Colette was a writer who loved perfumes, Gerald Ghislain is a fragrance that pays homage to literature through his Histoires de Parfums, such volumes constituting an elegant and valuable library scented.
If the author of these stories was told late in the perfumery, achieving an old childhood dream, he was provided no stranger to the assembly of flavors as it was already exercising his nose and palate as conservator . Its 12 stories are based on olfactory mythical characters of literature and precious ingredients, in a neoclassical style rich, complex, luxurious, full of character and lyricism.
To revive Colette (1873 is her year of birth), Ghislain seems to have imagined in his Mediterranean home in La Treille Muscat, busy preparing marmalades from his garden and creams burned on the large table in her kitchen Provence.
Citrus start with a pleasant feeling of excitement and bitterness, orange, casting, surrounding himself with some lemon peel, tangerine, grapefruit and bergamot. Although the first impression can evoke a classic cologne, it is quickly diverted by the greedy little note that intrudes fairly quickly and sharply away from the traditional chypre colognes. Colette, in good Epicurean, zest of citrus are never far away from home baking, which thankfully, here to escape the trap of too artificial and praline-usual infernal duo Patchouli. Vanilla, orange blossom and caramel in turn evoke the smell of Wonders, the custard, caramel and salted butter.
A good alternative to the greedy weights for the summer or colognes too austere for the winter.
