French niche line Jardins D’Écrivains has launched Orlando, a new unisex fragrance:
Jardins d'Ecrivains puts its own interpretation on the fascinating Virginia Woolf fantasy. An androgynous character with eternal youth, Lord Orlando in the Elizabethan era becomes Lady Orlando in the 18th century. Eau de parfum for men and women.
With orange, pink pepper, ginger, amber, patchouli, cloves, gaiac wood, musk and Peru balsam.
Jardins D’Écrivains Orlando can be found now at Beautyhabit, in 100 ml Eau de Parfum, $110.
(via beautyhabit)
Update: see a review for Jardins D’Écrivains Orlando.
What a beautiful name! Garden of Writers. Can’t wait to try it.
It really is a great idea for a perfume brand.
How do you feel about fresh flowers and human fragrance art? Both so lovely but so different. I live in Hawaii around fresh gardenias, jasmine, tuberoses, pakalana, lilikoi fruit and flowers. But I also love Le Parfum de Therese, a few others.
Not sure exactly what you mean…but I also love fresh flowers AND Therese.
Thx for your reply. I mean I sometimes have to turn off my fresh-flower-nose when I’m shopping for commercial fragrances. Not “fair” or very useful to compare the smell of fresh gardenias with fragrances that use the same name, but I’d love to know about fragrance houses who do make good replications of fresh flower scents. Living in Hawaii, I’m just appalled at some of the stuff that companies market as “plumeria”, “frangipani”, “gardenia”. I’m on a lifelong search for the bottled smell of fresh bearded iris, which I can’t grow here. (So spoiled 🙂
Ah, I see what you mean. I don’t think I think of perfume as having to replicate nature to smell great…but good luck finding your bearded iris scent!