REBEL VIOLET

FRAGMENTS

VIOLETTE REBELLE by Charles Berry · 2015

EDP 20%

Green apple, tagetes, and cyclamen open with the vegetal and slightly tart freshness of Norman chalk hills — the air before the flower, the height before the sweetness. The violet leaf in the heart brings its botanical reality: earthy, green, almost damp, the whole plant and not just the flower. The violet arrives later, powdery, tenuous, with cedar to give it body. The chalk at the base is not a metaphor — it is the very rock on which the flower grows, made tangible. Musks and ambroxan extend the sillage with the lightness of a petal carried by the wind. The Rouen violet grows on Norman chalk. There it remains.

Top: Green apple, Tagetes, Cyclamen
Heart: Violet leaf, Violet, Cedar
Base: Chalk, Musks, Ambroxan

Forgotten scent of violet,

Resurgence of the past, courtly love, tender gestures, caresses of the beloved

Soothing reveries of a languid countryside

A perfume whispered always from the lips, hidden in the heart of our daydreams, our secret passions, a small splash of colour in the meadow,

A veil of soft velvet and floral scents, a memory of rice powder, of icing sugar mixed with confectionery of antiquated souls, a vaporous silhouette and the whiteness of skin, a shy smile at the first kiss,

Time of innocence, of a cherished essence, held for a while, that one never wants to leave.

Olfactory nostalgia hidden in a small handkerchief, to be breathed once eyes are closed, when night falls and leaves us alone again. Found scent of violet,

Comfort now.

Charles BERRY, Rouen, 2015