In perfumery amber is one of the most popular notes. Hermes pays homage in his last release in which Jean-Claude Ellena, perfumer of the house, tells one of the mysteries of amber, between sensuality and delight when the vanilla is the heat and humidity labdanum patchouli.
Ambre des Merveilles perfume is a new narrative, poetic and beautiful environment to amber. The word amber makes you dream. But, deep down, we know exactly what you mean What is amber in perfumery? Jean-Claude Ellena answers us: “It’s a mystique! And a reality that brings us to the evolution of customs. In principle, natural amber, called ambergris, is a pathological intestinal secretion of sperm whales. Sometimes expel this substance, although previously achieved almost always after the whale hunt, pulling it in the cutting of the animal. For this reason, ambergris is related to a collective consciousness of heroes who went through “the belly of the beast” and escaped , characters miraculously saved from the prophet Jonah to Pinocchio. This amber smells very discreet, refined and subtle, not at all intoxicating, sea, ocean, rolling of snuff. “
In addition, Jean-Claude Ellena says the reason for our fascination with amber. “This involved the power of language, the virtues of semantic fluency and power of our partnerships with color, because apart from the animal secretion, the term designates a plant resin amber fossil. This resin is odorless and color honey, golden sun and keeps everything locked up for millions of years. What the perfumes bearing the word “amber” is the first sense of the term, but a composition due to the binding of chemistry and nature , which dates from the late nineteenth century. The perfumers combined material synthesis, vanilla, who is white, with a natural material, the labdanum, which is dark brown, is a resin from the Rockrose, and one of the few plants that have animal notes. From this union was born a son honey-colored, and that combination was called amber scent. For its color, and especially by their smell warm, enveloping, almost aphrodisiac and narcotic, evoked such Orientalism and as understood by then. “
For Ambre, the famous tightrope walker bottle Merveilles series becomes, if anything, more beautiful and mysterious. It is rigged with a wide gold band that encloses and highlights the magnifying effect of the crystal ball, while magnificent rain of stars we see in his face.
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