Costume National Scents Soul Perfume

This fragrance is the shape of CoSTUME NATIONAL’s soul. A yearning for absolute purity, a perfect synthesis of elegance and style. A unique, sartorial olfactory experience, defined in every essential detail, Soul refines contemporary sensibilities in an instinctive and natural olfactory language. Giving life – in the bottle sculpted by Ennio Capasa – to a symphony with a unique, noble and essential amber heart. Reason succumbs to the heart in a contemporary romantic soul.

The Fragrance
The logic of reason is entrusted to the notes of cardamom, pink pepper and bergamot which disperse through the top notes in a spicy mantra and open to the heart of the fragrance with the intense notes of geranium and oud wood. The base notes of the fragrance allow themselves to be engulfed by the rare purity of the ambergris. Soul unveils rarefied cosmopolitan atmospheres, independent in essential nature and in the intimate olfactory power of the ambergris, vanilla pods and patchouli. Sense and sensibility, sophisticated elegance and noble purity.

PERFUMER
Dominique Ropion
Dominique Ropion trained at Roure Bertrand Dupont in Grasse, then in Paris before joining Jean-Luc Sieuzac, on of the greatest technicians in perfumery. A star perfumer at IFF, his work stands out thanks to a mix of precision and freedom, to his taste for risk and experimentation. Curious by nature, as perfectionist as watchmaker, he creates his accords in a methodical, patient and precise way. Dominique Ropion likes combining opposites to unveil new equilibriums and surprising formulas. He is a daring, instinctive, yet also very rigorous formulator. A man who is particularly inventive, an extraordinary technician.

Distinctive note: OUD WOOD

SMELL: warm, hypnotic, woody, resinous, reminiscent of sandalwood.

ORIGIN: the oud is a rare tree originating in South-East Asia and India. This resinous wood, which is also called agarwood, is valued in many cultures for its distinctive fragrance and is used in many incenses and perfumes. The odour of the oud is complex, with few natural comparable equivalents. The essential oil was used during religious ceremonies in ancient civilisations.

EXTRACTION: The essence is obtained by distillation of the solidified dark part of the resin.