by Sarah Baker herself! You are maybe already familiar with the Extrait Collection by Sarah Baker so I’ve included one Extrait that’s not much talked about, and I’ll tell you why I think it deserves bright spotlights and applause.
Sarah Baker, photo by Sarah Baker
Let’s take a closer look at these three you should be wearing,(and why):
still from the 1963 movie Charade
Sarah Baker Perfumes Charade / Andreas Wilhelm: Let’s get classical and well-groomed like a 1950s movie star, even if it’s an illusion created by perfume only (and even if you’re attending your Zoom meetings following the business dress-code from the waist up, and with comfy slippers on your feet – as I do). Charade is a tuberose-on-leather chypre, spelling timeless elegance, black-and-white movies, Carry Grant and Audrey Hepburn, a humble polo neck turned iconic, and the allure of quintessential gentleman. Even at home, even in your PJ’s. Raise your hand if you’re missing being or just feeling elegant, or better yet, spray some Charade on! Sarah Baker Charade greets you with flirty tuberose while white flowers giggle behind its back, and then it melts your heart with a thin layer of ylang-ylang and honey. The leather is rather grainy and rough but what it achieves is that its animalic embraces all the tuberose’s indolic in a movie-like romantic/dramatic scene followed by green depths of inevitable romance between patchouli and moss. Forever elegant, expressive, and never forgotten: this dashing chypre was made for making a statement. Even if no one else is around, impress yourself. You will be sporting that Carry Grant signature smile immediately. Notes: French Tubereuse, Ylang-Ylang, Styrax, Benzoin Siam, Leather, Patchouly, Honey, Sandalwood, Amber, Vetiver, Moss.
Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe Edouard Manet
Sarah Baker Perfumes Far From The Madding Crowd / Miguel Matos: Close your eyes and enter a pastoral landscape like the ones you can find on 19th-century paintings, where nature is a comforting source of overall wellbeing. Hidden spots where lovers meet, picturesque meadows, well-kept lawns, and endless orchards with ripe fruits. Gardens of Eden on Earth. Ah, the sensuality of nature, the thrill of hiding behind veils of green, and the sheer joy of being in the fresh air! A tempting call coming from Far From the Madding Crowd invites you for a walk through crisp countryside air filled with an air of bergamot freshness hovering over the green-green grass of home. A straight-to-the-point and welcoming feeling, one that you would hungrily breathe in, filling your lungs fully as joy of life throbs through your entire body.
It’s the eucalyptus that plays an interesting role in this accord, giving it a touch of minty freshness on one side and Mediterranean herbs on the other, and a slight touch of spices provides depth. Flowers are a part of this idyllic scenery, rounding and completing it in a gentle way. Just as your senses grow accustomed to all this vivid and youthful greenery, ripe fruits chime in. Fruit-bearing branches are bending to the ground under the weight of juicy, ripe fruits. Somewhere in this orchard, there’s a jasmine blooming, hidden in shades and calling you to come closer. Miguel’s jasmine seems to always carry a carnal breath to the composition, and so this landscape changes. As you move away from your lovely and oh-so-decent picnic blanket set upon the soft green grass, you enter the shades, juices of ripe fruits picked from a tree and eaten with lust trickle down your chin, and a more sensual feeling emerges, filled with animalic tones. A beautiful flora and fauna drydown follows, infused by well-blended musks and oakmoss. Much more complicated than it might seem at first sniff, Sarah Baker Perfumes Far From the Madding Crowd is an intricate and emotional journey between light and dark, sense and sensibility, and it’s exciting every step of the way. Notes: Heliotrope, Bergamot, Petitgrain, Eucalyptus, Black Cassis, Myrtle, Plum, Jasmine, Cedar, Castoreum, Musk, Oakmoss
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Sarah Baker Perfumes S.Baker Symmetry/ Chris Maurice: Proportion and balance, in nature and in human relationships: things you immediately FEEL on subconscious levels, like empathy, reciprocity, or sympathy. Or in relation to aesthetics, like the immediate attractiveness of bilateral symmetry. Preferably approximate, and with enough complexity to keep things interesting. But instead of being in perfect symmetry, Symmetry feels to me more like a play of searching for, and finding – balance. What Chris Maurice has created reminds me of the two faces of Janus – the god of transitions, duality, doorways, and gates: it all depends on which one you’ll enter. Luckily, with Symmetry, you can’t go wrong.
Almost at first, you can feel two things seemingly opposite: the freshness of citruses meeting the depths of oud, with a whole array of push-and-pull sensations straight from the beginning. Sarah Baker Perfumes Symmetry is not as much a story about clearly defined contrasts, but rather seeking and finding balance. What impressed me the most is that this is a multifunctional perfume – while it may seem that it performs as a cologne at first and that it can perform the best in warmer weather, it delivers the blast of citruses tainted with traces of oud from the very beginning! This is not just a cologne, by no means. The smoothness and depths of oud with some amber is in fine balance with a cat-eyed green cypriol, with the warm-skin musky tones enveloping you closely in the drydown. Don’t let this oud scare you, it plays its role perfectly, showing up in different stages of development where it should be, doing what it should do to assure that you are fully enveloped in a very cozy fruity-musky fragrant cocoon, soaked in oud-colored warmth that’s bound to perform a different play in every season in the year. Although this collection features Eau de Parfum concentrations, longevity and projection are above average, and these citruses seem to carry on forever and ever, to the bottom, just as oud moves all the way to the top! Symmetry is energetic and soothing at the same time: finding balance in life matters. Notes: Bergamot, Petitgrain, Neroli, Orange Blossom, Amber, Cypriol, Musk, Oud.
Elena Cvjetkovic, Editor and Author of The Plum Girl
Disclaimer: Sarah Baker Perfumes and S. Baker Collection samples were kindly provided by Sarah Baker for my consideration. Opinions are – as always – my own.
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