The name of this fragrance was chosen to evoke its originality. Indeed, although it contains a high percentage of patchouly essential oil, this is not a classical “patchouly” perfume. Lucien Ferrero’s guiding idea was to metamorphose this essential oil into light and elegant volutes that rise high into the firmament. In order to obtain this unique and unforgettable result, he surrounded patchouli with a mate absolute that lifts its dark and somehow heavy note and brings it up to the sky.
Citrus fruits, spices and a warm base give to this fragrance a mysterious aura. At the base, benzoin and tonka bean build up a long-lasting enveloping scent, like a perfumed hug.
Between the '60s and the '70s, patchouly has been the fragrance of the hippie movement, the so-called love generation, for its aphrodisiac and meditative power and for someone even hypnotic: its scent invited to let the power of the senses embrace you, because of the marked sensuality of its aroma. In the past in India and the Middle East, cloth traders used to put patchouly leaves in the wrappers of precious fabrics to perfume them and keep away the moths, as well as its dried leaves were used as an ante-litteram room perfumer. Arrived in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century it was used in England to perfume pot-pourri and clothes, becoming the main fragrance of the Victorian era. From there to the conquest of the rest of Europe the step was easy.
