New Arrival in Fragrance

Like a caress, Amber Musk is a fragrance that doesn't overwhelm the entire body, it arouses a thrill, an emotion.  This mysterious and carnal fragrance intertwines Musk and Ambegris in a dance of senses.

• TOP NOTES: Amber
• MIDDLE NOTES: White musk, powdery notes
• BASE NOTES: Grey amber, cedarwood
• OLFACTIVE GROUP: Oriental
• PERFUMER: Pierre Montale

A selection of our latest January 2019 arrival includes:

• Amber Teutonic - DS & Durga
• Amber Kiso - DS & Durga
• Purple Land - Altaia
• Moroccan Leather - Memo Paris
• Amber Musk - Montale
• Bakhoor - Montale
• Mandarina Corsica - L'Artisan Parfumeur
• Mont de Narcisse - L'Artisan Parfumeur

• TOP NOTES: Intense Oud, saffron, tanned leather
• MIDDLE NOTES: Cedarwood, vetiver, sandalwood
• BASE NOTES: Grey amber, white musk, gaiacwood
• OLFACTIVE GROUP: Oriental
• PERFUMER: Pierre Montale
• CREATED: 2018

A phone call of love across the continents, from the Old World to the Tropics by way of a satellite. It’s winter in Italy, it’s summer in Ethiopia on the shores of Lake Chamo. A sea of purple frangipani is in bloom all around. A Purple Land turns into a Land of Love.

• Top Notes: Grapefruit, papaya
• Middle Notes: Guava, lily of the valley
• Base Notes: Musc, ambrox
• Created: 2018

Inspired by the indigo city of Chefchaouen in Morocco, this latest Memo Paris release is created with sensual iris and the warm breeze of orange trees blossoming. Hints of tonka bean and musk are blended with a leather accord to create a uniquely bright and rich fragrance.

Slender blue palm trees sway in the musky wind, as oil of vetiver stirs under a canopy of white flowers. Swallows wildly sweep across the leather, skimming over the ground.

They follow an apogee of iris, beneath a shower of ylang-ylang. Fragrances waft through the tiny streets offering a glimpse of orange trees blooming through the ramparts. A burnous cloak of amaranthus makes its way along a path of pepper and ginger to the medina gates, where cypresses stand guard before the exquisite ogival arches and arabesque doorways. An indigo city, an imperial city, an ancient city looms like a mirage of leathery iris: Moroccan Leather.

• Top Notes: Mandarin, ginger, cypress
• Middle Notes: Orange blossom, iris butter, ylang ylang
• Base Notes: Leather, galbanum, oud, vetiver, musk
• Olfactive Group: Leather
• Perfumer: Alienor Massenet
• Created: 2018

The image is immediate and of immense clarity: a narcissus by the fire, between the untamed vegetal accents and the darker notes of a deep leather.

In the rustic countryside of Auvergne, Heaven and earth come together. The highlands of Auvergne represent a vertiginous horizon.

The prairies are immaculately white, as if winter had returned by surprise, carpeted with Narcissus.

The story begins with bergamot notes, tinged with fresh and spicy notes of cardamom and pepper, reminiscent of the dormant volcanoes in the region.

Then leathery and smokey notes come to the fore, followed by Osmanthus, to create this unique olfactory landscape.

Mahler's hut, perched high above the valley of Alpine fir, horn echoes in the primeval forest. A Nibelungian hoard of precious emerald ambers.

• Top Notes: Alpine cedar, cardamom, green mandarin
• Middle Notes: Geranium, larch, cone
• Base Notes: Austrian pine, opoponax, musk

A ritual in the holy Kiso forest: ceremonial katana unguent of rare woods, temple incense, leather sushi armor.

• Top Notes: Japanese cedar, incense, cypress
• Middle Notes: Asahi zuru maple, patchouli, iris
• Base Notes: Hinoki, leather, tree moss

This fragrance evokes beautiful reminiscences of the Corsican landscape, particularly the early Summer, where the nights are heavy with warmth.

It all started with a delicacy: an aromatic jewel - a candied mandarin. A jewel of an aroma tasted somewhere between land and sea.

The secret of this fragrance is the combination of both facets of the fruit: the richness of the heady, sweet mandarin reminiscent of boiled sugar, and the subtlety of the sharp citrus note. The sweetness of the tangerine is delicately fused with the sweet aroma of absolute tonka bean by the perfumer Quentin Bisch to create this exotic fragrance.

• Top Notes: Immortelle
• Middle Notes: Mandarin
• Bottom Notes: Tonka bean
• Created: 2018

Inspired by Serge Lutens childhood memories Le Participe Passé is built around Egyptian balsam and resins.  

Amber, leather, patchouli and caramel gives this oriental Eau de Parfum a rich and enveloping note full of warmth.

A sensual composition between hot and cold & light and dark. The seductive  combination of Siam benzoin, cumin unfold into a blend of frankincense and a resinous, ambery dry down.

In a parallel universe, there was a business man from Rio. He was madly in love with a gorgeous dancer whose golden skin held the scent of passion. When at last they united, he longed to show the whole world his love. His dancer adored the tuberose more than any other flower. So, the man left Rio and traveled the world over, collecting every tuberose and decorating the moon with them. For seven days and seven nights, the moon scattered the enchanting scent of tuberose across the universe. Every year since, when the tuberose blooms, a carnival takes place in Rio to celebrate their love.

• Top Notes: Passion fruit, bergamot, pink freesia
• Middle Notes: Tuberose, gardenia, tiger orchid
• Base Notes: Vetiver, tonka beans, marshmallow 

Dark corners of a room seem to creep and reach out as the midnight clouds steal the last remaining shards of moonlight. Memories of smokey dreams are lost within your mind. Ruminating over the scent of mystery and nightfall, the fire you went through drifts along the air, the spices of heartache linger on the skin. Assured, you know morning will come, the darkness will subside, and the theory that everything remains dreadful will be smashed and broken.

Notes: Blood Orange, Tobacco, Spices, Vanilla Beans, Sandalwood, Oud, and Incense.

Underfoot, dense dark patches of raspberries are crushed with every step, leaving behind a trail of dry patchouli footprints. Drafts of musk and vanilla draw you to a place in the middle of nowhere, embracing you in a state of contentment. It doesn't matter where you are because that's where the scent has taken you. 

Notes: Raspberry, Plum, Apple, Tobacco Wood, Musk, Vanilla, Sandalwood, Cedar, and Patchouli.

Those moments when scent lingers longer than expected.
Warmth and bright new mornings collide when passersby glance, noting something different in the air.  Eyes close as they take in dark-roasted coffee, vanilla and amber.  Their usual route is abandoned; it's you they follow.

Notes: Coffee beans, vanilla, benzoin, tonka, sap, and amber.

Those moments when scent lingers longer than expected.
Warmth and bright new mornings collide when passersby glance, noting something different in the air.  Eyes close as they take in dark-roasted coffee, vanilla and amber.  Their usual route is abandoned; it's you they follow.

Notes: Coffee beans, vanilla, benzoin, tonka, sap, and amber.

Like high tide dried on skin, memories of the waves, sun and shore.

Notes: Sea salt, white florals, cedar, ambergris and musk.

A land where women reign supreme. On the Indian peninsula on the Malabar Coast, the Nair Princesses dreamed up a sophisticated, harmonious society where women held a central position. Legend has it that the lush forest of Kerala produced magnificent blue birds with golden collars to pay eternal homage to the princesses. Since then, at the end of every day, these fabulous birds have created a unique and melodious love song that is carried on a floral, musky breeze up to the heavens.

• Top notes: Cotton flower, bergamot
• Middle notes: Peach, white magnolia, Arabian jasmine, ylang-ylang
• Base notes: White musk, iris powder, sandalwood, sweet amber, tonka bean
• Perfumer: Delphine Thierry
• Created: 2018

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; Thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.” ... Pablo Neruda

Amorem Rose is an ode to love, the greatest love…

The Rose has the highest love energy of all the flowers, often referred to as the Queen of Flowers, the symbol of the divine feminine love. Amorem Rose is the most opulent rose parfum with an element of smoke.

The smoke brings a sense of mystery and intrigue reminiscent of a great love… the love that touches your soul deeply and alters your very being.

The parfum is a glorious composition of Bulgarian rose, Saffron flowers, Baltic amber and Mahogany wood.

The Damask Rose which grows in the magical “Rose Valley” in Bulgaria is considered the most fragrant, exquisite and opulent of all roses. It is the “heart” of  Amorem Rose.

Saffron flowers bring a golden light to the parfum, and are reminiscent of the orient and grandeur. Baltic amber and  Mahogany wood bring the element of smoke and intrigue while creating a balance to the beautiful floral of the Damask rose.

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; Thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.” ... Pablo Neruda

Amorem Rose is an ode to love, the greatest love…

The Rose has the highest love energy of all the flowers, often referred to as the Queen of Flowers, the symbol of the divine feminine love. Amorem Rose is the most opulent rose parfum with an element of smoke.

The smoke brings a sense of mystery and intrigue reminiscent of a great love… the love that touches your soul deeply and alters your very being.

The parfum is a glorious composition of Bulgarian rose, Saffron flowers, Baltic amber and Mahogany wood.

The Damask Rose which grows in the magical “Rose Valley” in Bulgaria is considered the most fragrant, exquisite and opulent of all roses. It is the “heart” of  Amorem Rose.

Saffron flowers bring a golden light to the parfum, and are reminiscent of the orient and grandeur. Baltic amber and  Mahogany wood bring the element of smoke and intrigue while creating a balance to the beautiful floral of the Damask rose.

Vilhelm Parfumerie's Mango Skin eau de parfum is meant to bring the many pleasures of sun, joy, flirting, love, and happiness to the skin. This fragrance blends notes of mango, orange, and violet for a fruity, feminine scent.

• Top Notes: Orange
• Middle Notes: Mango, frangipani
• Base Notes: Ylang ylang, violet, kir
• Olfactive Group: Oriental Floral
• Perfumer: Jerome Epinette
• Created: 2018

• Top Notes: Bergamot
• Middle Notes: ISO E super, vetiver
• Base Notes: Civettone, firsantol, ambroxan

Ban Timmur, a peppery and citrusy plant grown in the Nepali highlands evoke images of the last refuge on Earth, while the heart note of wild fig, the first forbidden fruit, brings forth tendrils of danger. Warm tonka beans and cashmere woods anchor the scent.

• Top Notes: Sichuan pepper, bergamot
• Middle Notes: Wild fig, carrot seed, rum
• Base Notes: Cashmere wood, tonka bean
• Olfactive Group: Woody
• Created: 2018

Musc Encensé, the name is not just a play on the French encens (incense) and insensé (crazy). Encenser means both to scent with incense and to praise to the skies. And Musc Encensé does exactly what it says on the bottle. Suede-smooth, slightly feral, subtly sexy, perfumer Ralf Schwieger’s tribute to Tonkin musk takes on AEDES DE VENUSTAS’ signature incense in a bold blend of the mystic and the animal. 

To couple smoke and flesh, the perfumer adds an ambery accord that runs through the fragrance. Clary sage shoots aromatic accents through the top notes. The skin, sand and driftwood facets of cashmeran fuses the cool, mineral scent of incense with the animalic warmth of musk. A lick of tonka clouds the blend with almond-milk creaminess… 

A yin yang balance of extremes, Musc Encensé will feel madly musky one day, insanely incensy the next. And smell divine, anytime.

An animalic and sensual skin scent. The result of a quest to find a vanishing point in nature, a nude desire in the translucence of our senses.

Famed perfumer Alessandro Gualtieri founded Nasomatto, Italian for “crazy nose,” in 2007. Based in Amsterdam, the fragrance brand crafts strong, distinctive scents packaged in striking architectural bottles. A man of mystery, Gualtieri never reveals the notes of his bold creations, preferring instead to describe the personal inspiration behind each olfactory work of art.

Top Note: Mint, green tea

Middle Note: Carnation, pine, incense

Base Note: Patchouli, leather, vetiver root, oak moss

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The fragrant scent of a Swiss stone pine forest in the Grisons region on an autumn morning. The mist slowly rising through the trees; dew-covered moss glistening in the sunlight as the sun’s rays warm the forest floor. The earth beneath the moss gives off the irresistible fragrance of autumn freshness. Before falling into a deep winter slumber, the woodland gives up a wonderful array of woody, spicy and fruity notes.

PINUS is perfect for the colder months, enveloping the senses in a warm, comforting and fresh aroma. 

• Top notes: Grapefruit, bergamot
• Middle notes: Swiss stone pine, patchouli
• Base notes: Myrrh, sandalwood, ambergris

Summer in the Grisons, enriched with a mix of Mediterranean notes. Lake Cauma early in the morning: uniquely beautiful with its bright turquoise, crystal-clear water. Lemony freshness combined with cool cucumber and juicy green basil, enriched with a cool gust of wind from the Grisons mountains.

• Top notes: Lemon, mandarin
• Middle notes: Basil, cucumber, orange blossom
• Base notes: Musk 

The Tulsi wedding signifies the end of the monsoon and the beginning of the wedding season in Hinduism.

• Top Notes: Lemon, tulsi
• Middle Notes: Basil
• Base Notes: Cashmere, sandalwood

Inspired by a fresh Vanilla cake just coming out of the oven, this fragrance is ultra-gourmet and bewitching by subtly mixing Milk, Grilled Almond, Warm Caramel and Vanilla for the ultimate Meringue sillage.

• Top Notes: Almond Powder, Butter Cream
• Middle Notes: Milky Mousse, Caramel, Yogurt Cake
• Base Notes: Meringues, Vanilla

• Top Notes: mandarin, black pepper, cardamom, coriander, cumin, saffron, nutmeg
• Middle Notes: petalia, rose water, geranium, aldron.
• Base Notes: vetiver, patchouli, incense, animalis, civet, muscarome, tonka feve, suede.
• Olfactive Group: Spicy
• Perfumer:  Sonia Constant

The beauty of Le Sirenuse is as much inside the hotel as it is outside, on its many terraces overlooking the lovely Bay of Positano. Along the years we've often noticed how at night – cozily ensconced at the Champagne Bar in contemplation of the surrounding beauty - a caressing whiff of delicious creamy flowers comes to keep us company. This beautiful memory of summer nights is what we've encapsulated in Fior Fiore Eau de Parfum: the gorgeous night-flowering Sirenuse jasmine to take home with you all year round.

• Top Notes: Pear, lily of the Valley
• Middle Notes: Jasmin
• Base Notes: Ambrette seeds
• Olfactive Group: Floral
• Created: 2018