In tribute to the dying days of summer I have been playing with a beautiful peach accord for a potential client and imagining the applications. I want to take this gorgeous scent that is everything sunny and warm and take it with me through the colder months. However, everybody knows that the fruits of a hot season take on a strange foreign quality when transplanted into the colder times so I began to think about the scents that work in winter and how to incorporate a bit of summer memory link. Chypre is the perfect combination with peach I think( Mitsouko is a fine example ) but I want mine to have a fruit dominance over the warm mystique of the Chypre accord.
So far I have taken a traditional chypre accord and woven through it warm sweet green notes for a soft leafy sensual foundation. Then comes the rich fruity heart.
Most fruit notes are too top weighted and wont hold in the form I like. They end up smelling of sour berries and rotting leaves which I cannot stand. Orchard fruits, like peaches have a subtleness that awaken the heart and stir the passions but the scent must hold its form and not change too much. They are the perfect balance of sour, sweet, green and animalic and held together with a clear light floral. Osmanthus, boronia, jasmine sambac, musk and of course the peach accord move together beautifully and once nestled in the warmth of the chypre foundation produce a sensational combination.
I am enjoying more with each uplifting and intriguing breath. There is still more work to do but so far it is a perfume that is very special.
I will keep you posted in its progress.
Cheers
The Baroness
