Farmasi
Farmasi
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A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The citrus trio erupts with immediate brightness—blood orange's dark sweetness clashing pleasantly against the slightly sour green mandarin and the perfumed soapiness of bitter orange blossom. It's almost sharp, almost verging on metallic, demanding attention rather than seduction.
Within an hour, the composition pivots dramatically. Labdanum and heliotrope establish themselves as the true heart, and the prune note emerges with surprising boldness—suddenly you're smelling something dark and almost dessert-like, whilst the floral notes (particularly that slightly tart may rose) prevent the sweetness from becoming saccharine. The fragrance becomes warmer, softer, yet retains an underlying resinous dryness.
The base notes settle into a harmonious contradiction: honey and vanilla provide creamy sweetness, but frankincense and styrax keep everything slightly austere, slightly burnt-smelling. The citrus has vanished entirely. What remains is a warm, resinous, amber-tinged sweetness that's more oriental than fresh, intimate rather than projecting.
Bonjour announces itself as something caught between the Mediterranean and the apothecary—a fragrance that refuses easy categorisation. The three citrus notes in the opening create a peculiar tension: Sicilian blood orange's jammy ripeness wrestles with bitter orange blossom's soapy aldehydic edge, whilst green mandarin adds a bright, almost herbal counterpoint. This isn't the cheerful citrus of mainstream fragrance; it's citrus with character, almost medicinal in its insistence.
Where Bonjour becomes genuinely compelling is in the heart, where labdanum's dark resin and heliotrope's powdery almond warmth transform the composition into something altogether more complex. The may rose arrives not as a soft floral cushion but as a slightly green, slightly tart accent—it plays against, rather than with, the heliotrope. Then comes prune: dark, prunelike, genuinely jammy. This is sweet, yes, but the sweetness has teeth. It's not cloying; it's almost savoury in its depth, the way dried fruit reads differently than refined sugar.
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