Around the World in 10 Raw Materials theme
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Explore 10 perfumes with raw materials from various locatoins across the globe: from nutmeg harvested in Mulucu to Canadian fir resin.
This perfume’s formula has an authentic raw material to take you to the quietude of a boreal forest: Douglas fir resin mixed with a wild strawberry accord, vanilla, and hemlock.
While looking up what the key material in Naiviris was (Kigelia Africana aka sausage tree) we came across a fascinating description of a voodoo practice associated with it. If a man is after enlarging a very important part of his body he needs to go to a Kigelia tree, pick a young fruit, shower it with semen and then the very important part will gradually grow as will the chosen fruit. The key factor is to come back and pick the fruit when you are satisfied with the result and don't want to go any bigger. There are certain risks though: you forget which fruit it was, an elephant picks it, the fruit falls off, etc. We hope no one’s BIG plans got ruined in the production of the Kigelia extract for Naiviris.
Gaiac wood (aka palo santo, aka lignum vitae) is a deep sweet, ambery, creamy and quite smoky material when it comes to aroma, it’s also valued for its medicinal properties as well as very dense wood. Apart from gaiac Palo Santo’s formula features a whole bunch of exotic woods from South America and the Caribbean: tonka from Venezuela, amyris from the Dominican Republic and quite fittingly a rum note. Ahoy!
Birch tar is the main component in a classic perfume recipe: the smoky leather ‘cuir de Russie’ which got its name because of the Cossacks who chased Napoleon out of Russia all the way to Paris only to facsinate the Parisians with how they looked, behaved and… smelled. Cossacks, being a cavalry army, would wear long soft leather boots which they would treat with birch tar for shine, flexibility and waterproof effect. Ultimately, Tonnerre is more cuir de Russie than any perfume on the market at the moment as perfumers pushed the birch tar content as high as modern regulations would allow for their outstanding smoky "burning ships/gunpowder smoke accord".
Close-up has real green coffee extract in the opening and the material's green astringent character balances the sweet remainder of the formula: generously boozy cherry, Atlas cedar, Grasse rose, patchouli, tobacco, tonka and musk.
Afr is named after the Portuguese city of Faro, where the yuzu in this perfume comes from. Får is a unique and delicious perfume made with yuzu, mandarins, bergamot, and limes. It has a detectable delectable vanilla background.
This homage to a traditional fougere opens with restorative bergamot and grapefruit before settling into the soft and velvety notes of lavender and hay. It's redolent of meandering through Welsh meadows.