Bossa Nova evokes an old cigar box made from sandalwood- warm, earthy, woody, and comforting, with just a touch of rounded sweetness.
Notes
Toasted Coconut, Orris, Vanilla, Tobacco, Sandalwood, Oakwood, Black Tea, Tonka, Leather
From Maison des Animaux:
"In perfume, we often talk about a tobacco note as a singular experience, meant to convey something typically close to a dense, cigar–rich, robust, unmistakable blast. But just like there are myriad variations in jasmine (Sambac? Grandiflorum? Auriculatum?) and rose (damascena? Alba? Centifolia? Ta’if?)
Tobacco is, aromatically speaking, a very broad category. The great majority of perfumes that boast a tobacco note, in general, are using various synthetic materials to build an accord. Tobacco is expensive to process and problematic unless treated in a specific way to remove nicotine. If a natural tobacco absolute is used, it is almost always from the gentle Virginia tobacco.
With all respect to the beautiful broadleaf virginia tobacco, Bossa Nova was developed with a compliment of a much less common tobacco extrait, extracted from the rare Perique tobacco, grown in a single parish in the fields of Louisiana. It is fruity and spiced and precious.
Other naturals include a beautiful organic sandalwood oil we have begun sourcing from a sustainability-focused collective in Australia, black keemun tea absolute, which is also a beautiful departure from expected tea notes and brings forward a lightly tropical and plummy warmth. Finally, the cigar box carrying all this warmth is made from an oakwood absolute, extracted from aged oak whiskey barrel staves (yay, upcycling!!"
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