Description
It is said this is one of the most beautiful flowers which has never existed. Exotic, foreign, and yet so familiar. It is said that it is worth more than all the gold of which kings can adorn their palaces. More than all the love that men can put in their heart. The most fabulous myths and legends were woven on her beauty. For her, wars divided men.
It is said that one day, in the roaring twenties, it marked the heart of a young perfumer so deeply that he wanted to compose his first fragrance around. But its perfume faded in an ethereal breath; elusive, fainting as it flourished. He could not bring himself to let this beauty escape, spinning between his fingers and through his heart. He forgot everything, thinking only of itself, going through this garden where the lost souls bloom.
In the lineage of its history, Le Galion celebrates the woman once more and adds a new chapter to its history. Ode to flowers, subtle alliance of modernity and great classic perfumery, Rodrigo Flores-Roux signs a rich and flourished fragrance. A great floral, of the name of the first perfume created by Paul Vacher, which resonates like a new era for the house Le Galion. That of audacity and Conquest.
L’âme Perdue was launched in 2017.
домовенок – :
A very warm spicy indolic oriental lily opens up the gate to the hidden garden of lost souls, as we enter the stars sprinkle their light over still hot sunkissed glowy skin, postcoitum happiness makes our eyes soft as we enter a very puzzling maze, a labyrinth of thoughts and memories…
The scent is recongnicable but very hard to capture, it plays a teasing game of hide and seek. We try to crasp it but we are lost. Almost there! It’s on the tip of the toungue but then it slips away.
L’âme Perdue is a scent for the fragrance coinnesuer who love the questionmarks and a bit of scratch, resistance, mystery and nostalgia and the dirty side of sexiness, patient people that can bid their time and embrace the unknown.
It makes sence that this mystery potion was orginally made in a time gone buy… A time when people wanted perfumes that married with their skin and their personal intimate odour.
My references are a bit of Youth Dew and the orginal vintage Opiums drydown that sweet dark and spicy thick cola note; patchouli, cinnamon a bit of adult bodily zing from citruses, mind you this is not a refreshing fun and fizzy brew the drydown is dusty and powdery but it’s the essence of a dark spicy beating heart that sometimes leapes out of the expected and mondane and indulges in decadent Studio 54 hedonism.
As a soundtrack I choose Roxy Music; moody and romantic, the photographer of choice would be Helmut Newton on a here and now documenting mood. The place- a garden after dark, after lovemaking, after a party. L’Âme Perdue is very much a scent of “after”. We suck like vampires on sweet candy; memories more recent and those burried deep down and perhaps lost for ever.
This fragrance is a milestone for me on my fragrant journey. A couple of years ago I described my mothers late seventies Opium as scary, nucklear and tould my fellow fragrant friend, if I ever happened to sniff it again that I was frightened that the memories would hurt me and perhaps make me cry. I might add to this story that I lost my mother several decades ago and I’m a grown women in my early fifties.
Now I have come this far; I know that perfumes aswell as tears can heal us and there is absolutly nothing to be scared of and there is absolutly nothing wrong to be emotionally moved by the art of perfumery.
Today I would much like to sniff the vintage Opium and check how well my olfactory memory has kept it and compare it with the beautiful L’Âme Perdue. And Im actually thankful to the house of Le Galion for putting L’Âme Perdue on my to buy a full bottle list.
elumen – :
L’Âme Perdue (Âme) translates a rather melancholic name (Lost Soul) into a memory of a scent. There are references, with Rochas Femme and Dior Dune being the main ones, but it evokes the pensive sadness L’Heure Bleue can provoke upon first wearings.
Âme, to me, evokes a secluded beach, dunes, a grey cast sky and lilies being sprayed with sea salt water in the breeze. It’s one of the few recent fragrances that can transmit such feelings and emotions, although it’s said to have been inspired by a long lost and forgotten Le Galion formula, and a perfume created for Lanvin.
The main notes that I sense are Cala lilies, plum, creamy ylang ylang that reminds me of the smell of older sunscreens, in particular tanning oils that were popular not so long ago, and cloves, even though the scent does not read tropical or beachy at all. It’s simply a particular smell of rubber, heated skin, cold cream and coconut that scented my childhood when even children were doused with low spf suntan oil. It smells of my youth.
This creaminess caries hints of honey, moss, a sharp citrousness (mirabelle?) that comes and goes, and cinnamon, momentarily reminding me of Mitsouko as well. What starts out as creamy and languid, becomes plummier and spicier as the fragrance develops, with the vanilla and the woods giving a certain airy dustiness. In image, it captures perfectly the imagery of Dior’s Dune first ad. In scent, is Femme de Rochas, worn by a solitary soul gazing at the horizon while the ocean hits the rocks.
I’ve been wearing it on a regular basis since I got my sample and every time I wear it I discover something new. And while at first I dismissed it as something that I’ve smelt before, it keeps pulling me in.
L’Âme Perdue is a very evocative fragrance; at once creamy, sweet, honeyed, spicy, there’s a certain fragility that becomes steel strong as it progresses on skin. As if to remind us that there will always be a new dawn. It feels vintage but modern; creating something avant garde that will last in time.
Very long lasting with above average sillage throughout!