Description

“Just as T. Gautier was inspired by the luscious colors of Delacroix, I found the sensuously atmospheric descriptions throughout the love story to evoke otherworldly perfumes and luminosities.
The phrase “ A twilight blue oriental perfume” most captured my imagination from the first time I heard it along with the image of faded flowers along side a bed of gold and silver, attended by a negro page wearing black velvet holding an ivory cane; and the satiny hand of “Clarimonde” as she lay dying. This cool, almost misty scene that might have been a last glimpse of Clarimonde paired with an alternate universe of warm opulence in Venice were always shimmering in my mind’s eye as I created “Paradise Lost”.

Top notes: wild blue chamomile, immortelle, pressed violets, golden champaca.
Heart notes: faded flowers, candlewax, oriental lotus, black orris.
Base notes: sable fur, fossilized amber, myrrh gum, bloody sweet accord, mitti.
Paradise Lost (Clarimonde Perfume Project) was launched in 2011. The nose behind this fragrance is Dawn Spencer Hurwitz.