On this planet of PerfumeTok, Delina went viral with 105.6 million posts for its fruity floral perfume that wraps pores and skin in rose, rhubarb and vanilla.
Parfums de Marly’s Palatine, the model’s newest fragrance, is poised to turn out to be simply as Web well-known because of intelligent chemistry and a backstory that can make you smile with each spritz.
As anticipated, its elaborate, tasseled glass bottle with bejewelled crystal lid offers a nod to the lavishness of an 18th century French chateau. However in the identical method that Sofia Coppola’s movie Marie Antoinette mixes interval items with new wave music from the ‘70s and ’80s, Palatine takes an old-school uncooked fragrance ingredient and provides it a contemporary lease of life.
Let me clarify. In perfumery, violet petals have historically been used to lend a sure kind of frilly sweetness to a scent. Think about spritzing nice huge powdery wafts of Parma Violets sweets onto your pulse factors, and also you get the image. It earned perfumes that go heavy on violet a popularity for being dowdy, fusty and, above all, old style.
However Palatine is totally different. The precise scent of violet petals is not the results of plucking the flower to extract the perfume. As a substitute, breakthrough Headspace know-how was used, the place the flower’s scent is launched beneath a glass dome and the molecules within the air are measured.
This allowed Julien Sprecher, founder and inventive director of Parfums de Marly, to maneuver the scent away from smelling like your grandmother’s wardrobe or to be an excessive amount of like a pores and skin scent. As a substitute the violet petals have been re-interpreted to scent barely candy but additionally tart, in order that they’ve this actually edible, binge-worthy enchantment.
Then in an attention-grabbing feminist plot twist, Parfums de Marly’s Palatine took a historically masculine observe in colognes – lavandin – and dropped it into the guts of this overtly female fragrance to actually amplify the sharp tang of those violet petals.
Fairly intelligent, no? It is also becoming because the fragrance’s namesake was Elizabeth Charlotte of Bavaria, a.ok.a Princess Palatine, who was famend for her free spirit and independence in Chateau de Marly’s courtroom – a rarity for a lady within the seventeenth century.
“To rejoice that audacity, I needed to revisit the violet petal, a observe that tends to be perceived as conventional, and make it the heroine of a composition that’s, quite the opposite, fairly modern and surprising,” says Julien.
What does Parfums de Marly’s Palatine scent like?
I am not usually a floral fragrance lover however there’s simply one thing about Palatine that attracts me in for a second, third…and fourth sniff. I believe the most important motive for this, is that it does not lean into traditional jasmine, rose or lily.