Start with the happy sunshine of You or Someone Like You (Etat Libre d’Orange), where mint leaves mingle with manicured grass under the clearest of blue skies. Grapefruit, green tea, jasmine, extend the freshness, landing on a bed of white musk. It’s crisp, clean, and emotionally open, like a perfect spring morning in the Hollywood Hills, where everything feels possible and just within reach. A green scent with the brightness turned all the way up. In a similar fashion, The Soft Lawn (Imaginary Authors) turns from grass to the tennis court, where citrus zest and linden blossom evoke summer leisure. The scent of fresh tennis balls and clay courts mingles with vetiver, ivy, bay leaf, and musk, creating a green that feels both playful and precise. A green with a backhand.
Viride (Orto Parisi) is green rich with old fashioned aromatic notes such as rosemary, sage, and thyme, creating an image of a freshly collected herbaceous crop, earthy and sun-warmed. This green is tangled, resinous, almost feral. It smells like hands stained from pruning, like the sharp breath of Mediterranean hillsides, like something alive that resists being tamed. A verdant, virile force. While Luxe Calme Volupte (Francesca Bianchi) seeks calm with opulent measures of galbanum resin and the hiss of hyacinth, classic green notes - with its bitterness toned with tropical fruits, iris, and vibrant tangerine. Like the Matisse painting from which it takes its name, the fragrance evokes an imagined paradise: languid, sensuous, and rich with saturated color. It’s a green suspended in amber light; an artfully arranged abundance.
Finish with a verdant intensity - in two ways. Corsica Furiosa (Parfum d’Empire) is the scent of tempestuous nature. A reminder that Gaia is not always calm, but raging and sublime. Green here is wild and untamed: tomato leaf, mastic, wilt mint, and moss surge forward with metallic edge and vegetal intensity. It conjures wind-lashed hills, crushed underbrush, and the raw heat of Mediterranean sun on tangled green. A feral cry from the earth itself. It is bracing, invigorating, and utterly alive. While Nuit de Bakelite (Naomi Goodsir) is a huge tuberose fragrance, green all over with galbanum, tomato leaf, angelica, and violet leaf, merging with bitter artemisia. This is tuberose reimagined as a living plant. It is rubbery, medicinal, and strangely addictive. It smells like a nocturnal greenhouse: humid, chlorophyll-rich, and just a little unsettling. A green that hums with life in the dark.
