Yuzu, violet leaves, vetiver

• Top notes
  › Bergamot: sparkling, floral, reminiscent of earl grey tea
  › Yuzu: tangy, citrusy
  › Lime: zesty, sparkling
  
  Heart notes
  › Jasmine: white flowers, fruity
  › Neroli: bitter orange flower, floral, sweet
  › Elemi: citrusy, peppery, resinous
  
  Base notes
  › Vetiver: woody, earthy, a little nutty
  › Musks: soft, comforting, cottony
  › Violet leaves: green, undergrowth, smells a bit like cucumber
  
  *The top notes are the first scents of the perfume. After a few minutes, the heart notes arrive and last for several hours. Then the base notes appear and can even persist for several days!

The story goes that these fresh waters popular among both men and women were invented by the Italian Giovanni Paolo Feminis in Cologne.

These refreshingly fragrant alcoholic lotions, made from herbs and citrus fruits such as lemon, bergamot and mandarin, were more of a medicine than a refined fragrance at the time. This miraculous water was used for its tonic effects.

Today, they are faceted with woody and musky notes to give us more depth, contrast and hold.

It is the Japanese cousin of lemon. It gives zesty, tangy and tonic notes at the head of perfumes. It gives a twist to the creations and provides the sensation of a blend of fresh fruits. This small citrus fruit is gaining popularity and is used in high perfumery as well as in high pastry.

You probably imagine a delicately floral smell, powdery and maybe a little sweet like violet candies. But make no mistake, this flower is mute, as we say in the industry. That is to say that his extraction is impossible. Instead, the perfumer uses its leaves with green, watery, earthy notes. The absolute of violet leaves is a raw material with a strong character. It can magnify and sign a composition or destroy it, the secret is hidden in the balance of the formula and the talent of the perfumer.

Vetiver is surely one of our favorite raw materials. We use its roots, after distillation. Each terroir gives it very particular facets. Olfactively, an essence from Reunion and Java are very different!

› Java: rather smoky and green.
› Haiti: grapefruit, more bitter.
› Reunion: the rarest, clear and fresh.

It is part of the refined base notes. Here, it is the Haiti vetiver that the perfumer uses. It signs the 003 with woody, fresh and a little earthy scents.

Alcohol denat., parfum (fragrance), aqua (water), citral, citronellol, geraniol, limonene, linalool