Awesome Osmanthus theme
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Osmanthus is an unassuming little flower that punches above its weight. They look demure enough with their orange-yellow clusters dotted around the evergreen shrub they call home, but their lush fragrance is surprisingly expansive, gently billowing throughout forests in China, Japan and across Southeast Asia. The name for osmanthus comes from the Greek: “osma” meaning fragrance, and "anthos" meaning flower. And what a fragrance, what a flower! It’s a multi-dimensional delight, shimmering almost hallucinogenically between impressions of apricot, honey, suede and tea. Before it was ever used as a perfume material (first notably in Jean Patou’s 1000, a grand fruity-leather floral launched in 1972), osmanthus has been featured in Far Eastern cooking, jam, tea, wine and more for over 2500 years. (Currently, Pepsico manufactures osmanthus-flavored Pepsi for the Chinese domestic market.)
Osmanthus Absolute is a perfumer’s Swiss Army knife, lending its syrupy, velvety texture to a wide variety of expressions. Its succulent aspects of apricot, peach and raisin lend fruity floral richness to a composition, while its notes of tea, black pepper and green leaves enliven green bouquets. Most disarming of all is its sensual suede facet that turns innocent flowers into deeper, darker propositions. Natural osmanthus absolute is rare and very expensive, as it is laboriously harvested by hand, with 1,000 kilos of flowers producing only 1 kilo of absolute. As a consequence it's sometimes blended with, or duped by, synthetic accords of damascones, davana or violet. Whether natural or synthetic, it’s often used as a complexing agent in a perfume, dirtying gourmands or sweetening ouds. This sophisticated selection allows you to meld with the multifarious magnificence of osmanthus, from fuzzy honeyed intimacy to luminous leathers.
Inspired by a 1618 voyage on a galleon, the air in the cargo hold thick with incense, spices and Spanish leather. Nanban is a ship’s manifest of pepper, saffron, coffee, sandalwood, myrrh, and frankincense, with osmanthus suggesting a delicious nexus of leather and tea.
A gloriously complex perfume that oozes sensuality and power. Smoky longjing tea combined with the delicate leather notes of natural osmanthus conjure an invitation to dangerous, romantic games. Multiple musks support the leathered osmanthus, further upholstered by jasmine and Turkish rose. Vetiver adds earthiness.
This soft-focus dream sequence follows childhood into adolescence: a favourite toy, a melted sweet in your jeans pocket, a bite of berry pie. There’s fizzy cedrat and the salty-fresh friction of tart rhubarb against rooty vetiver and fruity osmanthus. Like all dreams, things get weird: a niff of rosy plastic and smoky incense.
Like a deliciously crisp spring day, this uplifting creation with Japanese osmanthus absolute is a beautifully composed bouquet with heady jasmine and tart pomelo, embellished with the tea effect of herby-fruity davana. Uplifting and fresh.
The osmanthus in this perfume is harvested deep within Guilin province in China. The flowers bloom between October and November, filling the entire valley with their intoxicating fragrance. Absolute d’Osmanthe makes a star of this sublime material, its fruitiness enhanced by the dark prune notes of tolu balsam and the honeyed sensuality of jasmine sambac.
Smoky Soul features smoked black tea infused with osmanthus absolute with fruity accents of apricot. A trace of seaweed absolute accentuates the mossy, savory and mineral notes of some Chinese teas.
A luminous fruity-spicy eau de parfum where green mango and bergamot meet marigold, osmanthus and vetiver. Savory, sensual and quietly radiant, it moves from bright outward energy to a creamy, skin-close calm.
Lovely and limpid, pretty and pellucid, osmanthus is poetry in a flower. Its scent is a gorgeous whirl of apricot, tea and suede, which in Dot is made even more fresh with bitter orange and leafy green notes. This enveloping edp rounds the edges with amber woods, punctuated by a sprinkling of peppery frankincense.
