Product Description:

• OUD Maison Francis Kurkdjian eau de parfum builds on a most precious ingredient, oud wood, imagined on the outskirts of a marble palace with gold carvings and lost against a midnight blue sky thick with stars.
• Driven by cedar and patchouli, it enters into a sensual conversation on the skin.
• Saffron and elami add sparkle and a golden elusive presence.
• Combining east and west, male and female, this OUD eau de parfum is pure mystery, a spicy ambery perfume that is spellbinding, soothing and magnificent.
  
• Fragrance Notes:
  
• Patchouli
  
• Native to Indonesia, this aromatic plant has almost no smell in the earth.
• It is first necessary to dry its leaves and to let them ferment for its odorous molecules to form.
• After distillation, the oil must be aged in barrels for several months to allow optimal use.
• When ready, Pogostemon cablin reveals a powerful woody and earthy scent with smoky, camphorated, syrupy and even musty accents.
• Some say it recalls the smell of a damp cellar. Greatly appreciated in France by women of easy virtue at the end of the 19th century, patchouli was for a long time considered a little vulgar.
• Then the hippie generation of the 70's adopted it as a symbol of freedom and popularized the fragrance. Although it no longer carries a scandalous reputation, its powerful scent continues to fascinate and is used in both feminine and masculine compositions.
  
• Saffron
• Coming from the pistil of a variety of crocuses, this most expensive spice in the world is nicknamed "red gold". Natural saffron is not used in perfumery because it contains safrol, a highly allergenic compound.
• But its effect is reproduced with one of its derivatives, saffronal.
• Its very powerful perfume is bitter and slightly metallic, blowing hot and cold on the rest of the composition with also a leathery, tarred facet.
• Francis Kurkdjian likes to use it in the top layer of a fragrance to break the sweetness of citrus notes.
• It is often associated with Oud-based perfumes and amber accords.
  
• Cedar
• As its name suggests, it belongs to the woody family.
• It intervenes in the heart and in the base, which brings a sort of verticality to the perfumes.
• In perfumery, we can use different types of cedar with more or less accentuated olfactory facets.
• The most commonly used is Virginia cedar, Juniperus Virginiana, with the typical odor that emerges when sharpening a pencil: woody, dry, slightly spicy and creamy. It is quite different from the two other major varieties used in perfumery, Texas cedar, which is drier, and Atlas cedar, which is animal and leathery.
  
• Elemi
  
• This tall tree belongs to the same botanical family as frankincense and myrrh.
• Like them, the Canarium commune produces a gum-resin when it is incised. It is a well-known panacea for many ailments in Asia and an incense to burn in China. Perfumers are particularly interested in the oil produced by distillation of this white gum.
• Its scent evoking lemon, lemony pepper and incense refreshes the top part of a perfume, with a slightly woody balsamic facet that extends into the heart.
• Oud
• The power and complexity of its musky, woody, leathery, smoky and honeyed scent is only matched by the mystery of its creation; largely random since it depends on the fungal infection of a Southeast Asian tree also known as Agarwood (Aquilaria).
• Only diseased specimens produce an aromatic resin that is distilled to obtain an oil.
• It is among the most sought-after ingredients, and is also one of the most expensive, resulting in poaching.
• This is why Francis Kurkdjian has chosen an Oud produced according to the principles of fair and sustainable trade.
• He combines its vibrant notes with intense flowers, spices and other woods for a bewitching sillage.
  

• Ambery
• Woody
  

• This product contains natural extracts. the presence of suspended particles or color variations do not alter its quality in any way.
• protect from direct light and sources of heat.
  
• The ingredients that enter in the composition of the maison francis kurkdjian products are regularly updated. before using a maison francis kurkdjian product, please read the ingredient list on its packaging to ensure that the ingredients are suitable for your personal use.
  

• alcohol; parfum (fragrance); aqua (water/eau); tetramethyl acetyloctahydronaphthalenes; triethyl citrate; juniperus virginiana oil; linalool; linalyl acetate; hydroxycitronellal; pogostemon cablin oil; vanillin; limonene; citronellol; butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane; geranyl acetate; beta-caryophyllene; geraniol; eugenol; cedrus atlantica oil/extract; pelargonium graveolens flower oil; pentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate; pinene; terpineol; dipropylene glycol; rose ketones; terpinolene; alpha-terpinene; citral; carvone. - 2foud2