POUDRE IMPÉRIALE N°1

Eau de Parfum

Poudre Impériale plays with the concept of seduction, using skin and self and a scented weapon, desirous of making someone fall in love with you. Poudre Impériale truly impacts the senses, courtly sensual powder, the after-dust of stolen moments.

Poudre Impériale raises the ghosts of Madame De Florian’s Pigalle apartment rediscovered untouched after she closed the shutters as war threatened and relocated to the South of France, never to return. The images taken were extraordinary, everything suspended in time. A painting of a beautiful woman in a pink silk gown was found to be by Boldini and the first visitors were struck by the overlay of eerie silence. Another image showed a dressing table piled with cosmetic jars, flacons, ivory and silver brushes, books, a powder jar; all veiled in a wintery veil of dust.

This story is echoed by Poudre Impériale, cinnamon dust hanging in imperial air, dampened with bergamot and dusted with pink pepper and enough clove to suggest an old pomander carefully lifted from a box of scented tissue. Heliotrope is the powder thing, swirled with tonka and vanilla-dipped jasmine that smells ambrosial as it glows through the cinnamon haze. Cardamom is the erudite addition here, marrying sensuously with nutmeg and mace to bring warmth and green creaminess, counterpointing the bark and citrus overture.

There is a delicious hauteur to the fade, a dowager ghost of imperial dust that linger on the expanses of skin.

Composition:

• Bergamot, Elemi, Cardamom, Black Pepper, Pink Pepper
• Lily of the Valley, Jasmine, Incense, Heliotrope
• Benzoin, Tonka Bean, Cedar, Musk, Vanilla

Perfumer: Nathalie Feisthauer, 2016

inci list: Alcohol, Parfum (Fragrance), Benzyl Alcohol, Benzyl Benzoate, Citral, Citronellol, Limonene, Linalool, Cinnamal, Isoeugenol, Coumarine, Eugenol