‘The air in the closed room was full of heavy smells: soap, face powder, the pungent smell of eau de cologne.’
‘Poudre de Riz’ was inspired by this sentence from Henri Barbusse's 1908 novel ‘The Hell’. A delicate amber fragrance that brings back the charm of bygone times in a chord of ‘rice powder’ combined with rose petals and the timeless sensuality of monoi oil with vanilla pods.
Modern phytoparfumery
The term ‘art’ primarily encompasses the products of the ‘fine arts’: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, dance and literature. Film is also often included as the seventh art.
The Black Collection comprises ten fragrance creations. What makes them special is that all the perfumes contain organic-quality natural plant ingredients combined with synthetic fragrance molecules – a synergy of natural, often organic essences and synthetic accords (phytoparfumery) that reflect the imagination of their creator, Pierre Guillaume.
