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Sample Cuir de Gardenia Perfume
Sample Cuir de Gardenia Perfume
 
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Scent Family: Floral
Cuir de Gardenia retains the unique beauty of the tiare flower, not allowing it to morph into the hundreds of petals of a floral bouquet. I had been incredibly fortunate to find an artisanal grower and distiller of the ultra-rare, costly, precious gardenia. In Cuir de Gardenia, I wanted to retain the pure loveliness of the creamy sweet and singular gardenia fragrance, and knew that the rounded warmth of an oil-based perfume (solid and liquid) would be the perfect format.

Cuir de Gardenia is unusual in that it has no top notes; I created it in such a way that the gardenia appears immediately, unimpeded from the opening of the perfume onward, merging seamlessly with the leather. The natural isolates ethyl phenyl acetate (reminiscent of a bunch of sweet peas) and the candy-like maltol contribute sweet and floral notes to the animalic base of the perfume.

Featured Notes in alcohol
Middle: tiare (gardenia) absolute, jasmine grandiflorum absolute, benzyl acetate.
Base: castoreum, ethyl phenyl acetate, maltol.

This small sample should provide 2 or 3 applications.
Our Price: $8.00

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Reviews
 
An all-natural perfume that takes luxury and sultriness to unimaginable heights. An animalic floral with a leathery twist.
-- Gaia Fishler, The Non-Blonde blog

This gardenia is VERY sweet and comely, mellifluous and naughty, luscious and celebratory. Immediately, for me, knee weakening. Not gardenia, as in gardenia, but plumeria; tiare: a tropical, moist, Neptunian, sultry white witch emerging, hair slicked to shoulders, from the sea. Sweet Italian bubble bath honey. Cuir: but fresh. Tango’s eminently wearable younger sister, unencumbered.
-- The Black Narcissus

If you prefer your florals fresh and clean, this is not a scent to go after. At the same time this gardenia is both demanding, sweet, nurturing, thoughtful and dead sexy – just like any one of us. I get facets of honey, metal, tropical fruits (especially pineapple) and hay. It’s leathery in a dark, dusky and cocoa-like way, not smoky at all. It lasts for a very long time and I can’t do justice in words of how perfect it is to showcase the light of the gardenia. Cuir de Gardenia has touched me deeply and is clearly (in my opinion) one of the best releases of this year!
-- Riktig Parfym

Cuir de Gardenia, the new perfume from Aftelier tells the story of luxury, eccentricity, and sensuality. The first whiff I got of this extraordinary perfume made me think of Marchesa Luisa Casati, the Italian aristocrat who said "I want to be a living work of art" who lived in Capri, wore live snakes as jewelry, had lovers all over Europe, and inspired artists and designers from Man Ray to Alexander McQueen.

Cuir de Gardenia is offered as an liquid and a solid perfume, to keep the warmth and sensuality on skin-level. This perfume is pure decadence-- you don't want to send it into the stratosphere on a cloud of volatile alcohol molecules. I suspect that beyond the preciousness of the raw materials, a big sillage would have been just too much for polite company: this thing requires intimacy, which this format allows. Applied where it truly counts, Cuir de Gardenia is sweet and intense. I find it incredibly sexy in a very femme way, but then again, I'm all woman. Men who feel comfortable in dirty gardenia fragrances (from JAR Jardenia to Lutens Une Voix Noire) shouldn't hesitate to try this Aftelier perfume in either liquid or solid form. They layer beautifully, obviously, and last for at least six hours even when dabbed extremely sparingly.
-- The Non-Blonde