Byzantine Amber is a 2023 release from luxury niche perfumer Francesca Bianchi, who treats perfumery as "an intellectual process," inspired by "the power of what it means to be human, by the wish to connect with people’s inner life, the desire to spark an emotion in them and make them feel at home in their own bodies, offer solace, or just a quick fix for a bad day." Byzantine Amber, an Amber fragrance, has a scent profile of amber, warm spicy, balsamic, leather, smoky, and animalic notes.
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Cinnamon, Bergamot
Heart Note
Geranium
Base Notes
Leather, Labdanum, Incense, Styrax, Benzoin, Ambergris
From Francesca Bianchi:
"Description: Amber, Leather, Animalic
Mood: Dramatic, Hypnotic, Theatrical
Dark and obscure, shimmering with gold, dramatic and decadent: Byzantine Amber is my interpretation of the ambery accord.
An opening with cinnamon and the pulpiness of geranium develops into an ambery base with a dark, animal and mineral facets.
This is an extrait de parfum, so use sparingly as the concentration is 25%. It has a great longevity (an average of 12h).
The Making of Byzantine Amber
Byzantine Amber is the third fragrance that makes up, together with Libertine Neroli and Unspoken Musk, the series specifically dedicated to the glorious raw materials of perfumery, reinterpreted according to the style of the house.
Byzantine Amber is an intense and decadent perfume, like a great civilization in the final phase of its splendour. Salome by Gustave Moreau is a painting that can evoke the splendour and drama of this olfactory work in images.
The beautiful mosaics of the Byzantine civilization, such as those of Ravenna, have gleaming gold tesserae which are imperfect for being worn out over time. This sense of theatrical and luminous splendour accompanied by a dark and obscure side inspired Byzantine Amber.
The geranium – pulpy, rosy, spicy, slightly green, contrasts with the dry minerality of the ambergris and styrax.
The backbones of this work is a familiar structure, an ambery accord enriched by the spice that makes it sensual: cinnamon.
This warm and shiny accord is darkened by leathery, smokey and animal aspects, which give intensity and characterize the composition."
Note: Samples are sold by the 1ml. You may purchase up to 2ml. Samples of 1ml or less will come in a glass vial with a dabber. Samples larger than 1ml will come in small glass spray bottles. All samples will be consolidated unless expressly requested otherwise.
INGREDIENTS
Alcohol Denat., Parfum, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Limonene, Linalool, Benzyl Benzoate, Citronellol, Cinnamal, Eugenol, Geraniol, Cinnamyl Alcohol, Citral, Benzyl Alcohol, Amyl Cinnamal, Isoeugenol, Benzyl Cinnamate.
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