Amouage Epic Woman co created by Cecile Zarokian in 2009 is laden with spice, exquisite roses, tea, musk, frankincense, sandalwood and oud
The effect of Indult Paris My Ju-Ju is that of a magnificent meringue wreathed in a white floral cloud spiked with coffee, pillowy with weightless musks and wispy amber.
Sanae Intoxicants Nightcap transports me to an exotic, majestic desert landscape. It is night – the sky is absolutely clear, moonless, and awash with a spectacle of infinite stars.
It is testament to Vanina Muracciole’s talent that she has created a perfume that can both surprise and enrapture in equal measure. It is a scent that takes you by surprise and by the end one is transfixed in its luxurious and tempting nature. Jeroboam Ambra truly is a ‘Smooth Operator’ – an original and stirring take on the fantasy musk accord we think we know so well.
Senyoko Une Île Pluvieuse (meaning “a rainy island”) is inspired by Yukio Mishima’s 1950s novella The Sound of Waves (Shiosai).
Inspired by her teen years in Valliguières, a village in Southern France, Christèle Jacquemin Memory Lane is a “Proustian Madeleine gourmand” with alternating contrasting layers between the light-as cloud meringue vanilla and the dark oud and Nagarmotha. It’s complex, complicated, bittersweet, and ambivalent – like any return home
