ENGLISH GARDEN

Limited Edition Parfum

Abstract garden meets formal beds and floral rooms. Snapped stems, crushed vegetation, pruning, coppicing and stained old leather gloves.

A garden gone to seed, once ornamental, savage, sprawling over beds, borders and balding stone paths navigating through thickets and overgrown verdancy.

There is a sense of modernist gardening, subtle tweaking, rooms redecorated in textured blooms that ooze perfume and colours whose shades of green dazzle and camouflage.

The air itself seems jade, emerald, malachite and lime in effluvium, providing a backdrop for English Garden, a spiky aromatic modern echo of a classic fougère, one of the oldest and most respected styles in perfumery.

English Garden mixes warm lush summer vibes with hazy stone, torn basil, freshly cut grass, the astringency of blackcurrant leaf with greenhouse odours of pungent tomato leaves pushing against cracked mossy glass. The air is chlorophyll stained with flourishing seed heads. While an abandoned fig tree fruits indulgently, its leaves fragrant in the summer air.

Creamy lily of the valley, hay and vetiver round out a portrait of an English garden, tipping into wilderness yet somehow, amid the foliate composition there is a notable rigidity of composition, a brutalist verdigris that supports and illuminates the materials. As with the other three perfumes in this collaborative collection, it has excellent persistence and introduces just enough romantic powder in the final stages.

Composition:

• Basil, Tomato Leaf, Blackcurrant Leaf
• Fresh Cut Grass, Lily of the Valley, Fig Leaf
• Haitian Vetiver, Hay, Oakmoss

Perfumer: Nata Dyshliuk, 2024

inci list: Linalool, Benzyl Salicylate, Limonene, Linalyl Acetate, Terpinolene, beta-Caryophyllene, beta-Pinene, alpha-Pinene, Amyl Salicylate, Hexyl cinnamal, Geraniol, Citral, Alpha Isomethyl ionone, Geranyl Acetate, Cinnamyl alcohol, Citronellal, Eugenol, Coumarin