Enchanted Forest is inspired by the endless sea of Russian forests and fairytales, as well as the most sensual ancient Slavic celebration named Kupala, rooted in the times of darkness, when all on the earth knew its soul and its name (often too powerful to be uttered in vain or at all).
French perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour, built Enchanted Forest around black currant, the smell and taste of which are so beloved in Russia and many other countries where it grows.
Bertrand Duchaufour about Enchanted Forest:
The Flacon & Packaging
The round glossy flacon is made of black opaque glass, to resemble the black currant berry. A golden pattern in the famous Old Russian Hohloma style is wrapped around the bottle. It was designed exclusively for this fragrance by the artist, first painted by hand and then printed on the bottle in shiny gold.
Two symbols, a sleeping dove (femininity) and the moon (fairytales, the mystery of the night) are included in its tendrils. A remarkable thing about Hohloma is that it is not painted it grows under the brush from a magical seed which is hidden somewhere in its pattern. It is not rationally constructed, but it has the energy of a rhythm which the artist feels and finds intuitively, like all his forbears. The flacon rests on a white satin cushion inside a box which is as attractive as the flacon.
The box is lavishly decorated in golden Hohloma tendrils, representing the enchanted forest. It embraces the deep blue sky with its curling branches. The sparkle from a shooting star and silhouettes of the tiny night butterflies resting on its branches play little melodies on each side and easily fly into your imagination. Hohloma is so entertaining and doubtlessly magical that one twists and turns the box, caressing with fingers the different surfaces.
