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Dafneïs by Isabelle Larignon — 50ml eau de parfum in a clear glass bottle with a black cap and a white label engraved with laurel leaves.
Dafneïs by Isabelle Larignon — the 50ml bottle beside its illustrated box, opened out to show the cross-shaped interior printed with Daphne mid-metamorphosis, after Bernini.
ISABELLE LARIGNON

DAFNEÏS

Eau de Parfum


Pre-orders open until Tuesday 27 October.

Dafneïs is a new release, coming to Sainte Cellier direct from Isabelle Larignon in Paris. Reserve your bottle now and 10% is taken off automatically at checkout. Pre-orders will be dispatched in the first week of November, and you will be emailed as soon as yours is on its way.


Dafneïs began with an aesthetic revelation. Standing before Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Apollo and Daphne, Isabelle Larignon found herself undone by it, and the perfume that followed is a tribute to the sculptor, to Italy, and to woman.

Built around an accord of iris, orange blossom and woods, Dafneïs holds the minerality of white marble, the deep-rootedness and melancholy of a woman mid-metamorphosis, and the composed elegance of the Italian Renaissance.

The formula follows Ovid. First the whiteness and cold mineral surface of Bernini's marble, in white sandalwood and orange blossom. Then Apollo's pursuit and Daphne's frantic flight, her body exhausted and overcome by the exertion, in styrax. Then the heavy torpor that seizes her: once-nimble feet becoming immobile roots in Corps Racine®, iris and patchouli; her chest enveloped in a thin bark of cedar and vetiver; her hair becoming foliage and her arms branches, in galbazine and laurel. Immortelle closes the composition, a tribute to a woman's vow to remain her own for ever.

The box tells the myth in four stages, illustrated like engravings by the French artist Dimitri Rybaltchenko. Its lid shows Eros drawing two arrows, gold for Apollo and lead for Daphne; the four sides carry the chase; the cross-shaped interior of the base shows the metamorphosis beginning, seen from Bernini's own angle; and the case for the travel size completes it, Daphne now a laurel bush with her heart still beating beneath the bark. The details reveal themselves slowly, to anyone curious enough to look for them.


Some of the ingredients used:

  • Iris, Corps Racine®, Orange Blossom, Peruvian Balsam, Sandalwood, Styrax, Amyris, Virginia Cedar, Immortelle, Patchouli, Vetiver

Perfumer: Isabelle Larignon, 2026



inci list: Alcohol Denat. (75% VOL.), Parfum (Fragrance), Aqua (Water), Juniperus Virginiana Oil, Citrus Aurantium Bergamia Peel Oil, Pogostemon Cablin Oil, Limonene, Linalyl Acetate, Linalool, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Acetyl Cedrene, Pinene, Beta-Caryophyllene, Santalum Album Oil, Santalol, Farnesol, Myroxylon Pereirae Oil/Extract, Benzyl Benzoate, Geraniol, Carvone, Hydroxycitronellal, Benzyl Cinnamate, Cinnamyl Alcohol, Citral, Geranyl Acetate, Alpha-Terpinene, Terpinolene, Benzyl Alcohol, Terpineol, Citronellol, Eugenol, Laurus Nobilis Leaf Oil, Cinnamal, Trimethylcyclopentenyl Methylisopentenol, Menthol

¥29,000
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