The inspiration
At the beginning of the 6th century BC, the city of Corinth began to dominate the perfume trade in the ancient world. Due to its ideal location between East and West, Corinthian perfumers exported their fragrant oils in stone vases called alabastra or aryballoi. Perfumes and resins were transported in leather bottles on small boats along the coast of the Gulf of Corinth.
The perfume
Imagine for a moment watching the ballet of boats laden with vessels of perfumed oils and fragrant resins from the pine forest or the scrubland at sunset. Their leather skins carefully preserve the scent of these resins and balms. Frankincense, fir balsam, opoponax and benzoin form the resinous quadriga that leads ambergris and leather to the mineral shores of a Mediterranean twilight.
The name
Ambra with a hint of leather.
