Argos
Birth of Venus
Birth of Venus est un floral-fruité lumineux, pêche, pamplemousse et fleur d'oranger sur framboise, rose et jasmin avec un souffle de chocolat, qui se pose en ambre crémeux, santal de Mysore et bois cachemire.
L'Histoire
Argos imagine la déesse émergeant de l'écume marine comme un bouquet radieux et féminin : fruits juteux et fleurs blanches sur un fond boisé doux et crémeux, joli, raffiné et d'une élégance naturelle.
Le Nez
Composé par Christian Petrovich, fondateur d'Argos, également à l'origine de Triumph of Bacchus, Adonis Awakens et Bacio Immortale.
Fruité
jaillissement juteux du verger mûr
La douceur charnue de la pêche, de la poire, de la pomme ou des baies, tendre et perlée de rosée, d'une maturité nectarée bien distincte de l'acidité des agrumes. Elle apporte une rondeur joueuse et appétissante, juvénile, juteuse et insouciante.
Sucré
chaleur comestible sur la peau
Un caractère rond et sucré qui suggère le caramel, le miel ou la barbe à papa sans qu'aucun ne domine. Réconfortant et indulgent, c'est l'attrait gourmand qui rend un parfum doux, accueillant et presque assez bon à goûter.
Agrumes
premier éclat zesté du matin
La luminosité juteuse et craquante du citron, de la bergamote et de l'écorce d'orange, acidulée et effervescente avec une amertume nette. Elle ouvre un parfum d'un élan immédiat et pétillant, frais et tonique, s'évaporant aussi vite que le soleil sur l'eau.
Fleurs blanches
fleurs capiteuses, narcotiques et crémeuses
Des pétales luxuriants et crémeux qui virent au capiteux, presque narcotique, avec une douceur mûre et indolique frangée de vert et un soupçon de fruit trop mûr. Sensuel et enivrant, c'est le genre de fleur qui emplit une pièce et s'attarde sur la peau tiède.
Rose
pétales de velours, miel et épine
Le parfum à étages des vrais pétales, perlé de rosée et fruité en tête, avec un cœur plus confit, mielleux, et un léger mordant poivré et vert. Intemporel et chargé d'émotion, tour à tour délicat et impérieux selon la façon dont il se déploie.
Ambre
résine dorée au rayonnement chaud
Une lueur douce et résineuse née du labdanum, du benjoin et de la vanille, sucrée mais voilée, comme une sève chauffée au soleil teintée d'un soupçon d'encens. Elle diffuse une chaleur dorée et enveloppante qui s'attache à la peau et persiste.
Pêche
The lab-built peach behind nearly every fruity scent
What it is
Since no usable peach oil exists in nature, mainstream perfumery reaches instead for a single workhorse molecule: gamma-undecalactone, long known as aldehyde C14 or simply 'peach aldehyde,' often rounded out with related lactones. These are pure aroma-chemicals made in the lab, not drawn from any fruit. One material does most of the work that an all-natural version needs a whole bouquet of extracts to achieve.
How it smells
Instantly and unmistakably peach — sweet, creamy, slightly buttery, with that recognizable canned-fruit roundness. Compared with the natural accord it is brighter, cleaner and more linear, smelling of peach and little else, holding the same shape from first spray to dry-down. It is the crisp, confident, cartoon-clear version of the fruit.
In perfumery
This is the ubiquitous peach, woven into countless fruity, floral and gourmand compositions across every price tier. A few drops fold softness and fruit into a blend reliably, which is why it is a default building block rather than a luxury. It pairs effortlessly with rose, white flowers, vanilla and musks to give that polished modern sweetness.
Good to know
None of this is a criticism — synthetics are clean, potent, inexpensive and identical batch to batch, which is exactly why they dominate. The accord lasts longer and projects harder than any natural reconstruction, at a fraction of the cost. What it trades away is the shifting, slightly floral, less-than-perfect complexity that comes only from building the fruit out of real botanicals.
Fleur D'Oranger
White petals between honey and bitter green
What it is
The flower of the bitter orange tree, Citrus aurantium, grown mainly in Tunisia, Morocco and across the Mediterranean. Hand-picked white blossoms yield two materials: neroli, steam-distilled from the fresh flowers, and orange blossom absolute, solvent-extracted from the same petals into a richer, waxy concrete and then absolute.
How it smells
A sweet white floral with honeyed nectar at its core, lifted by a clean bitter-green edge and a faint metallic coolness. Neroli reads brighter and slightly soapy; the absolute is warmer, more animalic and indolic, carrying a soft, almost musky depth underneath the sweetness.
In perfumery
A heart note bridging citrus tops and floral or musky bases, adding radiance and fresh sweetness. It anchors classic colognes and modern florals alike, from diffusive, sparkling neroli accords to the plush, indolic blossom threading through bold white florals.
Good to know
Neroli reportedly takes its name from Anna Maria de La Tremoille, 17th-century Princess of Nerola near Rome, who scented her gloves, gloves and bathwater with the oil. Distilling one kilogram of neroli takes roughly a tonne of freshly picked blossoms, making it costly.
Pamplemousse
Bitter-bright citrus burst with a sulfurous tang
What it is
Grapefruit oil is cold-pressed from the peel of Citrus paradisi, a large subtropical citrus that arose as a natural hybrid of pomelo and sweet orange in the Caribbean. Mechanical expression ruptures oil glands in the rind, releasing a fragrant oil rich in limonene with trace nootkatone and sulfur compounds.
How it smells
Sharp, juicy and effervescent: tart citrus with a distinctive bitter rind edge and a faintly sweaty, sulfurous tang that reads as true grapefruit. It opens with a fizzy, mouth-watering brightness, then fades quickly, leaving a clean, slightly soapy and bitter-green impression behind.
In perfumery
A top note delivering an instant burst of freshness and a modern, slightly bitter sparkle, pairing with neroli, mint, vetiver and woody-amber bases. It is the bright opening of countless citrus-forward colognes, pomelo-themed eaux and many contemporary sport and unisex scents.
Good to know
Grapefruit's signature smell comes mostly from trace molecules: nootkatone and grapefruit mercaptan (1-p-menthene-8-thiol), the latter detectable at parts-per-billion levels. The oil is phototoxic from furocoumarins, so it is often used in furocoumarin-free form or capped under fragrance-safety guidelines.
Bergamote
Sparkling citrus light with a bittersweet edge
What it is
Bergamot is a small citrus fruit, Citrus bergamia, grown almost entirely along the Calabrian coast of southern Italy. The aromatic oil sits in glands in the rind of the unripe green-yellow fruit and is cold-pressed mechanically from the peel rather than distilled, preserving its fresh brightness.
How it smells
Bright, zesty and green, a sweet citrus sparkle softened by a floral, almost tea-like smoothness. Underneath runs a faintly bitter, balsamic warmth that sets it apart from lemon or orange. It flashes lively on opening, then fades quickly into a soft, slightly spicy hum.
In perfumery
The classic top note, bergamot adds freshness and lift while blending sharp citrus into the heart. It defines eau de cologne and the fougère family, harmonizing with lavender, neroli and oakmoss. It opens countless modern fresh-floral compositions, and its oil gives Earl Grey tea its scent.
Good to know
Natural bergamot oil contains bergapten, a furocoumarin that makes skin highly sensitive to sunlight and can cause burns. Modern perfumery uses bergapten-free (FCF) oil to meet IFRA safety limits, so most contemporary bergamot in fragrance is purified rather than raw cold-pressed oil.
Lavande
Cool herbal blue from a sunlit hillside
What it is
Lavender is a woody Mediterranean shrub in the mint family, mainly Lavandula angustifolia, grown across Provence and Bulgaria. The flowering tops are cut at peak bloom and steam-distilled, the purple spikes yielding a pale essential oil; solvent extraction of the flowers gives a darker, richer absolute.
How it smells
Clean, herbal and aromatic, with a cool camphor lift over soft floral sweetness. The opening is sharp, green, almost minty; the dry-down warms into hay, faint vanilla and a powdery, slightly fruity calm. True angustifolia smells rounder and sweeter than the harsher lavandin hybrid.
In perfumery
A top-to-heart note and the backbone of the fougere family, pairing with oakmoss, coumarin and tonka in barbershop accords. It also softens citrus colognes and bright florals. It anchors the great pioneering aromatic fougeres and countless aromatic masculine scents.
Good to know
Provence lavender fields draw millions of visitors, yet much commercial oil is actually lavandin, a sterile hybrid yielding far more per hectare. A spreading bacterial disease, phytoplasma decline spread by sap-sucking planthoppers, has pushed true angustifolia plantings higher into cooler mountain altitudes.
Framboise
Lab-built raspberry, bright, clean, everywhere
What it is
The everyday raspberry of modern perfumery is a synthetic accord, not an extract, since the fruit yields no usable oil. Its backbone is raspberry ketone, the aroma chemical that most defines the berry, rounded out with fruity esters that add juiciness and lift. These materials are made in the lab to a fixed specification, so every batch smells the same.
How it smells
Instantly recognizable as raspberry: bright, sweet, and a little candied, with a clean fruity sparkle on top. It reads more linear and more vivid than a natural reconstruction, holding its shape from first spray to dry-down. There is a pleasant juiciness to it, though it can tip toward a confected, jammy character at higher doses.
In perfumery
This is the workhorse raspberry found across mainstream and commercial fragrance, from fruity-florals to gourmands. It blends cleanly with rose, patchouli, vanilla, and white musks, reliably delivering a pop of berry without surprises. Its strength, stability, and low cost make it the default choice wherever a raspberry note is wanted.
Good to know
There is nothing dishonest about it: synthetics are clean, bright, consistent, and inexpensive, which is exactly why they dominate. The trade-off is character, since the lab version can smell flatter and more uniform than a fruit conjured from naturals. For most perfumery, that predictable brightness is precisely the point.
Chocolat
Roasted cacao melting dark and bittersweet
What it is
Derived from the seeds of Theobroma cacao, a tropical tree native to the upper Amazon basin of South America and now cultivated mainly in West Africa. Fermented, dried and roasted beans are ground into cocoa mass; perfumery uses cocoa absolute solvent-extracted from roasted nibs, alongside reconstructed accords.
How it smells
Deep, dry and bitter like high-percentage dark chocolate, roasted and faintly powdery rather than sugary. Toasted, nutty and earthy facets surface alongside coffee and a dusty cocoa-powder edge. It can lean creamy as milk chocolate or stay austere and cacao-bitter.
In perfumery
A base-to-heart gourmand note adding rich warmth, depth and edible comfort. It pairs with vanilla, coffee, patchouli, rose, orange and tonka, and powers landmark fruity-gourmand and dark-amber compositions, plus countless cocoa-forward gourmands.
Good to know
Cocoa absolute is dominated by pyrazines, the same roasted-nutty molecules formed in coffee and bread crust. The genus name Theobroma means food of the gods, and raw cocoa absolute smells far more bitter and savory than any sweet candy bar.
Rose
The queen of flowers, fresh and endlessly deep
What it is
Perfumery rose comes mainly from two species: Rosa damascena, grown in Bulgaria's Valley of Roses and in Turkey, and Rosa centifolia from Grasse. Petals are picked at dawn, then either steam-distilled into rose otto or solvent-extracted into a deeper, redder absolute via a waxy concrete.
How it smells
Rich, fresh and unmistakably floral, with honeyed sweetness and a green, dewy lift. Beneath sit spicy, fruity and faintly tea-like facets, and in the absolute a darker, jammy depth. Rose otto opens crisp and bright; the absolute reads warmer, smokier and more sensual.
In perfumery
A heart note of extraordinary range, rose adds body, freshness and natural floral richness, blending with almost anything. It anchors the chypre and floral families and pairs with oud, patchouli and violet. It is the showpiece of countless classic floral and chypre compositions.
Good to know
It takes roughly three to four thousand kilograms of hand-picked petals to distill a single kilogram of rose otto, which helps explain why the oil can rival precious metals in price. Picking happens at dawn, before the sun burns off the most fragrant compounds.
Jasmin Sambac
The white flower of warm Eastern nights
What it is
Jasmine Sambac is a climbing shrub, Jasminum sambac, in the olive family, cultivated in India, China and the Philippines. Its small white flowers open after dusk and are hand-picked before dawn, when scent peaks. Solvent extraction yields a waxy concrete, washed with alcohol into the absolute.
How it smells
Brighter, greener and more tea-like than grandiflorum jasmine, with less fruity heaviness. It opens crisp and slightly waxy, almost banana-tinged, then deepens into warm indolic sweetness. That indole carries an animalic, narcotic undertone that turns heady up close yet stays clear and luminous.
In perfumery
A heart note prized for lift and body, blending with rose, tuberose, sandalwood and green tea accords. It anchors white-floral bouquets and rounds sharp citrus. Some night-blooming soliflores build almost entirely on Sambac, and it threads through countless tea-floral compositions.
Good to know
Sambac is the Philippine national flower, sampaguita, strung into garlands and used to scent Chinese jasmine tea. Because the blooms are tiny and picked by hand nightly across a long season, the absolute ranks among the costliest florals in a perfumer's palette.
Narcisse
Hay, honey and a green animal hush
What it is
An absolute extracted from the flowers of Narcissus poeticus, a daffodil-family bulb. For perfumery it is hand-harvested from high meadows on France's Aubrac plateau in Auvergne, after crops moved there from the Grasse area mid-century. Blooms are solvent-extracted into a concrete, then alcohol-washed to a thick dark absolute.
How it smells
Green and floral over a heady, narcotic depth: bruised petals, fresh hay and tobacco, with honeyed, faintly fecal facets from indole. It opens grassy and herbal, then dries into something earthy, leathery and mossy, far darker and stranger than the bright daffodil might suggest.
In perfumery
A heart note adding green narcotic richness and a hay-like, mossy depth that deepens chypres and florals. It pairs with jasmine, oakmoss, leather and immortelle. Its black, animalic facet anchors several dark vintage florals and threads through classic leathery chypres.
Good to know
Narcissus absolute is among the costliest florals: flowers are hand-mown with a comb during a few spring weeks and yield very little oil. The name likely comes not from the drowning Greek youth but from Greek narke, numbness, for the flower's narcotic, head-spinning scent.
Ambre
A warm resinous glow built, not harvested
What it is
Amber is not one ingredient but a perfumer's accord, most often blending labdanum (a sticky resin from the Mediterranean rockrose shrub Cistus ladanifer), benzoin and vanilla, sometimes with tonka or Peru balsam. Despite the name, it has no link to fossilized tree amber, which stays odorless on skin.
How it smells
Warm, soft and balsamic, a powdery sweetness sitting over dry resin. It opens honeyed and faintly animalic from labdanum, then settles into rounded golden warmth recalling beeswax, tobacco and worn leather, threaded with a quiet smoky, incense-like undertone that lingers close to the skin.
In perfumery
A base note prized for warmth, depth and long persistence, anchoring oriental and amber compositions. It pairs naturally with vanilla, patchouli, sandalwood and spices. The sweet vanilla-amber template is a perfumery classic, while drier, resin-forward and herbal readings show its other face.
Good to know
The word once meant ambergris, the waxy intestinal secretion of sperm whales, fueling centuries of confusion among three unrelated things: fossil tree amber, whale ambergris and the resin accord. Modern amber bases are wholly plant and synthetic, leaning on molecules like Ambroxan rather than any animal source.
Vétiver
Cool damp earth pulled from tangled roots
What it is
Vetiver is a tall tropical bunchgrass, Chrysopogon zizanioides, native to India and now grown mainly in Haiti, Java, and Réunion. The prized part is its dense network of fibrous underground roots, which are dug up, washed, dried, and steam-distilled into a thick amber-green essential oil.
How it smells
Cool, damp earth and freshly cut grass over a woody, rooty base. Haitian oil reads smooth, smoky, and faintly hazelnut-sweet; Java leans darker and more leathery. Beneath sit dry cedar, grapefruit-like bitterness, and a persistent green minerality that lingers for hours as it dries down.
In perfumery
A base note valued for tenacity, grounding earthiness, and natural fixative power. It anchors chypres and fougères, pairing with citrus, leather, and tobacco. Many vetiver soliflores are built around it, while its smokier, ashier side is showcased beside cypress and cedar.
Good to know
Haiti supplies roughly half the world's vetiver oil, most of it grown by smallholder farmers. The same deep roots that perfume a bottle are planted on hillsides worldwide as living barriers, gripping soil against erosion and stabilizing slopes where little else will hold.
Cèdre
Dry pencil shavings and sun-warmed timber
What it is
An essential oil steam-distilled from the wood, shavings and sawdust of several conifers. Main sources are Virginia cedar and Texas cedar, both junipers, plus the true Atlas and Himalayan cedars of the Cedrus genus. The fragrant oil concentrates in the heartwood and sawmill byproduct.
How it smells
Dry, woody and warm, the archetype of freshly sharpened pencils and a cedar closet. Virginia cedar is pencil-like and balsamic; Atlas cedar is softer, sweeter, almost honeyed-resinous. Across types runs a clean, slightly smoky, faintly camphoraceous tone that dries to a smooth, sappy warmth.
In perfumery
A versatile heart-to-base note giving dry woody structure, lift and a backbone for other materials. It pairs with vetiver, sandalwood, rose, citrus and incense. Cedar shapes the smoky drydown of woody-floral builds and countless modern woody-amber bases.
Good to know
The cedar of pencils and storage chests is usually botanically a juniper, not a true Cedrus. Cedar-derived molecules like Cedramber and Iso E Super power a huge share of contemporary woody fragrances, making cedarwood one of perfumery's most quietly ubiquitous building blocks.
Santal de Mysore
The creamy gold standard of fragrant wood
What it is
Heartwood of Santalum album, a slow-growing semi-parasitic tree historically prized from the Mysore region of Karnataka, India. The dense inner wood and roots are chipped and steam-distilled. Fragrant oil concentrates only in mature heartwood, developing meaningfully after roughly thirty years of growth.
How it smells
Soft, creamy and milky, with a rounded woody-sweet body and a faint sour-buttery edge that turns almost lactic. Warm rosy and balsamic facets sit underneath. It opens smooth and unfolds slowly, drying into a quiet, skin-like, persistent woodiness without sharpness or smoke.
In perfumery
A base note valued for long, smooth tenacity and its power to fix and round other materials. It pairs with rose, jasmine, violet and oud. Mysore-rich sandalwood defines the great vintage milky-woody orientals and lends a creamy woody heart to countless smooth, skin-like compositions.
Good to know
Indian sandalwood was over-harvested nearly to collapse; standing trees and trade fall under strict Indian government license and auction control. Genuine aged Mysore oil has grown rare and costly, pushing perfumers toward plantation-grown Australian Santalum album and synthetics like Javanol.
Bois de Cachemire
A made-up wood that smells of warm skin
What it is
A fantasy note with no botanical source: no cashmere tree exists. The scent is the synthetic molecule Cashmeran, chemically DPMI, first made in 1968 by John Hall at IFF. It is a polycyclic ketone built entirely through laboratory chemistry, a solid melting near room temperature.
How it smells
Soft, diffusive and warm, sitting between woody and musky. Dry blond wood and clean white musk are wrapped in spicy, balsamic, faintly vanillic warmth, with an old-paper and pine-resin edge. In trace amounts it reads salty and abstract, like sun-warmed skin.
In perfumery
A workhorse base note prized for radiance and long wear, lending a velvety wool-like haze that smooths sharp edges and stretches a composition. It pairs with amber, iris, rose and white musks, and anchors Donna Karan Black Cashmere alongside countless modern woody-musk scents.
Good to know
Brands often dress Cashmeran up as Cashmere Wood, Cashmere Musk or Blond Woods on note pyramids to sound natural, though no such plant exists. It is so self-sufficient that perfumers use it as a near-finished accord alone, blurring the line between molecule and material.
Labdanum
Sticky amber resin scraped from sun-baked rockrose
What it is
Labdanum is a dark, sticky resin from the rockrose shrub Cistus ladanifer, native to the western Mediterranean. The plant exudes a fragrant gum on its leaves and twigs in summer heat; branches are boiled or scraped to recover the crude resin, which is then solvent-extracted into absolute and resinoid.
How it smells
Deep, warm and balsamic with leathery, animalic and faintly sweet facets that read as soft amber. Dried-fruit, honey, smoke and pine undertones run through it. It opens resinous and almost ambergris-like, then dries into a brown tobacco-and-leather warmth that lingers for hours.
In perfumery
A foundational base note and the natural backbone of most amber accords, usually built with vanilla and benzoin. A strong fixative, it deepens chypres, orientals and leathers and pairs with rose, oakmoss and incense. It underpins many golden-age oriental classics and countless amber compositions.
Good to know
In antiquity labdanum was combed from the matted beards and thighs of goats and sheep that had browsed through cistus thickets, then raked off with a toothed tool called a ladanisterion. It is one of the oldest aromatic materials, predating distillation by millennia.
Caractère Olfactif
La pêche, le pamplemousse et la fleur d'oranger l'ouvrent avec luminosité et jutosité ; la framboise, la rose, le jasmin et une touche de chocolat sucrèrent le cœur ; et l'ambre, le santal et les bois cachemire offrent un fond sec doux et crémeux.
Tenue
combien de temps il reste sur la peau
Cette jauge lit la durée de port attendue, le nombre d'heures pendant lesquelles le parfum continue de parler sur la peau avant de s'éteindre. Un repère près du bas signifie quelques heures fugaces, tandis qu'un repère poussé à l'extrême promet un parfum encore présent du matin jusqu'au soir.
Sillage
l'ampleur de sa traîne parfumée
Cette jauge lit jusqu'où le parfum se déploie au-delà de vous et la traîne qu'il laisse. Faible, il reste doux contre la peau, un murmure intime perçu seulement de tout près ; élevé, il grimpe du modéré au puissant jusqu'à l'immense, emplissant une pièce et s'attardant dans l'air une fois que vous l'avez quittée.
Expérimental
pour les audacieux et les curieux
Des parfums hors normes qui repoussent les limites, pour qui veut provoquer une réaction et se démarquer. Ils conviennent aux compositions artistiques et exigeantes : goudron encré, caoutchouc, fruit fermenté, facettes métalliques ou animales qui défient le goût facile. Sur ce cadran, une pièce qui rayonne signifie qu'il récompense le nez aventureux, une pièce éteinte qu'il joue la sécurité.
Bureau
soigné mais jamais envahissant
Les espaces professionnels rapprochés où un parfum ne devrait être perçu que par les personnes tout près de vous. Il convient aux compositions retenues et propres, à la diffusion modeste : agrume net, musc doux, bois pâles qui paraissent compétents et prévenants. Sur ce cadran, une pièce qui rayonne signifie qu'il fonctionne dans les espaces partagés, une pièce éteinte qu'il porte trop loin.
Soirée
après la tombée du jour, intensité montée
Dîners, verres et sorties nocturnes, quand un parfum peut s'approfondir et diffuser avec assurance. Il convient aux compositions plus riches et chaudes : ambres, résines, bois fumés ou fleurs charnues qui s'épanouissent en lumière tamisée. Sur ce cadran, une pièce qui rayonne signifie que le parfum prend vie après le coucher du soleil, une pièce éteinte qu'il reste mieux fait pour le jour.
Romantique
assez proche pour être ressenti
Moments intimes et soirées en tête-à-tête, faits pour attirer l'autre tout près. Il convient aux compositions chaudes et sensuelles qui vibrent contre la peau : fleurs crémeuses, vanille, musc doux, une touche d'épice ou d'ambre qui invite à la proximité. Sur ce cadran, une pièce qui rayonne signifie qu'il installe une humeur séduisante, une pièce éteinte qu'il penche plus vers le pratique que le séduisant.
Habillé
raffiné pour l'occasion qui compte
Mariages, cérémonies, galas et tenues d'apparat qui appellent maîtrise et élégance. Il convient aux parfums polis et structurés, à l'autorité discrète : bois lisses, fleurs raffinées, cuir doux, rien de tapageur ni de joueur. Sur ce cadran, une pièce qui rayonne signifie qu'il porte la juste gravité, une pièce éteinte qu'il paraît trop décontracté pour la circonstance.
Décontracté
confort facile des journées sans hâte
Le port de tous les jours, sans programme : les courses, le café, les amis, un week-end qui prend son temps. Il convient aux parfums doux et accessibles, propres et naturels, comme un agrume frais, des bois légers ou une douce chaleur de peau. Sur ce cadran, une pièce qui rayonne signifie que le parfum épouse ces moments détendus, une pièce éteinte qu'il en demande davantage.
Du jour au soir
là où son humeur se pose naturellement
Ce curseur lit l'heure pour laquelle le parfum a été pensé. Un repère vers la gauche penche lumineux et clair, à l'aise au grand jour et en plein air ; glissez-le vers la droite et le caractère se fait plus profond et plus chaud, le genre de présence qui appartient au soir et aux pièces éclairées à la bougie.
Hiver
chaleur qui traverse l'air froid
L'air froid étouffe et ralentit un parfum, si bien que l'hiver récompense le dense et le chaud : résines, fumée, vanille, cuir et épices ambrées qui rayonnent de chaleur contre le froid. La jauge montre avec quelle force ce parfum-là tient et rougeoie par temps froid.
Printemps
floraisons fraîches dans une chaleur douce et montante
L'air doux et humide porte à merveille les compositions légères, si bien que le printemps favorise les fleurs perlées de rosée, les tiges vertes, la poudre douce et les agrumes transparents, vivants plutôt que lourds. La jauge montre à quel point ce parfum-là épouse cette saison fraîche et doucement réchauffante.
Été
clair et aérien dans la vraie chaleur
La chaleur amplifie et projette fort le parfum, si bien que l'été appelle des choses fraîches, nettes et respirables : agrume vif, air marin salé, herbes aromatiques et fraîcheur aquatique qui rafraîchissent au lieu d'alourdir. La jauge montre avec quel confort ce parfum-là se porte dans une vraie chaleur.
Automne
chaleur épicée des journées qui fraîchissent
À mesure que les températures baissent, les matières plus riches s'expriment nettement sans étouffer, si bien que l'automne convient aux bois secs, aux épices chaudes, au tabac, à l'ambre et aux fruits dorés, douillets et propices à la rêverie. La jauge montre avec quel naturel ce parfum-là s'installe dans les journées vives et fraîchissantes.
À Porter De Préférence
Printemps et temps chaud, du casual au soirée, un floral-fruité rayonnant pour une tenue romantique et diurne.
Pourquoi le Décant Birth of Venus
Un floral-fruité joli et crémeux : un décant est une façon idéale de le tester avant d'investir dans un flacon complet.
Notes Officielles
Pêche · Fleur d'Oranger · Pamplemousse · Bergamote · Lavande · Framboise · Chocolat · Rose · Jasmin Sambac · Narcisse · Ambre · Vétiver · Cèdre · Santal de Mysore · Bois de Cachemire · Labdanum
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