10 perfumes in similar style to Infusion de Fleur d'Oranger by Prada

An iconic classic in its own rite, Quelques Fleurs is a true ingenious scent of its time. The French perfumer, Robert Bienaimé, unveiled Quelques Fleurs the first true multi-floral blend ever created, in 1912.

Since then, his perfectly-balanced, refined bouquet has become modern perfumery’s peerless criterion for pure, meticulously-crafted, multi-floral accords. Prior to his bold invention, floral fragrances had been mainly singular flowers, or florals combined with various nuances of herbs and spices. Bienaimé’s singular triumph is remarkable for its secret, mythical formula. Upwards of 15,000 exemplary flowers and 250 prestigious raw materials are diligently-curated in the creation of a single ounce of perfume.

A unique collection of eight 2ml Imaginary Authors fragrance samples.

Grab your deck chair, smooth in your sun lotion and reach for your paperback with this collection of sunshine scents from those creative folk at Imaginary Authors. Hear the ice clink in your glass with the boozy notes of Saint Julep. Wonder over to the ice cream van with A Whiff of Waffle Cone. And wrap yourself in a sun soaked towel after a swim with Falling into the Sea. With bright bergamot, warm sand accord and salted caramel, this selection highlights those notes we most associate with summer, but in the most inventive way.

Get acquainted with these stories:

1. Saint Julep
2. The Soft Lawn
3. Sundrunk
4. A Whiff of Waffle Cone
5. Yesterday Haze
6. In Love with Everything
7. Falling into the Sea
8. Fox in the Flowerbed

The orange martini at lunch. Naked in the water. Stinging sunlight.

PERFUMER
DAPHNE BUGEY

ANGELS' POWDER

DIRTY HEAVEN

DIRTY RICE

FIG PORN

HAPPY NUTS

INDECENT CHERRY

NANATOPIA

SUGAR ADDICT

June 1660, the Isle of Pheasants, Basque region, French-Spanish border

Fleur de Louis is a refined and elegant imagining of the peace negotiations at the center of the marriage between Louis XIV of France and Marie-Teresa of Spain. A regal ceremony carried out with pomp and purpose against a newly built pavilion of cedar and pine which takes center stage.

Neroli, green galbanum, cypress and bergamot open, leading the way a heart of radiant orange blossom (a favourite of the Sun King), jasmine and subtly perfumed rose and clove water.

Powdery and clean orris contrasts with resinous white cedar. The charismatic beginning of a new era.

An aromatic cologne with a very classic feel: various fresh herbs, lavender and neroli.

Bon Parfumeur open olfactive dimensions and invite you to add your own story. Try 001 if you like colognes on the drier, more herbaceous side.

Perfumer for 001: Nathalie Koobus.

A mist with soft orange notes that frees the mind and brings us back to balance. A beneficial essence. A touch of exoticism.

Perfumer: Serge de Oliveira

“Deeply regressive, Néroli & Petit Grain Printanier evokes the soothing cocoon of my childhood. So comforting, this fragrance reminds me of my grandmother's cookies and the skincare products I used when I was a child. Wearing this fragrance is the promise of an escape to a better world.”

A bright bouquet with a citrus woody focus. Bergamot, mandarin and ginger inject a full freshness effect while sunny floral notes of organge blossom, jasmine and rose meld with velvety notes of milk chocolate. This is an ode to the enigmatic power of white flowers in a rich and edible interpretation.

Perfumer: Sfean J.A.

Sunlight was commissioned by Brocard to Bertrand Duchaufour. It is their first experiment in the luxury segment and an approach to perfume making as conceptual art.

To understand this perfume you need to go back to those physics lessons at school when they explained the nature of light. That light is actually a wave of particles, a flow of energy and that we can only discern the separate colors of natural light with a prism.

The second thing to consider before you approach Sunlight is to think how we experience light and sunlight in particular. We register it around us, we can tell if there is more of it or less around but it’s a phenomenon on the verge of comprehension and conscious perception and in the past the Sun and its manifestations were worshiped as source of life and something divine bestowed on us.

In Sunlight the perfumer used exotic spices, juicy citruses, Mediterranean flowers, some gourmand accords such as marron glace and benzoin resin. However, they all merge into an omnipresent uniform wave of particles around you which you can only perceive as a whole perfume, same way we perceive sunlight. The perfume is also as pleasant as warm rays of the Sun thanks to the subtle gourmand touch, sweet citruses and gentle flowers.

The choice of materials is not random, the sun brings orchards to life, sweet aromas attracting busy bees, the golden round citruses resemble mini Suns and precious benzoin resin represents warmth earth might exude when heated with sun rays.

The bottle deserves a separate mention, it's heavy crystal with exactly 57 facets, the same number you have in the classic diamond cut, the perfect number to capture light inside the stone and make it pulse within.

You can actually spin the bottle (the base has been cut in a special way) to admire the play of light inside the amber coloured tincture.

Perfumer: Anne Flipo  

If you like defiant looks that are also invitations, Full Moon is for you. Tuberose, a wild and sensual flower, is accompanied here by matcha tea and innocent bergamot. Velvety and seductive, Pleine Lune was created to fascinate.

The formula is quite minimalist: it contains 39 ingredients. A classic perfume can contain up to 300 ingredients.

Natural ingredients corresponding to the notes (95%):

Benzoin (styrax benzoin gum)
Bergamot (citrus aurantium bergamia fruit oil)
Texas cedar (juniperus mexicana oil)
Celery seeds (apium graveolens seed oil)
Tonka bean (dipteryx odorata bean extract)
Orange blossom absolute (citrus aurantium amara flower extract)
Jasmine Grandiflorum (jasminum grandiflorum flower extract)
Absolute mate (ilex paraguariensis leaf extract)
Neroli (citrus aurantium flower oil)
Pink pepper (schinus terebinthifolia seed extract)
Sandalwood (santalum album oil)
Tuberous absolute (polianthes tuberosa flower extract)

Organic wheat alcohol

Synthetic ingredients (and their fragrant effects) (5%):
Amyl Salicylate (chamomile, hay)
Auralva (orange blossom)
Benzyl Acetate (jasmine)
Coumarin (tonka bean)
Damascenone (rose)
Ethyl linalool (rosewood, lemon)
Ethyl Maltol (brown sugar, caramel)
Ethylene brassylate (musk )
gamma-nonalactone (coconut)
Geraniol (geranium)
Hédione (fresh jasmine)
Heliotropine (heliotrope )
heptanal/cis-4 (green tea, grass)
Hexenol/cis-3 (green tea)
Hexenyl/cis-3, (green apple, pear)
Hexyl cinnamal (green floral )
hydroxy/5-7-decenoic acid delta lactone (jasmine, apricot)
Hydroxycitronellal (lemongrass, geranium) Alpha
Ionone (iris, violet) Beta
Ionone (iris, (iris, violet)
Isoeugenyl Acetate (carnation, cloves)
Linalool (lily of the valley, lemon)
Methyl non-2-ynoate (fruit, melon)
Methyl oct-2-ynoate (violet, melon)
phenethyl alcohol (rose)