Moonlight
Brocard
To understand this perfume you need to ponder on the nature of moonlight and the fact that it is only sunlight reflected off the lifeless satellite.
The perfume feels even more tender, a bit like the Moon’s reflection in a pond. The formula is a uniform gentle flow of cool spices, splashes of freesia, mimosa and iris interlaced with oakmoss and musk. It stays close to skin as if designed to be a secret known only by the wearer.
The bottle deserves a separate mention, it's heavy crystal with exactly 57 facets, the same number you have in the classic diamond cut, the perfect number to capture light inside the crystal and to make it pulse within.
You can actually spin the bottle (the base has been cut in a special way) to admire the play of light inside the moonstone coloured tincture.
Fragrance Facts
Head notes: Cardamom, Freesia, Melon, Mint, Pink pepper
Heart notes: Iris, Mimosa, Peony, Sea spray, Lotus, Orange blossom, Rose, Violet
Base notes: Amber, Musk, Oakmoss, Vetiver
Perfumer: Bertrand Duchaufour
Year of Release: 2017
Conception: Moscow, Russia
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Brocard Group was founded in 1991 and and for 25 years is one of the leaders in the perfumes and cosmetics market in Russia. The ambition of Brocard is to revive the traditions of the art of Russian perfumery, the guild of Henri Brocard, Alexander Ostroumov, Rallet, who provided their products to the imperial court and won the recognition of customers, Russian and European by the quality, diversity and originality of their floral cologne and scented waters. The Brocard Group has been the winner of the International FiFi awards "Breakthrough of the Year"!
Bertrand Duchaufour
Bertrand began his perfumer career in Grasse in 1985. He learned from the senior Master Perfumers at Florasynth and Symrise and shaped during all these years his own approach to Perfumery.
“I had acquired a very specific approach to perfumery, which is that of all the perfumers in the big labs. By becoming independent, by working in my own lab, directly on my formulas, by weighing them, I’ve developed a different approach to perfumery, another way of building my perfumes. My control over raw materials is getting better and better”. - Bertrand Duchaufour.
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