There are currently 7 numbered fragrances in the Parfumerie Generale line. L’Eau Rare Matale is no. 6, and features notes of sage, white fowers, bergamot, black Matale tea, Virginia cedar, Chinese cedar, vetiver, birch, burnt woods, pepper and musk. Matale, by the way, is one of the tea growing districts of Sri Lanka, and is also known for its spice gardens…
Thanks to Tina for the link to this short article on The Return of Perfume Atomizers.
There are a few stills from the upcoming movie version of Patrick Süskind's Perfume on the Monsters & Critics website.
Today I’m trying two more fragrances in the Armani Privé quartet by Giorgio Armani (see yesterday’s review of Pierre de Lune and Ambre Soie).
Bois d’Encens, also known as Onyx, is the fragrance that Armani reportedly had developed for his own personal use:
“This is my favourite of the four scents and smells strongly of incense,” says Armani as he covers himself in a fine mist of Bois d’Encens from a little bottle he keeps in his pocket. “I used to go to church with my grandmother and the services were pretty long. The thing that kept me going was the smell of the incense. This fragrance reminds me of that time. It reminds me of my childhood.” (quoted in The Independent, 1/22/05)
Bois d’Encens is said to contain only 5 ingredients…
Giorgio Armani launched the Armani Privé quartet in late 2004. It is the line’s first entry into the high end luxury fragrance market, and the perfumes have the packaging and price tag to match. According to Armani,
I wanted the perfumes to be close to the way perfumes were made in the past – just me working with perfumers to find fragrances that I believed in and liked, with no limit on the price of raw materials. (quoted in The Independent, 1/22/05)
Pierre de Lune, also known as Moonstone, features violet, green notes, cassie flower, iris and belambre, a synthetic with a woody-ambery odor. It starts, as promised, with sweet violet tinged with green notes. Once that calms, the cassie takes the stage…
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