Indie natural line Providence Perfume Co has launched Eva Luna, a new floral fragrance:
Inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Eva Luna was created to evoke Verdant carrot kisses, spring green flowers, joyful lovers, and a moonlit dance.
The notes include carrot, bois de rose, mimosa, mint, tuberose, frangipani, jasmine, violet leaf, frankincense and orris.
Providence Perfume Co Eva Luna is available in 6, 15 or 30 ml Eau de Parfum ($26-115).
(via providenceperfume)
Carrot… I can’t do it. That is often a deal breaker note for me, which is unfortunate because other than that note, this sounds interesting in a way.
I love carrots — this sounds great to me 🙂
I love carrots as food but can’t really get too excited about smelling like one. But maybe I should try a carrot-based scent before I get too stubborn abou this.
The smell, to me, is so close to the more vegetal facets of iris.
Interesting mix of notes (though surely carrot kisses should be orange, not verdant?) Going on my ‘to try’ list.
I’d like to try it too.
I am very intrigued. This conjures in my mind such a heady over-the-top magical type scent, which I will definitely try if I ever get my hands on some. Frankly the carrot made my laugh – Nick Bottom, anyone? Perfume notes lists are usually laughably nothing like the ad copy so Providence win extra points for making me laugh and connecting the story behind the scent to the actual notes. Wonder if it was post facto or not…
Wonder how it would smell next to Let Me Play the Lion’!
I know this post is from June, but I received this fragrance, today, and I’m blown away — I need to tell someone ;). So, I will give a quick update for anyone who’s curious about this fragrance.
My first impression: “Gasp! My gawwd! This is a real perfumer! Like, someone who would’ve been comissioned by royalty, in the 18th century, to make concoctions exclusively for them!”
My next impression: A crisp, yet warm earthiness, is front and center and the carrot has a warm, wet, grassy sweetness to it. The mint adds a kick of freshness, but it’s the sensation of real mint – a fibery astringence with a hint of humidity, like chewing on a mint leaf. Then we get to the florals. This fragrance includes tuberose and plumeria; plumeria/frangipani is an easy one for my skin because it’s one of those notes I would never willingly choose by logic, but it chose my skin, anyway. Plumeria always smells good on me. But tuberose is the clincher. We all know how notoriously difficult tuberose can be and the big test of a perfumer’s skill usually comes down to how they can wrangle and tame tuberose.
The tuberose in “Eva Luna” is the chiffon smooth, warm tuberose of “Fracas”, but Charna’s is much more accessible and quite less serious. It’s a slightly sweet tuberose and the plumeria calms it a bit by adding its characteristic, fresh humidity (that weird, plumeria dichotomy of oily-fresh humidity) to the mix. A soft, green, vegetal note lingers in the background (iris, orris?) and then we move into the perfectly balanced base.
The frankincense is animalic ( just a characteristic, no animal musks blended here — the fragrance is vegan) and slightly spicy but very, very smooth (something different, I think, for frankincense) and it has an interesting lemon balm quality to it (oman?) There is a bright woodiness that reminds me of moist, mossy bark, if patchouli had been rubbed on it. There’s an overall green, earthy hum to “Eva Luna” but it never feels mucky. It’s a flashbulb memory of a walk in the woods after dark; the moisture, the layers of green, the contrasts of new growth and decaying wood. This fragrance is just so beautiful. It really is. It was designed as an artistic, olfactory impression of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and it fits — perfectly. It’s a balmy, summer night in lush woods, stars twinkling in the background, faeries passing for stars, a glistening moon and animals draped in flamboyant garlands of flowers. It’s whimsical and sexy, silly but elegant. Definitely the fragrance of a fairy queen ;).
This is REAL perfume. The kind that melds with the skin in such an organic, carnal way, that puffs of warmth and sebum begin to take on characteristics of the scent and it seems as if the smell is eminating from your own pores. As if you naturally release molecules of magic and moonbeams. I’m thinking this might be a signature scent for me :). That is, until I try all her other ones. I’m so impressed.