Embrace yourself, the new perfume is coming!
Grenadille d'Afrique by Aedes de Venustas
Aedes de Venustas, a perfume house that makes me tingle is releasing the new perfume at Pitti 2016 in September this year. I am a big, big fan of Aedes de Venustas because the brand has really astonishing scents. My eternal favorite is Copal Azur, followed by Palissandre d'Or and Cierge de Lune. Those are scents that every perfume love should have in a collection, at least what you can do is to experience them. Aedes de Venustas is releasing the perfume inspired by Africa and raw materials coming from there, such as ebony for example. Amazing, I am already on fire!
A member of the rosewood family, the rare, costly Dalbergia
melanoxylon (literally “black wood”) yields one of the hardest and
densest woods in the world. The Ancient Egyptians, who called it h’bny,
fashioned precious furniture from its heartwood, whose color ranges
from deep purple to brownish black – the modern word “ebony” carries
the memory of that distant past. In Tanzania, the Makonde people, who
know it as mpingo, use it to create spectacular, highly prized Tree of Life
carvings.
In Grenadille d’Afrique – its French name –, Alberto Morillas turns it
into an arrestingly elegant olfactory sculpture.
Grenadille d'Afrique by Aedes de Venustas
From crackling sap to balmy resin and from smoky wood to sun-heated
stone, Grenadille d’Afrique expresses not only its namesake tree, but also
the primal landscape in which it grows. Intriguingly described as
“fossilized wood rubbed in a vanilla accord” by Alberto Morillas, this
strongly contrasted composition sets its dark heart off with luminous
notes.
It is dusk or dawn? Sparkling bergamot captures the last rays of the sun,
while a purple haze of lavender and violet spill their powdery moonlight
on the savannah grasslands…
Run through from twigs to roots with aromatic, juniper-scented sap, this
olfactory portrait of the mythical African Blackwood tree is built around
a “trunk” of Haitian vetiver. With its complex facets of wood, smoke,
earth and flint, it is the vertical axis that draws together the fragrance’s
vegetal, animal and mineral notes.
Turned into combustible resin by a lash of ambery cistus labdanum,
vanilla exudes its balsamic warmth. Bleached wood, skin-soft bark and
sun-heated stone release the day’s heat into the ink-black night, cooled
off by a breeze of musk…
The Perfumer: Alberto Morillas
It was in his parents’ patio garden in Seville, fragrant with orange
blossom in spring and jasmine in fall, that Alberto Morillas discovered
his love of scent. But it was in Geneva that he set out to become a
perfumer.
Hired by Firmenich in 1970, the 20-year-old art student worked in the
chemistry department, while teaching himself fragrance composition.
Within a decade, he had invented a new olfactory family, green orientals,
with Must (Cartier). In the 1996 Pleasures by Estée Lauder, he
introduced an ingredient in the perfumers’ palette which would go on to
top off many a perfume pyramid: pink pepper. The first recipient of the
Fragrance Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003, Alberto
Morillas has signed some of the most distinctive, successful fragrances of
the past decades, from Acqua di Gio to Flower by Kenzo and CK One.
After the 2015 Palissandre d’Or, Grenadille d’Afrique is his second
collaboration with AEDES DE VENUSTAS: “It is a surprising,
uncompromising and emotional scent”, the perfumer explains. “The
materials are simple, stark and unadorned, like a very dense, very
beautiful sculpture
Juraj, BL'eauOG
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