Fragrance Family:
Woody Amber

Notes:
Bergamot, Orange, Cassis, Lavender, Coriander, Iris Butter, Rose, Angelica, Cinnamon, Ambergris, Castoreum, Oud, Sandalwood, Cedarwood, Benzoin, Peru Balsam

Concentration:
Extrait de Parfum

Occasion:
An oud fragrance that melts into soft iris butter: a perfume of fine ingredients that can be worn all day and all night.

Francesca’s Inspiration:
“I have always been fascinated by contaminations from different cultures, giving birth to new forms – called syncretistic, eclectic: to me, a new deviant marvel. I remember my enchantment for the exotic and mysterious Pseudo-Arabic scripts in the halos of some Renaissance painting focused on a quintessential character of Christian culture and yet contaminated by a reference to Arabic culture. Or the incredible syncretistic forms such as Greek or Roman temples transformed into Christian Churches, or the Indo-Islamic architecture, merging two cultures in a new language.

I wished to render this obsession of mine with Encounters, thanks to a combination of two iconic ingredients from East and West, iris and oudh – a moment of contact from whom a new creature originates. You will find the sophisticated refinement of iris butter, with its soft and mysterious powderiness; a material which develops in the soil to then generate the most lyrical of flowers. And you’ll find oudh, a material born out of an infection of the Aquilaria trees, which then produces one of the most mesmerising and complex odours in the perfumery range of ingredients.”

Made in Italy