Natural perfume house Aftelier's newest release is a solid perfume. Offering a marriage of oakmoss with aromas recalling a wet forest floor, all topped with the citrusy freshness of bergamot, new Bergamoss "harkens back to the substantial and transporting chypres of old."by: Jodi Battershell
Perfumer Mandy Aftel says, "I was after a particular kind of chypre—one that was both rich and fresh, bright and heavy, sweet and loamy. I chose the particular essences for Bergamoss to merge with each other so completely as to blur seamlessly together. I didn't rely on the traditional diffusiveness of an alcohol-based perfume, but instead wanted the warm texture, solidness, and deep green color to be an intimate and intrinsic part of experiencing the perfume."
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Featured Notes
Top: bergamot, wild sweet orange
Middle: peach, citronellol, nutmeg absolute Base: oakmoss, flouve absolute, coumarin, antique civet |
The bright opening notes include the fresh elegance of bergamot, boosted slightly by notes of the wild sweet orange, which Aftel says adds "its touch of dirty citrus." Citronellol, a natural isolate derived from geranium, contributes a flower note like a fresher, lighter, rosier rose. Peach, punctuated by the warm, woody spiciness of nutmeg absolute and the green rosy citronellol create a transparent floral layer at the heart of Bergamoss. The base features classic chypre ingredient oakmoss, warmed and buffed by soft and powdery coumarin as antique civet insinuates muskiness seamlessly into the mix. Flouve absolute, captured from the flowering tops of a sweet grass in France, contributes sweet and mossy herbaceous tobacco notes, along with powdery green aromas.
Bergamoss solid perfume is made in a base of organic unfiltered beeswax and organic jojoba oil. It comes in a refillable one-quarter ounce sterling silver compact ($240), and in a one-quarter ml sample ($6).
Source: Press Release. All images: Aftelier.
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