Essential Parfums Orange X Santal Eau de Parfum

$209⁰⁰ AUD

Size

100ml 1ml Sample

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Ingenious contrast: the fresh lift of bitter orange against the grounding softness of sandalwood. This dynamic is balanced with green basil, which rounds out the citrusy opening of this fragrance. This trails into a chypre base dominated by wood and moss notes, harnessing incredible quality French cypress, oakmoss, and Australian sandalwood, layering many different types of warmth and faceted with spicy tones. The sandalwood is pure and direct, present but unimposing, this is a dreamy composition – each note clear and distinct and in harmony.

Bitter orange over Australian sandalwood — a classic marriage done with ingenuity.

Notes

Bitter Orange Australian Sandalwood Cypress Basil Oakmoss

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Best for Day

Season Summer · Spring

Details

Family	Woods
Country	France
Perfumer	Natalie Gracia-Cetto
Year	2018
Concentration	Eau de Parfum

Description

Fragrance Family:
Woods

Notes:
Italian Bitter Orange Orpur, Bitter Orange Oil, Egyptian Basil Orpur, French Oakmoss, French Cypress Orpur, Australian Sandalwood Album*

*Sustainably sourced and harvested by Aboriginal communities in the southern part of Western Australia.

Concentration:
Eau de Parfum (16%)

Occasion:
Sandalwood, the ever dependable wood: glorious, special, emphatic. A scent for the everyday, and then even more.

Made in France

Editor's Notes

Perfumery is an act of creation, which begins with the arrangement of materials. To find the right accord is creation. There are an immensity of natural marriages in the world of perfumery, from rose and patchouli, amber and musk, and in this instance: Orange x Santal. The long and mesmerising horizontal length of creamy and sturdy sandalwood finds its complement in the ascending rise of bitter orange. Senior Perfumer Natalie Gracia-Cetto perfects each respective note in this duet: bitter orange is paired with basil to add variations of colour, texture, and sensation, whilst the sandalwood note is built with the umbrous impact of oakmoss and the cooling charge of cypress. The drydown of Orange x Santal reveals a mesmerising chypre silhouette: dark, sweetly smoky and off-dry. This is a return to classicism and the textbooks of perfumery: begin with exceptional ingredients, and well-trusted combinations. With technical skill and imagination, everything else will follow.