Aedes FALL 2016

Beauté du Diable - A female perfume is worn as masculine

You like playing with fire, taking risks and are excited by danger.

Beauté du Diable is part of the Les Eaux de l’Âme collection

• Top Notes: Italian lemon essence, bitter orange, coriander
• Middle Notes: Gin accord, absinthe accord, carnation
• Base Notes: Haiti vetiver, guaiac wood

She travels in any direction the wind decides to blow, languid and free without the slightest worry in the world. Unbound by the restrictions of time, she follows her careless whims instead.

The sun is already high in the sky when she wakes on a bed of hay, a resting place not unfamiliar after a night drenched in the hazy pleasures of wine.

A soupçon of dried sweat mixed with a veil of cigarette smoke lingers on her skin, a scent intensified by the blaze of the afternoon heat. Who knows what today will hold? Life is just meant to be lived and she is La Femme Bohème.

• Notes: Amber, honey, jasmin
• Olfactive Group: Oriental
• Perfumer: Carlos Benaim
• Created: 2016

Orbitone®

It softens other materials, appeases tensions between musk, woody and floral notes, and makes perfume blends light as clouds… Since the early 1990s, “the transparent woody-ambery odor of Iso E Super has shaped and defined modern perfumery like hardly any other material,” writes the fragrance chemist Philip Kraft. With Orbitone®, Takasago offers a sophisticated, surprisingly textured version of this indispensable molecule.

The scent: Wood in orbit

Orbits are the result of a perfect balance between momentum and gravity. And in orb_ital, Patricia Choux has brilliantly used the balancing qualities of her star molecule to create a new fragrant planetary system. Violet and rhubarb; pepper, cedar and roast coffee; tobacco, smoke, and a whiff of struck match… Of the many facets spinning around Orbitone® the perfumer has picked pepper as the main force of attraction. The spice’s cool-hot burn acts from top to base notes in orb_ital, exerting its pull on a creamy sandalwood compound, Takasago’s Hindinol®, anchored by sacred olibanum.

A symphony of fine-grained burnished woods spin into a smoothly opulent perfume.

There is a new light on the immemorial scent of precious woods with PALISSANDRE D'OR, which arrives in a smoldering palette of burnt sienna, lacquered red and molten gold.

The idea grew from a rosewood tree, also known as Dalbergia sissoo, which has historically been the primary rosewood species of northern India. Another type of rosewood, “palisander,” redolent of intricate carvings and serene Asian groves, provided the path to inspiration. “I can’t make overly figurative fragrances," perfumer Alberto Morillas explains. “To me, a perfume is a melody.”

His 2015 interpretation is a milky light, glowing-through-wood so polished it turns into silk. Abstract yet intensely evocative, PALISSANDRE D’OR expresses the quintessence of Alberto Morillas’ style, defined by the master in three words: “Fluidity, transparency and power.”

In this dazzling olfactory marquetry, crystal-clear ambrette, a natural musk with rose, pear and iris facets, brightens rich inlays of cool spices pink pepper, coriander and nutmeg. As an intense heat of cinnamon rises, the scent opens up its heart to deliver its secret: a rare sandalwood extract from Sri Lanka. Subtly smoky, rose-tinged and creamy, it is made more luscious still by the milky warmth of copahu balm and a silken patchouli extract. The scent of ambrox, an intriguing fusion of warm, clean bark and sun-kissed skin, embeds its delicate motifs wherever it is sprayed.

In addition, a bold trio of cedar essences add structure and texture to the lustrous blend. Clean, bracing Virginian cedar gives it vigor and tempo. The Lapsang Souchong tea facet of Chinese cedar brings subtlety and Alaskan cedar brings a Russian leather smokiness. “It is a ‘monochrome' by its color and its density with a strong signature and very special, bold ingredients,” says Morillas. “But it's still very wearable and full of facets that can resonate differently on different skin.”

AEDES DE VENUSTAS PALISSANDRE D’OR has now been carefully transferred to a precious new vessel: A fluted glass bottle marked by peacock blue accents, a matte black insignia-stamped cap, and a sleek yet weighty design that marks the next chapter in the AEDES DE VENUSTAS story. 

Serene and mystical, PALISSANDRE D’OR is a journey into the quintessence of wood.

Notes: Sandalwood, Virginian, Chinese & Alaskan cedar, coriander, copahu, ambrette, pink pepper, patchouli, nutmeg, cinnamon.

Perfumer: Alberto Morillas

An odor substance which seems to responsible to lead males to females.

The bottle is inspired by a flask, vessel of liquids to satisfy your thirst. The label is made of 'savile row tweed paper' in the natural color of rope, with a very fine herringbone structure. The herringbone is a symbol of male elegance

Orto Parisi caps are made of solid metal with different treatments based on alchemical processes. The inlay of the cap for Bergamask is made out of horn.

Dedicated to the worlds famous Toscana Cigar first introduced in 1818 in the Tuscan town of Lucca, Italia, Santa Maria Novella's Tabacco Toscano opens with a sparkling fruity-floral note and quickly changes into a warm and leathery yet airy tobacco scent.

America was still very sparsely populated in the 19th century, when immigrants arrived in droves from other continents – all fleeing an «Old Country» where an individual’s destiny was a mere accident of birth, rather than the result of talent and hard work.

This youthful, freedom-loving populace dreamed of a better future and within a century had founded the first nation born of the sheer will of the people. On this land without memory emerged the United States of America – a country turned constantly towards the new. A new aristocracy gradually arose from among this multitude of striving people, an elite of visionary and ambitious men.

Like millions of others, those 10,000 men left their homeland one day with no hope of ever returning – but they had a bolder streak, and their dreams were on a grander scale. People called them the «Upper Ten», a phrase coined by American poet Nathaniel Willis to designate «the ten thousand that matter»: the pioneers of America’s industrial century whose energy laid the groundwork for US supremacy.

The strength of willpower the scent of success

Upper Ten is the fragrance of the corridors of power. The aroma is like entering a New York or Chicago Gentlemen’s Club in 1880. Cedar, sandalwood and fine leather with an added floral touch of geranium make up the main accord of this manly tribute to the life force of these American pioneers. Cardamom quickens its woody note while smooth cinnamon invigorates the mix. The amber, musky base brings more potency and depth, conferring a reassuring strength.

• Top Note: Bergamot, cardamom, bay rose, saffron, juniper berry
• Middle Notes: Cinnamon, geranium essence, leather, peach, orange blossom,
• Base Notes: Cedar wood, sandalwood, patchouli, amber, white musk
• Olfactive Group: Spice
• Created: 2015

Marion skims through the Gotham City night in her sleek Duesenberg, kicking up her heels and sipping bootleg cocktails at the Ziegfield Follies and whisky at the Savoy. She dances the Lindy Hop then strikes languorous poses, smoking Turkish cigarettes while Sweetheart pouts sulkily – but life’s too short, and there are so many parties to go to! ‘Upper Ten for Her’ is the fragrance that lingers in the wake of these stylish flappers during their extravagant evenings on the town.

It opens with a sweet, tart blend of Isabella grape and bergamot, spiced up with elemi and artemisia. At its heart is Bulgarian rose, mingled with raspberry liqueur and Sichuan pepper which gives way to base notes of precious wood enriched with amber, frankincense and a hint of dark chocolate. 

• Top Note: Bergamot, Isabella grape, elemi resin, artemisia
• Middle Notes: Bulgarian rose, raspberry liqueur, Sichuan pepper
• Base Notes: Precious woods, amber, frankincense, dark chocolate
• Olfactive Group: Spice
• Created: 2016