Syncopated dance of drums, oil of jasmine. Soft graze of Guanacaste leaves, as green as emeralds. Pineapple catches the light with each facet. It blossoms like a flower beneath the Cardamom sun, caressed by the frothy spray of bergamot. Vanilla takes on a soft, red glow. Though I’m swept away by the benzoin wind, though the breaking waves turn my heart patchouli, I return to Tamarindo where the jungle is a show of art. Between the giant spiders and the happy lizards, inspiration takes on a heady scent.

• Top Notes: Bergamot, cardamom
• Middle Notes: Pineapple, jasmine absolute
• Base Notes: Benzoin, patchouli, vanilla
• Olfactive Group: Fruity Floral
• Perfumer:
• Created: 2018

Vilhelm Parfumerie's Poets of Berlin EdP is a dedication to David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy – a sugary confection of blueberry, lemon, vanilla and woods.

Carried on an undercurrent of vetiver, this beautifully balanced fragrance blend sings a melodious rhythm that's bursting with colour and character. Hazily romantic yet undoubtedly contemporary, this powerful perfume is a metaphorical ode to the genius that played beneath Bowie's flamboyant sequinned armour.

• Top Notes: Lemon, blueberry accord
• Middle Notes: Bamboo
• Base Notes: Vetiver, sandalwood, vanilla
• Olfactive Group: Aromatic / Green
• Perfumer: Jerome Epinette
• Created: 2017

The molecule: Clearwood®

The very first fragrance ingredient designed through White Biotechnology, Clearwood® is the 21^st century’s answer to patchouli. Developed in California for Firmenich, this sustainable, eco-friendly material is derived from the fermentation of sugar cane. Blurring the boundary between the natural and the man-made, the pioneering Clearwood® ushers in a new age for perfumery.

The Scent: Glam Wood

In a neo-stalgic tribute to 1970s California, holy_wood celebrates both the New Age spiritual awakening of the era and the creative explosion of the New Hollywood cinema movement. Just as technical innovations allowed young directors like Scorsese or Altman to reinvent American cinematography, master perfumer Frank Voelkl uses cutting-edge materials to create a luminous modern version of the signature accord of that decade: rose and patchouli. Shorn of its musty facets, the latter reincarnates as the ethereal Clearwood®. Rose Petal Nature Print®, an airy “capture” of flower’s scent, breathes life into the classic note, sprinkled with sparkling pink pepper SFE*. Two floral divas, Bulgarian rose and jasmine sambac, add a touch of Golden-Age Hollywood glamour to the streamlined blend, on a bed of mystical sandalwood and luxurious suede. Turn on, tune in, waft out!

 Moonlight reflecting upon the water.  A night garden filled with night-blooming flowers, ponds, waterfalls, fountains, winding paths, discreet garden benches where lovers meet under the stars.

The peace, beauty and the light of the night in full bloom…

The soft sounds of the night, the fireflies lighting up the atmosphere…

Jardin Nocturne reflects the nuance and poetry of such a garden…

Jardin Nocture is inspired by the night air.

Created by master perfumer Maurice Roucel with notes of night blooming jasmine absolute from India, Assam oud, saffron, mysore sandalwood and musk

The desert airs of Marfa, cosmic axis of West Texas. Creosote shrubs and sumac primed with Chihuahuan mesa woods - mesquite, oak, and pinyon pine. Created for the El Cosmico hotel in Marfa.

• Top Notes: Desert shrubs, pepper, pinyon pine
• Middle Notes: Creosote, oak
• Base Notes: Dry sand accord, keel, shrub wax
• Created: 2015

Helvetolide®

Part of the latest generation of synthetic musks (the oldest one goes back to 1888), Helvetolide® is particularly valued for its delectable pear note, reminiscent of ambrette, a vegetal musk extracted from hibiscus seeds. It was patented in 1991 by the Swiss company Firmenich, hence its name, derived from Helvetia, the Latin term for Switzerland.

The scent: Zero Gravity Musk

Helvetolide® gives off a softly enveloping, long-lasting aura; an otherworldly feeling of stillness and weightlessness. Rather than using Helvetolide® in a “classic” way to enhance other notes, Frank Voelkl boosts its ethereal vibe in a futuristic composition that seems to conjure the scent of zero gravity.

A pink pepper comet brings out its fruitiness. Cool, metallic iris underlines its affinities with ambrette (which has an iris facet). A nebula of vanilla, tonka bean and ambergris underline its sensuousness. In German, adrett means “neat” or “dapper”: in this spare, smartly trimmed scent, each element is essential – as it would be in outer space.

Now weary of the tongue’s games which have for weeks on end been loosening its tooth, a young wolf is anxious to move from milk to blood.

I have loved you for so long I will never forget you.. Serge Lutens

Dent de Lait features notes of milk, almond, incense, aldehyde, heliotrope and musk

A stopover in balmy Rio de Janeiro during an Atlantic crossing from Argentina to Europe.

On the Corcovado mountain, an old car gently ascends a narrow road through a swirl of cobalt-blut butterflies, the sweet scent of tuberose wafting in through the open windows.

• Top Notes: Mandarin, neroli
• Middle Notes: Tuberose, freesia, heliotrope
• Base Notes: Cedarwood, sandalwood
• Olfactive Group: Floral
• Created: 2017