I love the sensual.

For me this

and love for the sun

has a share in brilliance and beauty.

Sappho

Top notes are extremely volatile accords and last from a few seconds to a few minutes. They make the initial impression when you test or wear your perfume. Most citrus, some florals and herbs, mostly essential oils, constitute this elusive part of a fragrance. Some do mingle with the heart and base which help them linger longer on your skin which makes the plant scent chemistry and complexity so amazing, in many cases not studied as deep as man made aroma chemicals.

So why do we need, in many cases so common and, in some cases, so precious and expensive top notes? Just as a human mind is so used to structuring and categorising things around, we feel better if what we use every day is highly organised. Think of perfumery and in particular, botanical perfumery, as art, not being able to be explored by the perfumer himself/herself due to nature itself. Let's disassemble the fragrance and restructure it based on our needs.

The ethereal top notes invite us to look into the perfume, to stay by it and wait for more. This is their primary function. What if there is no need for that at all. What if the scent is a purely and highly functional blend which is made to elevate all other plant fragrances?

Consider Priesse as a medium which is supposed interact with your skin scent and the perfume you wear​ to enhance and make it last longer. Priesse has zero top notes and consists of mostly base ones, this is why it is much more pronounced and feels more like extrait de parfum. Apply a small amount under any natural scent or wear it on its own, I recommend it for evenings and colder days.

A symbol of love, Sappho, wrote emotional poems which had to be accompanied by a lyre. Although portraying mostly homoerotic feelings, the Poetess, wrote beautiful lines, from which only fragments have been preserved and which still find resonance in today`s world.

In the new perfume I am blending the archaic, the carnal, the vital and, of course, the poetical. The essence of the perfume lies in the presentation of the scent of skin immersed in seduction, physical love, attraction. Whatever Sappho`s sexuality was, perhaps, we will never know it, it is pure desire which keeps us alive. I have chosen animalic, slightly sweet and salty notes to imitate the scent of lovers’ skin.

Animalic notes have always been attracting perfumers and were one of the first ingredients used in perfumery but these days the world has become more conscious. I do not use any animal ingredients. But for a perfumer with an artistic soul it is just exciting to create a blend which might still have some leather and musk tones but only completely cruelty free ones.

Priesse does not look like any of my perfumes created before. It does not have those floral or vintage nuances. It is a different concept, something I wanted to create for a long time. Priesse does not have any top notes. I want you to indulge in its heart and base notes as soon as the oils touch your skin. 

Ambra (ambergris imitation using botanical ingredients), as my own interpretation and vision lies in the base of the fragrance. Jasmine, cocoa, vanilla. indole and botanical musk add a touch of seductiveness.

The perfume starts with slightly salty and balsamic notes which vanish into velvet lush notes of ambra with the key notes of seaweed, cistus, liquidambar which create a leathery, woody-vanilla, animalic heart-base accord. 

The scent of the perfume does sound seductive, although for some people it may smell sweaty and remind of dirty skin covered with rotten indolic exotics. But those are the notes which in small amounts create a deep unisex entity, soaked in lure.

As all my perfumes it is unisex but has a peculiar character and can be worn as the base for other natural perfumes including floral and oriental ones.