French niche line Pierre Guillaume has launched the Contemplation Collection, with eight fragrances: Au-Delà Du Noir, Au Royaume des Femmes, Bagatelle Roma, Femme en Smoking, Habanera, Irizia Pearl, Les Racines du Mâle and Lumière Fauve.

Au-Delà Du Noir ~ Woody fruity animalic. "“Always further into the melancholy and into the light” – Claude Debussy A chimerical hybrid between the bouquet of a mythical red wine and an incense of oud. Among the great vintages of the Côte de Nuits, there is one whose bouquet impregnated my memory for ever… In this creation, the reminiscences of this exceptional black wave with red reflections match the animal incandescence of Kyara Wood, beyond black." With davana, blackcurrant bud, spices, animalic notes and kyara wood.

Au Royaume des Femmes ~ Animalic amber floral. "On the shores of Lake Lugu, on the edge of the Himalayas, the country of the Mosuo is known as the kingdom of women. This people of ancient nomads is one of the last matriarchal societies on the planet: all the privileges and powers belong to women. Au royaume des femmes is a peppery rose and tonka bean set on a bed of animalized benzoin… a hybrid between tribal warrior and disco diva, my olfactory allegory of female empowerment."

Bagatelle Roma (shown) ~ Leathery floral. "When we had just opened our Parisian boutique, one of my colleagues asked me for an hour to pick up two rosebushes from the Bagatelle rose garden sales. He returned to the Palais Royal on his old vintage Vespa, the flower pots on the luggage rack, soaked by a rain shower. Under my nose, the scent of old roses, the smell of damp earth and green leaves after the rain and the Vespa’s exhalations of petrol and leather… A snapshot of Italian Dolce Vita in the heart of Paris, which I will freeze in a perfume: Bagatelle Roma." With roses, blackcurrant leaves, petrichor and leather.

Femme en Smoking ~ Woody spicy floral. "The smell of charcoal gliding over the drawing board, while a young designer, not yet a Grand Couturier, sketches a silhouette similar to a floral chalice, a Black Calla, a woman in a dinner jacket." With black calla, cardamom, incense, iris, honey, cedar and sandalwood.

Habanera ~ Spicy gourmand amber tobacco. "An explosive and torrid amber inspired by the lascivious rhythm of a South American dance, the skins brush against each other and seek each other out, in a sensual game of body to body. Habanera is a procession of “balsams under tension” carried by volutes of Cuban tobacco, leather on a Mexican copal accord, saffron and candied rose."  Additional notes include benzoin.

Irizia Pearl ~ Sweet floral green woody. "A cocoon of sap, soft woods and balms… Between fresh green sap and soft, enveloping balsams, the structure of Irizia Pearl evokes the pulsations of concentric olfactory spheres, forming a Cocoon, of which it is the fragrant allegory. All the notes appear as soon as they take flight and never really disappear to make room for others. They all resonate in unison with a heart of White Pearl Jasmine, surrounded by a shell of balsams and sweet woods with a vapour of rice and sandalwood sap." Additional notes include cashmere wood, amber and musk.

Les Racines du Mâle ~ Woody ambery leathery. "Les Racines du Mâle is a mystical, venomous vetiver that rises into a complex, resinous, warm and amber woody vapour. After the 15 weeks of maceration necessary for each of the materials making up the fragrance to fully reveal their beauty and power, a metamorphosis takes place. In the middle of the vetiver roots grew leather roots. The product of an olfactory autogenesis, a chimerical note that the perfumer neither conceived nor anticipated, this unexpected “leathery wave” extends like a shadow over the composition, bringing it elegance and mystery." Additional notes include incense and tar vapour, guaiac wood.

Lumière Fauve ~ Dry woods musky leathery. "Not an amber, nor a chypre… A fawn. The most animalistic of our Musks, radical, passionate and incandescent. In the lion’s cage… a feline facing its tamer, dodges the slaps of the whip, in a sweep of swaying steps. While from the shadows and bleachers rise the scent of tobacco and cocoa, the leather ties hit the dance floor flooded with the light of the spotlights, like an intense accord of ylang-ylang and honey that blinds and inflames the senses." Additional notes include hyraceum (Africa stone).

Pierre Guillaume Au-Delà Du Noir, Au Royaume des Femmes, Bagatelle Roma, Femme en Smoking, Habanera, Irizia Pearl, Les Racines du Mâle and Lumière Fauve are available in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum.

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