New Arrival in Fragrance

The futuristic freshness of Javanol, a sheer sandalwood molecule, is at the heart of the new fragrance pair from Escentric Molecules.

Molecule 04 contains no odorants other than Javanol, a sandalwood molecule that radiates futuristic freshness with a metallic grapefruit edge. Javanol was created from a natural substance in a laboratory at Givaudan in 2001.

The futuristic freshness of Javanol, a sheer sandalwood molecule, is at the heart of the new fragrance pair from Escentric Molecules

For Escentric 04, perfumer Geza Schoen took inspiration from the grapefruit accents in Javanol. The result is a uniquely fresh interpretation of a sandalwood fragrance, fizzing with crisp, bitter topnotes of pink grapefruit peel. Juniper and pink pepper give an extra shot of freshness, and marijuana brings out the softer quality of the grapefruit pith.

The heart is orris with a ‘fresh soft rose’ that Schoen composed from four different rose materials. The drydown is balsamic and woody with Javanol in combination with the somewhat sweeter sandalwood molecule, Polysantol. 

• Perfumer: Geza Schoen
• Created: 2017

Glycolierral®

Though fragrance chemistry can’t yet say “green” in quite as many ways as Nature, today its variegated palette goes far beyond “grass” or “Granny Smith”. Thus, Givaudan’s herbaceous Glycolierral® captures the cool scent of a crushed ivy leaf – hence the name given by Givaudan to the molecule, from the French word for “ivy”, lierre.

THE SCENT: Thinking Green

Say it with a long “o” – Shisõ – and in Japanese, it means “modern thought”. With a short “o”, it trips over the tongue with the uniquely complex flavor of the shiso leaf. An iconic herb in Japanese cuisine, shiso is seldom featured in fragrance. But its smell – a blend of mint, basil and cumin with a metallic flash -- has long fascinated Bertrand Duchaufour. In shi_sõ, he spins it into an arrestingly modern take on a classic genre, the eau de Cologne, replacing citrus with a kaleidoscope of green notes. The zesty bite of cardamom. A sprig of cool spearmint. Lemony verbena. Raspy blackcurrant. Soapy almondy anise. Tart rhubarb. Glycolierral® wraps the bracing blend in a sweet, milky, sap-laden effect.

Its symbolism is based on ears of wheat, the emblem of wealth and fertility since ancient times. Epidor is a bucolic fragrance that evokes harvest time, a season of utmost importance for farmers in the French countryside a century ago. A joyful, sunny period, it was also a rare opportunity for young people to meet and kindle romances. To illustrate this special atmosphere, Epidor has included a generous amount of tonka bean, which releases the aromas of vanilla, new mown hay and almond.

The head note is very musky, while the orange blossom heart develops a soft floral accord of jasmine and violet. The base is highly concentrated in tonka bean (coumarin) with facets of fresh-cut hay, frangipane and vanilla, leaving a persistent, suave fragrance trail.

The ripe wheat swayed yesterday in the summer breeze. The blond sheaves now lie scattered on the ground and the laborers have filled their jute sacks with the golden grain. The village girls lay down their sickles, and in a shady copse, quench their thirst in the stream. They’ll dance tonight to celebrate harvest’s end. A peddler came by yesterday, and now, their skin is fragrant with orange blossom, mingling with jasmine and violet. Their rough smocks have a musky scent, and notes of fresh-cut hay and frangipane tart swirl in the air. While darkness descends upon the fields, they close their eyes for a moment, giving way to their dreams.

• Top Notes: Violet, plum
• Middle Notes: Jasmine, orange blossom
• Base Notes: Cedarwood, sandalwood, tonka bean, vanilla
• Created: 1912 (original) / 2017 
• Perfumer: Thomas Fontaine

The Muse: Egyptian Geranium

A very special variety of geranium -- not to be confused with the red blooms that grace window boxes --, Pelargonium graveolens, whose name means “sweet-scented”, yields one of the most versatile essences in perfumery. Distilled from the leaves of the plant rather than its flowers, it has long been used as a fresh rosy note, hence its vernacular name, “rose geranium”. Ever since the late 19^th century, it is one of the key materials of the masculine fougère family. In Pelargonium, the perfumer Nathalie Feisthauer draws geranium from the depths of the fragrance pyramid to display its complex facets.

The Scent: Pelargonium

A strikingly elegant still life in scent, Pelargonium portrays its namesake ingredient like one of the mysterious floral compositions of Dutch Golden Age paintings. Described by Nathalie Feisthauer as “aromatic, with a crushed-leaf facet, less fruity and more balsamic than rose, almost incense-like”, geranium Egypt acts as the central motif of this intriguing composition.

The perfumer starts by stretching a canvas of cool orris notes on a neat cedar-wood frame. Then she paints a dark, smoky background of vetiver Haiti, guaiac wood and moss.

Shot through with glints of green cardamom, the golden light of Calabrian bergamot suffuses the scene, caught by richly textured ingredients that bring volume and contrast to the composition. The herbal sweetness of carrot enriches the orris accord; ambery clary sage suggests the softness of velvety leaves.

Lemony, peppery, incense-like elemi resin enhances both the fresh and balsamic facets of geranium. As a haze of musks smooths out its edges, Pelargonium’s stately bouquet takes on a spare, abstract beauty.

• Top Notes: Bergamot, mandarin, clary sage, black pepper, Sichuan pepper, cardamom
• Middle Notes: Egyptian geranium, orris, carrot seed, elemi resin
• Base Notes: Cedarwood, vetiver, guaiac wood, musk, moss
• Perfumer: Nathalie Feisthauer
• Olfactive Group: Aromatic 
• Created: 2017

Nature vs. Science: first came incense, sacred offering of woody spicy notes tying man to the mystical; then, the pure simple artifice of Ambrox® and white musk Vulcanolide®. A reconciliation of reason and belief.

The play on contrast is immediately remarkable. Daphné Bugey reconciles the superficial world of intrigue with the profoundly sacred. Incense connects us to the early rituals of perfumed offerings to the skies and the gods. The presence of synthetic molecules transports us to the future. On the skin, Mirabilis appears rational yet remains mystical.

• Top Notes: Ambrox
• Middle Notes: Incense
• Base Notes: White Musk
• Perfumer: Daphné Bugey
• Olfactive Group: Musk
• Created: 2016

In this dark and shadowy forest, nature emanates a mystical and mysterious alchemy, composed of incense, resin and concentrated sap.

One needs to look through the leaves at the top, to catch a glimpse of the sun which tries hard to shine through this impenetrable forest. Here, we find ancient trees with roots that have formed gnarled sculptures. There, willowy trunks covered in resin grow towards the skies, in pursuit of light. Tenebrae plunges us into the heart of a mystical wood. A Shamanic forest where incense fumes infuse the pure sap.

• Top Notes: Incense
• Middle Notes: Resin
• Base Notes: Sap
• Perfumer: Daphné Bugey
• Olfactive Group: Incense
• Created: 2016

The great vetiver roots unfurl in the cold and damp earth bearing an icy impression contrasting with the coming season of fertility and life.

Bare feet on icy ground, sends shivers through the body. It’s as if the freshly sprouted green shoots have been transformed into icicles. Glacialis Terra conjures up a garden of frosted flowers. The freshness is that of a wood at the setting of the sun. On this imaginary journey Daphne Bugey reverts to an old-fashioned apothecary bottle as inspiration. Inside the bottle, are long strands of vetiver roots infused in an absinthe-laced liqueur.

• Top Notes: Ice accord
• Middle Notes: Absinth
• Base Notes: Vetiver
• Perfumer: Daphné Bugey
• Olfactive Group: Wood
• Created: 2016

The blend of sandalwood scents, spices and rice notes instantly evokes an exotic landscape. A fascinating new world.

A new world is opened up. Would it be a forest of sandalwood where rice is steamed while drinking spicy chai or a wide golden field of grains? Venenum awakens memories and souvenirs of India without dwelling upon it. It oscillates between the scent of hot freshly made bread, milky clouds, spicy tea and smooth sandalwood. No matter where Daphné Bugey has decided to make us travel, the sensation is as gentle as it is enveloping. This venin is so flirtatious that it teases.

• Top Notes: Masala Chai
• Middle Notes: Rice
• Base Notes: Sandalwood
• Perfumer: Daphné Bugey
• Olfactive Group: Spice
• Created: 2016

Nature and matter are the heart of this intangible creation: a pure rose, singed by the perfumer on woody embers to conceive the unthinkable.

Thorny. Impertinent. This rose favours dark suits and masculin spicy notes. It is an ambiguous and full bodied flower. Its strength is drawn from the perfection of the Bulgarian rose which is provocatively burnt on a fire of vetiver roots and cade. Cedar provides the blaze. Sandalwood brings smoothness while labdanum offers a sacred facet to this scent.

• Top Notes: Cedarwood
• Middle Notes: Rose
• Base Notes: Sandalwood
• Perfumer: Daphné Bugey
• Olfactive Group: Floral / Spice
• Created: 2016

This olfactive creation describes the fragility of nature and the passage of time. It symbolises the encounter of floral arts and gastronomy through two new accords: carrot-saffron and leathery-violet.

It takes all of a second for the beauty of a flower to topple over in the darkness. Violaceum pays tribute to the ephemeral character of nature. In the shade of a forest lies a carpet of violets. Despite their delicate nature, these flowers are not prone to sentimentality. The usually powdery sensation is replaced by an impression of leather. Daphné Bugey enjoys creating confusion. She combines the violet, cousin of the iris, to an accord of carrot and saffron. This floral composition thereby gains depth. A simple flower can no longer be perceived.

• Top Notes: Violet
• Middle Notes: Carrot seed, saffron
• Base Notes: Leather
• Perfumer: Daphné Bugey
• Olfactive Group: Floral / Leather
• Created: 2016

I FEEL LOVE

AMBER - IRIS - LEATHER - MYRRH -OUD

EUPHORIC - MAGNETIC - INTOXICATING

In this time of societal division, we are compelled to explore that which is ultimately unifying, Love.  Comprised of a new perfume oil and series of portraits, I feel Love is inspired by the euphoria of emotional connection, boundless expression and collective energy.  

Titled after the pivotal collaboration of Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer and composed of undeniably sensual notes including Amber, Iris, Leather, Myrrh and Oud, I FEEL LOVE is a wearable reminder of the political, artistic and sexual freedoms we may only achieve together.

A rose garden surprised by the first frost. Powdery accords defined with aquatic nuances.

• Top Notes: Frosted mandarin, pink pepper, lychee, watermelon
• Middle Notes: Rose, violet
• Base Notes: Sandalwood, ambroxan, heliotrope
• Olfactive Group: Powdery floral
• Perfumer: Nicolas Bonneville
• Created: 2016

Exotic, complex notes that merge together into a beautiful oriental woody abstraction.

• Top Notes: Lime from Mexico, mint
• Middle Notes: Blackcurrant bud absolute, mimosa
• Base Notes: Musc
• Olfactive Group: Clean
• Perfumer: Francis Kurkdjian
• Created: 2009

• Top Notes: Lime from Mexico, mint
• Middle Notes: Blackcurrant bud absolute, mimosa
• Base Notes: Musc
• Olfactive Group: Clean
• Perfumer: Francis Kurkdjian
• Created: 2009

I FEEL LOVE

AMBER - IRIS - LEATHER - MYRRH -OUD

EUPHORIC - MAGNETIC - INTOXICATING

In this time of societal division, we are compelled to explore that which is ultimately unifying, Love.  Comprised of a new perfume oil and series of portraits, I feel Love is inspired by the euphoria of emotional connection, boundless expression and collective energy.  

Titled after the pivotal collaboration of Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer and composed of undeniably sensual notes including Amber, Iris, Leather, Myrrh and Oud, I FEEL LOVE is a wearable reminder of the political, artistic and sexual freedoms we may only achieve together.

• Top Note: Pink grapefruit, bergamot, peach, pink pepper
• Middle Note: Rose water, Bulgarian rose, tea
• Base Note: White cedar, suede, sandalwood, heliotrope, vanilla
• Olfactive Group: Floral
• Perfumer:  Nadège Legarlantezec
• Created: 2016

Comme des Garcons' Blackpepper is an electric collision of molecules: the crash of spicy pepper seeds suspended within infinite darkness.

A powerful subversion of olfactive convention. An incessant investigation of the perpetually unknown.

Warm, dry Madagascan Pepper cracks against fiery Cedarwood. Rich, fragrant Akigalawood (Patchouli, Agarwood) fuses with the caramel resin of Tonka Bean.

Precious seeds and opulent woods blend in blazing harmony, laced with a musky accord.

A profound reinvent ion of familiar exoticism: spice is deconstructed, destabilized, decoded.

A resonant reverberation of dynamic intensity. Spice, seen through the transformative gaze of Comme des Garçons.

• Top Notes: Black pepper
• Middle Notes: Tonka bean
• Base Notes: Cedarwood, patchouli, musk, oud
• Olfactive Group: Spice
• Created: 2016

Into my head...Close To My Heart

Tuberose Absolute is at the heart of this perfume entwined with caressing notes of Neroli. Rose de Mai and Jasmine add further sensual magnetism to the deeper base notes of Patchouli, Moss, Sandalwood, Black Musk and Oud.

Fragrance Family: Floral/Chypre

AMBER SKY, the elegance of a great Amber, sophisticated up to the core. 

Memory of a lascivious sunset on the heights of the Bosphorus, between East and West. The verticality of bergamot sublimates its woody notes of cedar, sandalwood and vanilla. 

Its powerful breath reveals its beauty through an obsessive ascent, at the edge of sensuality.

• Top Note: Bergamot, coriander
• Middle Note: Nutmeg, geranium
• Base Note: Amber, cedarwood, sandalwood, vanilla, tonka bean
• Olfactive Group: Oriental
• Perfumer: Olivier Pescheux
• Created: 2016

An exploration of his life-long love affair with scent, Richard E. Grant's Jack perfume is an addictive combination of both earthy and citrus notes, culminating in a hypnotic fragrance to be savoured by both men and women.

Jack is “sleeved” in a Union Jack calico bag, with a luggage label attached, to personalise once opened.

• Top Note: Lime, mandarin, hemp
• Middle Notes: Pepper, clove, nutmeg
• Base Notes: Olibanum, tabacco, oud, vetiver, musk
• Created: 2016

May 1969, Piccadilly Circus – A young Richard E. Grant was wide eyed in wonderment when he firstsaw the Eros Fountain, people crammed with patchouli perfumed hippies, worlds away from his home in Swaziland.

The scent of patchouli and petrol proved indelible. The aroma of Earl Grey Tea with it’s Bergamot baseat Fortnum & Mason and the leather chairs, were a complimentary Piccadilly mix. Seeing the ground breaking musical “Hair”, featuring full frontal nudity and catching sight of people in see-through clothes in Soho, ignited a hormonal ‘rocket’ storm, topped off when Neil Armstrong stepped down from a real one, when he set foot on the moon that July.

Richard has bottled these heady memories, combining patchouli, petrol, bergamot, leather, musk and ginger. Once again, he worked in tandem with ‘Nose’ Alienor Massenet in Paris who expertly refined his formulas. 

Like JACK and JACK-COVENT GARDEN, the 100ml bottle is sleeved in a Union Jack draw-string calico bag with luggage label attached to personalise once opened. And as the inscription reads on the base of the packaging ' I've been lead by my nose all my Life.

• Top Note: Bergamot
• Middle Notes: Ginger, petrol
• Base Notes: Leather, musk, patchouli
• Perfumer: Alienor Massenet
• Created: 2016

Jack Covent Garden is the second unisex fragrance by British actor Richard E. Grant.

Its exuberant combination conjures up the essence of the historic fresh fruit and vegetable market celebrated in My Fair Lady, and the traditional home of theatre in London.

Jack Covent Garden is “sleeved” in a Union Jack calico bag, with a luggage label attached, to personalise once opened.

• Top Note: Lime, orange, ginger
• Middle Notes: Pink peppercorn, rose, pimento
• Base Notes: Carrot seed, iris, musk
• Created: 2016

• Middle Notes: Tonka bean
• Base Notes: Benzoin, amber, cistus labdanum, vanilla
• Olfactive Group: Oriental
• Perfumer: Francis Kurkdjian
• Created: 2016