Parfum d'Empire Osmanthus Interdite Eau de Parfum

$6⁵⁰ AUD

Size

50ml 1ml Sample

Pickup available at Melbourne

Usually ready in 1 hour

Osmanthus Interdite, its name a tribute to the mysteries of the “Forbidden City”, opens with the quintessentially Chinese aroma of green tea, which harmonises perfectly with osmanthus, since the flower is traditionally used to flavour it, as is jasmine sambac, a greener, fresher variety of jasmine. A suede accord brings a velvety touch to the scent, while rose oil enhances its fruity facets.

And thus fragrance becomes flavour, crossing over from one sense to another to turn skin into a forbidden fruit: to be savoured wisely.

Green tea and osmanthus — golden, luminous, and weightless. A sustained floral freshness.

Notes

Osmanthus Green Tea Apricot Jasmine Suede Fruity Notes Musk Rose

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Best for Day

Season Spring · Summer

Details

Family	Floral
Country	France
Perfumer	Marc-Antoine Corticchiato
Concentration	Eau de Parfum

Description

Fragrance Family:
Floral

Notes:
Chinese Green Tea, Apricot, Rose, Jasmine, Osmanthus, Musk, Suede

Concentration:
Eau de Parfum

Occasion:
Smiling and velvety - a transparent yet potent floral fragrance that exudes happiness. A daytime fragrance.

Perfumer’s Inspiration:
Inspired by the precious osmanthus flower, whose scent refuses to be divided between floral, fruity and animalic facets, Marc-Antoine Corticchiato wanted to work it with a green tea accord. A symbol of wisdom and gentleness, osmanthus is at the heart of a fragrance that is also flavourful, playing with the boundaries between the senses to transform the skin into a forbidden fruit.

Made in France

Editor's Notes

Mature fruit - an essay in sustained floral freshness. Cycles of complexity swirl around a persistent line of osmanthus flower. Osmanthus Interdite is golden and celestial: concentrated yet weightless. With notes of green tea, apricot, rose, and jasmine, it recalls the lightest of ambrosial syrups - a velvety fluid, gentle yet richly viscous. Temptingly mouth-watering, it’s balanced by a stemmy, slightly tannic bitterness, like crushing sticky petals between forefinger and thumb. To counter this, suede emerges, a natural extension of osmanthus’s leathery facet, it provides both depth and harmony. It remains luminous at all times: jasmine materials add brightness, sharpness, focal clarity, ending on weightless and fluffy musks.