Indie brand Eris Parfums has launched Mother's Milk, a new fragrance.

The word “Mother” evokes primal ideas: need, comfort, protection, nourishment, desire, love, and fear. Fantasies, in short. And it could be argued that the entire “gourmand” category in perfumery, starting with vanilla as the essence, derives from a primordial inspiration: mother’s milk.

MOTHER'S MILK, a milky floral animalic perfume by ERIS explores fantasies of the “Good” and “Bad” mother through scent. It’s an olfactory montage of milky vanilla, a whisper of rose, the soft-focus blur of buttery Orris (from the precious dried roots of Iris flowers), and a hint of darkness.

That dissonant, slightly dark note in MOTHER’S MILK disrupts the simplistic comfort that can be found in most gourmand fragrances, reminding us that perfume is an adult pleasure.

[...] “In Mother’s Milk, I was asked to create an extremely milky fragrance that symbolized children’s fantasies of their mothers as either ‘good’ or ‘bad. ’For the ‘Good Mother,’ I drew from a fond memory: the smell of my children’s heads when my wife was breastfeeding them, a creamy and addictive odor of hot milk and Orris root. The perfume’s ‘Bad Mother’ was created through the animalic darkness of suede.” - Antonie Lie, Perfumer

Additional notes include cacao, musk and sandalwood.

Eris Parfums Mother's Milk is available in 50 ml Extrait de Parfum, $250.

(via erisparfums)

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