For some, it is a treasure of nature with prodigious medicinal properties.
For others, it is the foundations of a ritualized spirituality, capable of seducing luck and chasing away evil spirits.
Whether we attribute to it the vocations of a great healer or simple purifying virtues, Palo Santo, this South American wood of indigenous ancestry, charms Western souls in search of a rejuvenating mysticism.
Tom Ford understood.
Calm, luxury and spirituality
A customary of intoxicating elixirs, the Texan designer was indeed inspired by the cathartic essence of this exotic tree to develop SMOKED EBONY, a new opus from the Private Blend collection, this range of perfumes with a high-end and experimental composition, which the designer describes himself as his fragrance laboratory.
“I wanted a scent that captures that meditative feeling
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Tom Ford says of SMOKED EBONY.
“He has a spiritual sensuality that uplifts your spirit, which can be the most spellbinding of pleasures. "
Galvanizing the saving benefits of Palo Santo thanks to the resolutely sensory notes of African ebony, the perfume outlines from the first scent an atmosphere of absolute serenity, which draws its aura from the shamanic ceremonies which, even today, transcend their participants. with their purifying breath.
A liberating experience, which materializes through this refined fragrance and its captivating accord in which the volutes of smoke of Palo Santo are intertwined.
Or when opulence meets mindfulness.
Tom Ford's Private Blend SMOKED EBONY 50 ML Tom Ford
A woody olfactory partition
A subtle blend of warm woods, fresh herbs, bewitching resins and opulent flowers, SMOKED EBONY indeed reveals an aromatic fragrance to which are added notes of incense, citrus, pine needles and earth. On an ostensibly woody score, the nuances of cade essence and Orpur cistus absolute unveil the heart of the fragrance, while violet leaves and black pepper absolute blend harmoniously with its soaring. An elegant olfactory warmth emanates from it, sublimated by African ebony wood, with nocturnal sensuality, which Tom Ford captures here in divine copper and resinous notes. And while one notices finely the essence of papyrus or that of the splendid roses also summoned in this agreement,we let ourselves be carried away by the ardent smoke of guaiac wood, which, alongside the natural essences of balsamic, supports with sophistication that of ebony. ÉBÈNE FUMÉ thus promises a dizzying waltz of the senses, which its transparent bottle with an evocative design comes to magnify with sumptuousness. More than a perfume, a real talisman.
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