This scent, reminiscent of an elegant boudoir exuding aromas of wood closet, facepowder and lipstick, is designed to seduce. A combination of flowers, musk and Mysore sandalwood make it at first powdery, velvety and innocent. Some oriental resins then release an intense rush of decadent sensuality.
Angel’s Dust
There are some scents or movies which inspired Angel’s Dust to me. Among the scents, I have to mention specifically the beautiful Lipstick Rose by Frédéric Malle for the ‘make-up’ memories. Also, Putain de Palace by État Libre d’Orange gave me some inspiration, not for the olfactive profile but for the sensual juxtaposition of a very feminine seduction and decadent dirty sensuality—and the Rococo mood.
So I started to study my way into an innocent, light-as-a-feather feminine touch but at the same time seducing, daring and corrupt. The vintage, old-style twist was not voluntary but a necessary consequence of my idea of a femininity of past times, where women had a wooden boudoir and spent hours to put powder and other beauty secrets on their face and body, and didn’t care to affirm themselves through a career but would exert their power through beauty and seduction.
Then I softened the powdery-iris-rose part by adding a mixture of resins, representing a dirty experienced sensuality. Odor Edit mentioned Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which is exactly the sophisticated and corrupted atmosphere I had in mind!
A beautiful memory I had is the Marie Antoniette in the Coppola’s movie. I obviously like Rococo, but what I like specifically in that movie is the femininity she represents: shoes, sins, libertinage, cakes, and absolute mindlessness, without any guiltiness. Many have compared Angel’s Dust to some Guerlain mythological scents. I am honored of comparison but I couldn’t even think of the possibility of making something so perfect.
