SPIRIT OF INDIA
published on 2024-02-04Perfumes are invisible books of which you are the writer with each inhale.
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CAPTURING THE SPIRIT OF INDIA
The Lilith fragrance that I created for Ozparfum has several olfactory readings.
One of these can be carried out olfactorily through the natural raw materials it contains.
Particularly those from India which draw, from the headspace to its trail, the profile of Lilith.
Indian notes which tell the story of the journey of this gypsy woman from Asia to Europe.
Her volatile journey told in his wake and the memory of the people who met him in his exile.
Headspace is a refined accord between a fragment of cardamom essential oil, a cold spice, and a menthol molecule, produced in India.
This accord is an olfactory figure of speech, an olfactory oxymoron composed of glacial crystals from a country with high temperatures.
Each material is carefully selected.
Selecting various menthol crystals is like the perfumer selecting the scent of different shapes of snowflakes.
The dress of this dark heroine was embroidered around a heart of Indian tuberose absolute with a translucent fragrant thread, with the dew of water jasmine.
This thread is an absolute essence of large-flowered jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum) lightened and diluted with a transparent synthetic molecule, hedione High Cis.
Unlike the classic hedione, fresh and lemony, this diastereosomeric version will offer the silky touch of the petal of the jasmine flower between two fingers.
A tactile sensation like the light and pure texture of the chanderi, an ethnic fabric, which would dress Lilith in a satin weave.
DEDICATION
The few words of this article are transformed into thoughts dedicated to my Indian students whom I was able to meet on my way in the schools of the profession at ISIPCA with the students of the Master European Fragrance & Cosmetics (Shivani, Malvika, Ishpreet, Munira, Amritha, Shivalee etc…) or promotions of student perfumers at the Grasse Institute of Perfumery, particularly Krishee! (Krisheema Mehra) who was my intern at the Payan Bertrand company.
The opportunity to cite and thank the raw material producing and/or processing companies who help me to shape the entity of the fragrance LILITH, Sombre Héroïne.
