Essential Parfums

The Essential Parfums brand amazed visitors to the Milan perfume exhibition Esxence with an incredible price for a niche brand. It turned out to be quite possible to gather star perfumers, pour perfume into good bottles, pack it ecologically and ask for a humane 69 euros for it. The thing is that Essential Parfums categorically excluded distributors with their complex and expensive logistics from the scheme, and here is the result. The downside of the scheme is that you will not try the fragrances in a store near your home. But you can always order a set of samples from the website. A package of five 2 ml test tubes costs 18 euros, and it also contains a voucher for 18 euros to buy a 100 ml bottle. I remember that Sylvain Delacour started with a similar scheme. In addition to hundreds, there is a 10 ml volume that is ideal for people with large collections and great curiosity.

What's in the test tubes? I can tell you about four fragrances, because I somehow misplaced the test tube with the rose.

In Milan, I liked Orange x santal by Natalie Gracia-Getto more than others. An infinitely calm and smooth sweetish aroma of sandalwood with musk. Sandalwood is colored with the smells of dried orange peels and jasmine petals, which are about to be thrown into a teapot. Wait five minutes for the drink to brew, pour into cups, and wait for blissful relaxation to come.

Orange x santal is a fragrance for focused work, in which you can’t make a mistake, or meditation, which is about the same thing.

Orange x santal Essential Parfums, 2018

perfumer Natalie Gracia-Cetto

Bitter orange, basil, oak moss, sandalwood, cypress.

The next composition Mon Vetiver is the complete opposite of calm sandalwood. Vetiver is the end of a hard day, when ties are loosened, the night breathes in your face with the smells of damp earth and washed asphalt, gin with bitter herbal tonic splashes in glasses, and something cheerful smokes in a hand-rolled cigarette, which in our country cannot be consumed or even named.

Mon Vetiver Essential Parfums, 2018

perfumer Bruno Jovanovic

Vetiver, lime, gin, juniper, lavender, gentian, cashmeran, patchouli.

I completely missed the wonderful musk by Calice Becker in Milan, but it is the star of this collection. Its name is tenderness. The fragrance with the simple name The Musc has the smell of a baby's crown of baby powder, a pleasant, quickly absorbed moisturizer with some complex white floral scent, and it also smells warm and sharply of the skin on the back of the head at the very border of hair growth. The embodied fantasy of many ladies who dream of smelling tender and delicate.

The Musc Essential Parfums, 2018

perfumer Calice Becker

Ginger, wax, sandalwood, lavender, musk

For Nice Bergamote, a low price is just salvation. A light green citrus cloud that has absorbed the cheerful summer spirit of blooming gardens and ripe apples flies away in our climate in a couple of hours. A drop of something woody-amber tries to hold it, but even these efforts are not enough for long.

Nice Bergamote Essential Parfums, 2018

Antoine Maisondieu

Bergamot, jasmine, white cedar, ylang, tonka beans.

I will leave room for impressions of Rose Magnetic for now, because without it the picture will not be complete.

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