A SIGH OF DAWN
A SIGH OF DAWN
Limited Edition
Eau de Parfum
A Sigh of Dawn is the sound the world makes before it fully wakes. Frassaï's thirteenth creation captures a threshold most perfumery ignores: not the bright arrival of morning but the liminal exhalation just before it, when the air is still holding the night's warmth and the first light wakes humid and tentative, but already irreversible.
Perfumer Marypierre Julien, a Senior Perfumer at Givaudan who trained under both Jean-Louis Sieuzac and Bertrand Duchaufour, has built the composition around a tension between green transparency and woody depth.
Green mandarine opens with a sparkling, tart citrus brightness that gives way to the true heart of the composition: fig leaves. Luminous and vivid, with the milky, lactonic softness that fig fragrances are loved for, they carry the humid breath of a garden before the dew has burned off. Beneath this, an upcycled rice vanilla provides a quiet, creamy warmth that holds the green notes from below. Atlas cedarwood grounds the composition with a spiced, balsamic sweetness, its caramel depth accentuating the fig's lushness, creating a fragrance that's alive and generous.
A Sigh of Dawn is a fragrance that feels genuinely transitional: caught between dark and light, between coolness and warmth, between the last exhalation of sleep and the first conscious breath.
the door is a reflection of light
a certain shade of green — humid, shy
not there yet, but
from afar, there is no way back
Illustrations: Daniele Catalli
Poems: Paula Cañón
93% Natural Composition:
- Vert de Mandarine
- Fig Leaves
- Vanilla ex Rice (upcycled), Cedarwood Atlas
Perfumer: Marypierre Julien, 2026
inci list: Alcohol Denat., Parfum (Fragrance), Aqua (Water), Alpha-terpinene, Benzyl Benzoate, Beta-caryophyllene, Camphor, Cedrus Atlantica Oil Extract, Citral, Citrus Aurantium Bergamia Peel Oil, Citrus Aurantium Flower Oil, Citrus Aurantium Peel Oil, Coumarin, Farnesol, Geraniol, Geranyl Acetate, Hexyl Cinnamal, Hydroxycitronellal, Lavandula Oil Extract, Limonene, Linalool, Linalyl Acetate, Pinene, Rose Ketones, Terpineol, Terpinolene, Tetramethyl Acetyloctahydronaphthalenes, Vanillin.
