Extrait de Parfum vs. Eau de Parfum: The Battle of Fragrance Intensity Part III
Middle Notes – The Heartbeat of Seduction:
Belle Noire’s heart is a luxurious flower garden that springs open with a warm, delicate wrap of jasmine and orange blossom. Plump florals dance in this amorous automaton with a flourish of elegance.The emotional life of this flower trail is complex and rich, intended to draw one further into the sensual mysteries of the fragrance.
Base Notes – The Velvety Embrace
In the end, Belle Noire is a crescendo of base notes that linger on the skin weeks after the performance is over. Rich cedarwood and earthy patchouli create a grand orchestral finale of sensuality, with a grounding effect that feels earthbound and real. Creamy notes of vanilla blend into the woody base, with coffee making a grand finale curtain call for the sensual muse.
All you dark beauties out there that dare to be good.For you, there’s Belle Noire.But what is this wild elixir…?Made of our best ingredients, selected for their velvety richness, Belle Noire is a perfume for women who understand that there’s often an air of mystery that surrounds seduction. It’s for those who want to create an atmosphere of confidence and allure.One spray, and you’re ready!Belle Noire is part of the Opera sequence by Lancôme, a perfume collection intended to ‘ushher fantasy out of its palace and into the street.
Woody Vanilla- Inspired by Tom Ford Tobacco
Welcome to the world of whiffed perfection. Woody Vanilla is the exquisite, masculine fragrance from the famous perfume house Giorgio Armani, a mix of precious woody notes with a modern twist. The composition of Woody Vanilla beautifully melds the past with the present as a woody aromatic fragrance containing hints of tobacco, vanilla and precious wood which create a unique, mysterious and seductive interpretation from top to bottom. The Eau de Parfum is inspired by the Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille.
Top Notes – An Inviting Prelude:
When you sniff Woody Vanilla for the first time, you’ll meet the magnificence of tobacco; an enveloping, sweet, smoky addictive perfume impression of tobacco flower hued with zingy sweet spiciness of ginger and a dusting of soft sweetness of apricot soothing the crescendo of sizzle. Woody Vanilla somehow blends tradition and modernity.
Middle Notes – The Heartbeat of Timeless Luxury:
The vanilla heart of Woody Vanilla is an orgy of rich accords dripping with honey and embraced by sensual vanilla before flowing out to envelop the wearer in the rich, heavy, blood-and-honey feel of a mariachi band dressed to the nines from boots to hat. There’s cocoa in here too, so you get all that rich vanillic/dark chocolate polyphony.
Base Notes – The Lasting Impression:
And, as Woody Vanilla slowly unfurls, its base notes – with a supple rounded aura provided by the tonka bean, which enfolds you in sheer bliss – create an indelible trail on the skin. Thus the dry fruits add an imperceptible sweetness and the blond woods mingle their own heady male note with the fragrance’s material substance and tenacity.
A Signature Scent for the Modern Gentleman:
Woody Vanilla, a heavenly shot of woody notes from vietnamese cedar wood, sandalwood and patchouli in the base, beautifully layered and blended with apple and mint in the top notes, and cinnamon, ginger and jasmine in the heart notes. Woody Vanilla is a fragrance for the gentleman with a classical and contemporary edge. Traditional woody notes provide build and character to this fragrance which is also light on the skin making it a day and evening option. You have the confidence to step into the boardroom by day and tantalise your partner with your evening attire while remaining dapper.
Woven Raisin- Inspired by Jo Malone jasmine – samba & marigold
Take the rose in its own right and learn it, like the eye – not like the descriptive fancy; you soon will find some simple region on the slope of the imaginative cone from which all flowers, ladbrokes bonuses and fruit melt into meaning. Diving down among the many and winding tendrils you will perceive a strictly personal, a prevenient, and unobtrusive beauty like that of a woman close about you, that enters the scheme with the bud and grows with the bloom – beauty that lets the iris be no more than an iris, the daffodil the daffodil…Jo Malone’s jasmine-samba pillar scented candle ($75), 2016. Photographed by Xuemei Yu.So, let’s follow the scent.
Woven Raisin is the sixth and final Jo Loves Exclusive Fragrance pilgrimage created especially for Fortnum’s. It draws strength from the diverse inspirations found in Jo’s temples of fragrance. Overflowing with heady marigold and ylang-ylang, this candle leads you on a winding canopy road through the tropics. A few monumental bends to the left and right, and the candy floss fragrance of jasmine samba pulls you in close. Broad enough for a single lane, Woven Raisin wraps you in comfort, (never to let go), as its base woven with honey and benzoin allows the enveloping scent to last day in and day out.
