Puente Perfumes Vespertine and Iris Doux (Eliam Puente) 2023 + The Artwork of Seduction Giveaway

Puente Perfumes Vespertine and Puente Perfumes Iris Doux courtesy of the perfumer collage by Michelyn

My phrase. Some perfumes depart you breathless, and it turns into immaterial what you might have thought your preferences have been beforehand. So it’s with the aromatic compositions of Eliam Puente of Puente Perfumes, who made his fragrant debut final yr with the beautiful Medusa, certainly one of my high 10 scents of 2022. How does one observe in these footsteps? You create two extra swoony potions named Vespertine and Iris Doux. Many perfumers have composed memorable fragrances which swirl round tuberose and iris like a whirling dervish – however the two latest Puente Perfumes reinforce one’s conclusion that they’re being held captive by a bona fide voluptuary.

Eliam Puente of Puente Perfumes

Years in the past, if anybody inquired as as to whether or not I used to be a floral woman, I’d have mentioned NO. Ironic that, in that I relish so many perfumes that are predominantly floral – however as I reduce my milk tooth on chypres, leathers, and fougères, that is how I envisioned myself. WRONG. In masterful fingers, I’m rendered helpless by the facility of the flower, particularly when it’s portrayed in a slithery, sensual gentle. That is what occurred final week, when my samples from Eliam arrived. I intentionally extended my anticipated pleasure in an effort to reveal self-discipline – and never waste a single drop till I used to be able to evaluate them. That point is now.

Collage of Puente Perfumes Vespertine and tuberose by Michelyn photographs by way of the perfumer

Allow us to start with Puente Perfumes Vespertine, whose identify refers to nightfall (it means “of the evening”.). Tuberose is a night-blooming flower: potent, bewitching, intoxicating. Tuberose personifies Girl Caroline Lamb’s assertion concerning her lover, Lord Byron: it’s “mad, dangerous, and harmful to know”. Our treasured Elise Pearlstine could be very clear when she reminds us that younger girls throughout the Renaissance have been to be discouraged from traipsing by the gardens after darkish, lest they fall beneath the blossom’s aphrodisiacal spell. Unwed maidens in France have been equally cautioned – and the Victorians (bless their hearts) related tuberose with unbridled sensuality and sure, even dying itself; how very like them. Perfumer Eliam Puente performs upon this to extraordinary lengths, and fairly shamelessly: think about 5 wildly indolic blooms conspiring to woo you – specifically, tuberose, jasmine, ylang-ylang, orange blossom and narcissus. Eliam then beds these hussies in a velvety sandalwood and vetiver quilt embroidered with ambery, musky threads. Resistance is futile. I ran off to buy a bottle earlier than I completed writing about it. Vespertine Notes: Tuberose, Jasmine, Ylang Ylang, Orange Blossom, Narcissus, Sandalwood, Vetiver, Amber Notes, Cashmeran® (IFF, aka musk indanone)

Puente Perfumes Iris Doux collage by Michelyn utilizing iris picture by way of unsplash and bottle picture by perfumer

 Puente Perfumes Iris Doux (light, tender, or comfortable iris) is equally stunning in a wholly totally different vein. Aptly named, Iris Doux is supremely tender and cossetting. Its delicacy is each elegant and scrumptious, as iris transforms into an intricate buttery floral pastry flavored with tonka and a woody vanilla. Right here mimosa, ylang-ylang, and jasmine show their sympathetic candy nature, with little of the animalic underbelly which one usually experiences; a modicum of floral/natural geranium contributes its sunny disposition and a shaft of sunshine.  A kiss of cedar, the mellowness of sandalwood present a comfortable touchdown. Typically, within the drydown – Iris Doux echoes Caron’s beautiful Farnesiana by Michael Morsetti, sans opoponax or heliotropin (or muguet and lilac notes) – and that’s excessive reward certainly. This isn’t a child powder fragrance, however an grownup one – confirming that brash isn’t one’s solely possibility within the artwork of seduction. Iris Doux Notes: Iris Pallida, Ylang Ylang, Mimosa, Geranium, Frangipani, Jasmine, Cedarwood, Sandalwood, Tonka Bean, Vanilla

Samples kindly offered by the perfumer – many thanks! I like them!  My nostril is my very own…

~ Ida Meister, Deputy and Pure Perfume Editor

Puente Perfumes Vespertine and Iris Doux collage by Michelyn utilizing photographs from the perfumer

Because of the largesse of perfumer Eliam Puente we have now a 12.5 ml flacon of EITHER  Puente Perfumes Vespertine or Puente Perfumes Iris Doux for one registered reader within the EU, USA, UK or Canada. You should register of your remark won’t rely. To be eligible, please depart a remark concerning what appealed to you in Ida’s evaluate of Puente Perfumes Vespertine and Iris Doux, the place you reside, and which of the 2 you would favor do you have to win. Giveaway closes 2/25/2023 and the winner can be introduced inside 10 days later.

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