Salvatore Ferragamo Cupola Takes You On A Journey To Florance

Italian fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo looks again to their own city’s heritage and drinks in its inspiration for a new fragrance. Ferragamo’s headquarters building, Palazzo Spini Feroni, is not far from the cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore, and it was this building that influenced the creation of Cupola, the new edition of the Tuscan Creations line.

600 years after its construction, the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore dominates the landscape of Florence. It’s the city’s greatest icon, the protagonist of its amazing Italian architecture. The star of the skyline, it is the extraordinary masterwork of an engineering prodigy, conceived by the creative genius of Filippo Brunelleschi. The dome of this cathedral still remains an unsolved mystery. The largest brick dome ever built, this was the first monument to consecrate architecture to the status of both artistic and scientific disciplines.

Perfumers Luca Maffei and Antoine Lie celebrate this masterpiece with an olfactory ode representing the bond between Heaven and Earth, insolence and rigor, limit and immensity. Cupola is an olfactive painting of the divine mystery. It embodies a feeling of substantial harmony that elevates the soul of those who wear it.

The fashion house describes the scent as a subtle freshness of vivid tangerine and green angelica, immediately rounded with soft leathery saffron, reminiscent of intimate rays of sunshine on the cupola. The majesty of the cathedral stands high toward the sky as a mystical bridge between earthy, sophisticated orris and precious amber, sublimated by deep tones of labdanum. Clear as a celebration of its magnificence, a resinous warm amber envelops the beauty of sacred woods: dark patchouli and smoky gaiac wood.

Salvatore Ferragamo Cupola is available as 100ml Eau de Parfum at Salvatore Ferragamo Boutiques and selected stores worldwide. Come into the beautiful world of Salvatore Ferragamo.

Houbigant Bois Mystique

 

Houbigant is a French perfume house that was established in 1775 by Jean-François Houbigant (1752 – 1807) launched his perfume business at 19, Foubourg Saint Honoré, Paris. Named ‘A la Corbeille de Fleurs’ (The Flower Basket), the shop originally sold wig powder, perfume, pomade, fans and gloves.

An early client was Queen Marie Antoinette, and patronage by various royal families continued throughout the nineteenth century (Empress Joséphine, Emperor Napoleon, King Louis XV, Madame du Barry, Queen Marie of Romania, Queen Victoria). The legend has it that when Marie Antoinette was fleeing to Varennes to escape the French revolutionaries she was recognised as royalty because of her Houbigant perfume, which only royalty could afford.

With over four centuries of artisanship and craftsmanship under its belt, The French Maison is the only heritage perfume house continuously in production to this day. Quality counts, as does experience: Houbigant fragrances are superbly crafted, with an exquisite attention to detail that comes only from the act of practicing a single art over centuries. Houbigant’s Fougere Royale, for example, was the first fragrance of its genre and continues to be the standard setter in the fragrance world to date and Quelques Fleurs L’Original that was created in 1912 and was one of the first pure floral fragrances.

By the late 1920s, Houbigant had a base in New York, United States, and was selling its fine face powders in compacts. Compacts featuring Houbigant’s flower basket logo and vanities with abstract Deco designs are highly collectible.

Now French Maison Houbigant launches a new perfume for men, Bois Mystique. Bois Mystique is a modern and elegant fragrance, a worthy inheritor of this glorious heritage. What can be more thrilling than to emanate a mystical and intriguing aroma, truly masculine and woody. I adore masculine fragrances, they smell very strong, intense, and rich woody. The new perfume, Houbigant Bois Mystique is a pure example of a timeless elegant and at the same time very sensual.

Created by perfumer Luca Maffei, Houbigant Bois Mystique opens with a bracingly sour, juicy bergamot – a flash of the Italian sunshine – before warming it up with a hot ginger note that will have you licking your lips. A boozy, herbal davana note lends the cedarwood at the core an intense richness that recalls Port wine, leather saddles, and all sorts of sensual autumn aromas. A note of fresh, piney frankincense and bitter wormwood shimmers over ambery resins and the dried-grass note of papyrus, lending the scent a somewhat austere but mysterious character. At the heart of it all, a green cardamom note vibrates, sending out shockwaves of something both cool-watery and hot-spicy. A spice-laden delight that’s so light it seems to float on a wisp of smoke, this is spice done right.

 

Topnotes: Bergamot, Davana, Neroli, Cardamom, Fresh ginger, Pink pepper, Artemisia
Heart: Black pepper, Cinnamon, Incense, Cypriol, Orris root
Base: Gaiac wood, Cedarwood, Myrrh, Amber, Musk

The flacon recreates the unique though by René Lalique in the early 20th century for Maison Houbigant.

Houbigant Bois Mystique is available as 100ml Eau de Parfum and as 100ml Extait de Parfum.