French niche line Pierre Guillaume will introduce 20.2 Eglise de Velours, a new incense fragrance, in February. Eglise de Velours is the second fragrance in the series that started with 2008's L'Eau Guerrière, followed by 2019's 20.1 Sorong.

The smell of a Couture House… Paris, July 1997, the final preparations for a haute couture show. Velvet Napoleon III chairs, rolls of precious fabrics lining the walls, wisps of cigarette smoke float in the air. A familiar voice, slow and fragile, breaks the monastic silence that reigns in this place. A model with the face of a Madonna emerges from a room accompanied by two seamstresses helping her with the ruffles of a dress under construction. Barely concealed by a transparent black silk blouse, her breasts vibrate to the rhythm of her hurried steps. There’s something divine about this temple of beauty: the solemnity, the meditation, the fervour of the “Atelier faithful” around the Creator-Demiurge. Doubt and then the miracle: inspiration and the advent of creation. To enter here, is like to enter a church… of velvet (église de Velours).

A vibrato of wild silk, a vapour of incense, myrrh, a velvet of musks. Eglise de Velours is a caress of incense. Olibanum resin, meditative and mystical, is diverted from its purely atmospheric nature: it becomes epidermal, carnal and velvety. True to the PG style, Eglise de Velours is the subject of a silent conversation between soul and skin.

Additional notes include hinoki.

Pierre Guillaume Eglise de Velours will (probably) be available in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum. 

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