Aedes de venustas Grenadille d'Afrique Eau de Parfum - 100 ml

Aedes de Venustas Grenadille d'Afrique Eau de Parfum is a unisex aromatic perfume. A tribute to the ancient African Blackwood and its majestic home. From crackling sap to balsamic resin. From smoked wood to sunlit stone. From purple twilight to inky black night. Grenadille d'Afrique Eau de Parfum expresses not only the name of the tree, but also the primordial landscape in which it grows. We start with the African Blackwood tree, a rare and expensive member of the rosewood family whose Latin name, Dalbergia melanoxylon, translates to "black wood." The title belies the variety of its wood, which ranges from deep purple to brownish black and is also known as granadilla. The ancient Egyptians, who called it h'bny, made precious furniture from its heartwood. Alberto Morillas transforms it into an olfactory sculpture of great elegance. Covered from twigs to roots by an aromatic and fragrant juniper sap, the legendary African Blackwood plant is built around a "trunk" of Haitian vetiver. With its complex facets of wood, smoke, earth and flint, it is the vertical axis that unites the vegetal, animal and mineral notes of the fragrance. Upon first breathing, it's hard to tell whether the scent places us at dusk or dawn. Shimmering bergamot catches the sun's last rays, while a purple mist of lavender and violet scatters its dusty moonlight across the savannah grasslands. Later in its life, vanilla, transformed into combustible resin by a lashing of amber cistus labdanum, exudes a balsamic warmth. Bleached wood, skin-soft bark and sun-warmed stone release the heat of the day into the inky black night, cooled by a mossy breeze. Morillas describes his creation as "fossilized wood rubbed in a vanilla accord", a highly contrasted composition that enriches its dark heart with bright notes. GRENADILLE D'AFRIQUE explores a new region on the perfume map, where woods and resins meet ink and stone. | More Information Olfactory Notes: African Black Wood Accord, Vetiver, Cistus Labdanum, Juniper, Vanilla, Bergamot, Lavender, Violet. | Perfumer: Alberto Morillas