KEY NOTES: COCO DE MER, YLANG YLANG COMORES ISLANDS, CARDAMOM
FRAGRANCE DESCIRPTION:
TOM FORD’S SOLEIL BLANC IS AN ADDICTIVE SOLAR FLORAL AMBER AND COCO DE MER-INFUSED PERFUME. ALIVE WITH SEDUCTIVE CARDAMOM AND REFRESHINGLY DECADENT YLANG YLANG, TOM FORD’S SOLEIL BLANC UNAPOLOGETICALLY EXUDES THE ENDLESS PURSUIT OF SUN AND LUXURY.
ABOUT THE FRAGRANCE:
“SOLEIL BLANC IS UNEXPECTED, SULTRY AND ADDICTIVE. IT IS A SOLAR, FLORAL AMBER THAT UNAPOLOGETICALLY EXUDES THE PURSUIT OF SUN AND LUXURY THAT DEFINES SOLEIL.” – TOM FORD
ABOUT THE BOTTLE: SOLEIL BLANC IS CONTAINED IN THE ICONIC WHITE PRIVATE BLEND BOTTLE. CAPPED WITH A GOLD-TONE METAL INSET, THE 50ML AND 100ML FLACON HAVE THE ARCHITECTURAL LOOK OF A CHESS PIECE, ADDING MONUMENTAL BEAUTY TO ANY VANITY.
By Sofia Bardelli
This luxurious amber oriental perfume is sensuous, soft and delightful with a resinous base.
The sparkling and piquant top notes of bergamot, pink pepper and cardamom are a fleeting pleasure, before the sensuous, velvety, buttery, powdery floral and ambergris heart envelops you. The oriental base of caramel, tonka, vanilla and the spicy smoky oud and cedar finally reveal a darker promiscuity. This scent is irresistibly sensuous on the skin and exudes luxury, seduction and charm.
INSPIRATION
The god Mercury was Messenger to the gods, as famous for his quick intellect, guile and charm as for his dark side: he was fickle, untrustworthy, promiscuous and the collector of souls to the underworld. He ruled wealth and fortune; commerce and fertility; science and medicine; and finally storytelling – from writers and poets to rascals and conmen! The most popular of the gods, Mercury was adored for his irresistible charm and wit and the inspiration for this sensuous and seductive scent.
Inspired by the citiy of Paris, KILIAN PARIS introduces its new addition to the Liquors olfactive family: L’Heure Verte, an olfactive soundtrack to nightlife’s liberation to come. L’Heure Verte is named after the traditional French equivalent of ‘Happy Hour’, that early evening window of time when absinthe was served upon sugar into a glass and swirled with a spoon in a slow-paced ritual. The liquid turns pastel green; this hue reappears in L’Heure Verte’s own perfume elixir, an entirely naturally derived color: tender like a Parisian haze, or a Van Gogh painting come to life.
The Perfume:
Absinthe essence opens L’Heure Verte with an instant head twist into a nostalgic heart of violet leaf and licorice root absolute. Its dry-down articulates a unique and precisely chosen facet of patchouli that resonates throughout, and blends into a trio of earthy woods along with vetiver and sandalwood. A first-time collaboration between Founder Kilian Hennessy and French perfumer Mathieu Nardin, L’Heure Verte expresses Paris at its best—indulgent and life-changing in its luxuries and wonderful illusions.
Perfume notes:
Absinthe, Violet Leaf and Patchouli
Kilian Hennessy’s Inspiration:
Inspired by the citiy of New York, KILIAN PARIS introduces its new addition to the Liquors olfactive family: Apple Brandy on the Rocks, an olfactive soundtrack to nightlife’s liberation to come. Apple Brandy was first conceived with perfumer Sidonie Lancesseur for the opening of KILIAN PARIS’s New York flagship eight years ago. The fragrance returns, featuring the original apple brandy core but, this time, with an added uplift—KILIAN PARIS’s signature “on the rocks” accord blended into the opening for an ice-cold liquored delight expressing a uniquely KILIAN PARIS character. A blend of bergamot, apple brandy and cardamon, the accord cools down the original, adding excitement and modernity.
The Perfume:
This fresh opening of Apple Brandy on the Rocks unfolds into the perfume’s core personality: a distinctive apple brandy accord, in which a crisp fruity blend harmonizes with brandy—recreated using notes of rum for the liquor aspect, moss and vanilla. Upon a core structure of cedarwood and ambroxan, the scent carries sophistication into the night. It captures the constant reincarnation and incontestable elegance of the ‘Big Apple’—most especially that of its legendary nightlife.
Perfume notes: Bergamot, Apple Brandy and Cardamon
Bright and lush, mysterious and provocative, Synthetic Jungle is a stylized landscape in technicolor greens. An ode to cult perfumes of the 1970s, Synthetic Jungle offers a modern vision of nature reimagined.
Flipo retained the opulent basil of the original composition, along with a recomposed bouquet of hyacinth, lily of the valley, natural jasmine, and Ylang Ylang oil.
To modernize and sharpen, she then added synthetic black currant and styralyl acetate, effectively putting the bouquet through a glossy, sparkling filter.
Flipo simplified the Chypre and leather notes, resulting in a cleaner, more streamlined accord. Finally, she added patchouli.
With this reinterpretation, the two creators offer a dive into the most sensual character of B683, an immersion at the heart of this perfume and its signature: the warmth and the depth of a woody-leathery accord. Here, it gains another intensity to become an authentic “patchouli leather.” Around that, other notes of the composition sublimate the different facets of this matter with tactile sensuality. Pepper and cumin offer the vibration of their spicy accents, the oud wood enhances the density of then accord while the vanilla brightens it with a caressing roundness…
With this reinterpretation, the two creators offer a dive into the most sensual character of B683, an immersion at the heart of this perfume and its signature: the warmth and the depth of a woody-leathery accord. Here, it gains another intensity to become an authentic “patchouli leather.” Around that, other notes of the composition sublimate the different facets of this matter with tactile sensuality. Pepper and cumin offer the vibration of their spicy accents, the oud wood enhances the density of then accord while the vanilla brightens it with a caressing roundness. On the skin, B683 EXTRAIT marries the one who wears it as a double that underlines its presence.
Can a scent make you feel happier ?
Oud for Happiness is a portal to modernity. It amplifies the benefits of oud through a puff of freshly-cut narcotic grass, energizing and uninhibited.
The composition provides an addictive means of relaxation that stimulates self-confidence.
Better than an imaginary paradise, enter into a secret dimension where the experience of deep harmony can be lived
Main Notes
Bergamot, Ginger, Licorice, Vanilla, Cedar Wood, Indian Oud, All Naturals, Musk
The experience: tasting an infusion of hibiscus in the heart of a gemstone market. The surprising contrast: a hibiscus/rose floral duo contrasts with leather and the softness of vanilla beans. Fragrance family: floral oriental fruity perfume extract (vegan). 32% concentration. Key raw materials: Rose Damascena ORPUR absolute, vanilla ORPUR absolute, leather, spearmint ORPUR essential oil, cassis, ambrette seeds absolute, ORPUR cinnamon essential oil.
The ORPUR label defines the most precious natural perfume ingredients from the perfume house Givaudan.
A grand perfume that wraps around you like a cashmere veil… A perfume like no other, in many ways timeless and hard to describe with words. No.12 perfectly embodies the DNA of Puredistance: timelessly beautiful, elegant and very distinctive in character.
Jan Ewoud nicknamed No.12: ‘Beauty in Blue’. Dressed up in a rich tone of blue, he found it the perfect perfume to complete the MAGNIFICENT XII COLLECTION. No.12 is complex, rich, hard to define, full of character, long lasting in every way and aristocratic without arrogance or pretension.
For this creation, Guerlain House Perfumer Thierry Wasser drew inspiration from the treasures of the East, and worked one of the rarest and most precious ingredients in the perfume world: sandalwood.
Shrouded in mystery, this bewitching note is exalted in a new woody oriental fragrance, a study of subtle contrasts between the dark notes of leather and oud wood, and the luminous floral notes of jasmine and rose.
PERFUMERS SECRET
Amber, leather and oud accords accentuate the essence’s elegant vibrations. Yet, beyond sandalwood’s sacred dimension, Thierry Wasser has instilled it with a more sensual facet, adding an innovative hint of musk with the Guerlain signature, allowing divine vapours and a modern unisex fragrance to live side by side.
With Patchouli Ardent, Thierry Wasser, Guerlain’s master Perfumer, has reinvented patchouli, a raw material usually darkly woody and mysterious, in a surprisingly vibrant and bright way. It combines the elegance of Rose with a majestic leather and musks accord to offer a unique sensorial voyage.
PERFUMERS SECRET
Patchouli Ardent is an invitation to a sensorial voyage imagined by Thierry Wasser, a passionate Perfumer and explorer. Dried patchouli leaves radiate a heady, wooded, deeply faceted scent, synonymous with exoticism and extreme refinement. Patchouli is a noble ingredient whose sensual feminine and masculine plumes of fragrance have long billowed across borders, to conquer and enchant the world.
