Luxe Calm Volupte is a 2021 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." Luxe Calm Volupte, a Floral Fruity fragrance, has a scent profile of green, woody, amber, iris, aromatic, tropical, balsamic, citrus, sweet, and fruity notes.
Notes
Bitter Orange, Green Tangerine, Galbanum, Hyacinth, Tropical Fruits, Ylang-Ylang, Iris, Benzoin, Sandalwood, Vetiver, Opoponax
From Francesca Bianchi:
Accords: Fruity-floral Oriental, fresh, green
Mood: sophisticated, dreamy, exotic
A sumptuous, luxuriant concoction which brings you to a parallel universe of abundance, far from every-day concerns, to a place of sensuous calmness, offering comfort to your soul. Inspired by a verse taken from Baudelaire’s poem Invitation au Voyage, it brings you to a journey through places of pleasure.
This is an extrait de parfum, so use sparingly as the concentration is 25%. It has a great longevity (an average of 12h).
An elegant yet intense fruity-floral ambery fragrance with fresh and green nuances, LUXE CALME VOLUPTE is a luxurious, opulent scent expressing the longing for a place of sensuous calmness, a suspension from daily worries, a break from human angst.
In our historical moment, I felt the need to offer not a challenging, divisive creation but something which could bring comfort to the spirit, an invitation to connect to oneself and temporarily forget about the daily concerns.
“Luxe Calme Volupté” is a recurring verse taken from Baudelaire’s beautiful poem Invitation au Voyage:
There all is order and beauty,
Luxury, peace, and pleasure.
In this poem Baudelaire invites his lover to join him to an exotic place where they can live in calmness and peace, still reflecting his decadent aesthetic.
Luxe Calme Volupté is also the name of a major painting by Henri Matisse – very dear to me – conveying the same ideas that have inspired my perfumes, i.e. the contraposition of calm and peaceful character from one side, sensuous and decadent elements on the other."
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, Aqua, d-Limonene, Alpha-isomethyl ionone, Benzyl benzoate, Benzyl cinnamate, Benzyl salicylate, Cinnamaldehyde, Cinnamyl alcohol, Citral, Citronellol, Coumarin, Eugenol, Farnesol, Geraniol, Isoeugenol, Linalool.
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