Isabelle Larignon Milky Dragon Eau de Parfum

$249⁰⁰ AUD

Size

50ml 1ml Sample

Pickup available at Melbourne

Usually ready in 1 hour

Milky Dragon stands out for the originality of its fragrance and its obvious beauty. Easy to wear, it surprises with the richness and complexity of its many facets which are revealed on the skin like a play of shadow theater. Although widely discussed in perfumery, tea inspired Isabelle Larignon - and more particularly Milky Oolong, a semi-oxidized "blue" tea appreciated for its naturally milky note. The opportunity to work on the gourmet side by discarding vanilla or sticky notes of caramel and cotton candy.

Immersing your nose in the dry leaves of this tea is like diving into the fur of a home cat: it is warm, soft and dry. The nose is greedy like milk on the fire, melted butter on a brioche, comforting like a barely roasted chestnut, a praline hazelnut, come autumn. Coumarinic notes reminiscent of hay dried by the summer that has passed, exude like a consolation. Cis-jasmone obliges, mixing with the whole a bouquet of white flowers. On the palate, the floral, creamy, milky liqueur is enriched with jammy fruit effects: apricot, mirabelle plum, fig. This is all that we feel in Milky Dragon. As well as the memory of a tea garden caught in the mist of the dawning day. Vegetation and humidity meet in the brilliance of green foliage beaded with dew, as shiny as lacquered leather.

Notes

Buchu or Agathosma Lactones Cardamom Butter Bergamot Cashmeran Ionones Damascone Oakmoss Virginia Cedar Balsam Fir Jasmone

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Longevity

Intensity

Best for Day

Season Spring · Autumn

Details

Family	Woods
Country	United States
Perfumer	Isabelle Larignon
Year	2022
Concentration	Eau de Parfum

Description

Fragrance Family:
Woods

Notes:
Bergamot, Buchu, Cardamom, Rose Ketones, Cis-Jasmine, Ionones, Lactones, Hazelnut, Ozonic Notes, Clary Sage Absolute, Cashmeran, Virginian Cedar, Fir Balsam, Evernyl (Oakmoss Note)

Concentration:
Eau de Parfum

Occasion:
Vapours from a fine teacup. Restorative milky roundness. Fine tannin grip. A comforting tea oasis. A meditative perfume for quiet moments.

Isabelle Larignon's Inspiration:
When I had the opportunity to work on this formula, initially intended for a Chinese client, the memory of a visit to a tea garden in the mist of the dawning day comes back to me.

Although very much discussed in perfumery, tea inspired me and more particularly Milky Oolong, a semi-oxidized blue tea appreciated for its naturally milky flavour. An opportunity to work on the gourmet facet by discarding the vanilla or sticky notes of caramel and cotton candy. The challenge: to express both the gourmet dry leaf of the tea and the more floral wet leaf which, as the infusions progress, develops increasingly fruity notes; and at the same time, portray the vision of this garden of very green tea trees, with leaves as deep as fine, shiny leather.

Made in France

Editor's Notes

The Dragon in Love with a Lady of the Camellias (Isabelle Larignon)

“Once upon a time there was a solitary dragon, alchemist and grumpy. At the age of 102, he left to settle on the island of Formosa to soften his old age, surrounded by water. The sea element calmed the fire of his temper and dissolved the hardness of his heart. The dragon took up residence within the Alishan Ancestor Mountain, on the edge of a wild tea garden.

As he awoke after a deep sleep from his long journey through the heavens, dawn gave him his first heart flutter: a thick mist forming a cotton carpet blurred the brilliant green of the camellia leaves and upon rising, revealed the whiteness of flowers so graceful that the dragon’s soul was overturned. Nights and days, he brooded over this fragile vegetation with his loving eyes.

One stormy monsoon day, the dragon raised his wings over the beloved garden for protection. Calm and evening came, the dragon breathed his burning breath to dry out the petals weighed down by the rain. A divine scent of praline and jasmine rose through the air, intoxicating and stunning the exhausted dragon. In his drowsiness, or was it a dream, he watched the flowers forming a farandole and becoming Serpent Woman. All night long, the White Lady rode, undulated and danced a serpentine arabande in honour of her protector.

From this union was born a perfume, green like the leaf of a tea, flowery like a carpet of violets, warm like the breath of a dragon in love.”