Liquides Imaginaires
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The aldehydes hit like cold wax and stone, immediately sharpening the cypress into something almost ascetic whilst the citrus provides bitter pith rather than juice. There's an ozonic quality to the opening that feels like breathing mountain air laced with resin and green needles—austere, clean, unforgiving.
As the initial coldness recedes, the fir balsam emerges with its sweet-sticky character, tempered beautifully by lavender's herbal edge and the warm spice chorus. The pink pepper adds a fizzing quality that prevents the composition from becoming too solemn, whilst coriander and cardamom create subtle citric echoes that bridge back to the opening's brightness.
Pure incense ritual—frankincense and myrrh dominate, supported by the dark, leathery facets of labdanum and the earthy grounding of patchouli and vetiver. The ambergris provides a whisper of skin and salt beneath the smoke, whilst benzoin adds just enough balsamic sweetness to soften the ecclesiastical severity into something almost tender.
Sancti reads like incense smoke curling through a Mediterranean conifer forest at dawn. Sonia Constant opens with a striking aldehydic brightness that lifts the cypress and citrus into something far more austere than your typical woody aromatic—there's an almost chalky, waxy quality to those aldehydes that immediately announces ceremonial intent. The grapefruit and bergamot don't provide sweetness so much as a sharp, resinous bitterness that dovetails perfectly with the cypress's dry, pencil-shavings character. This is cold stone and green needles, not sunshine and beaches.
The heart thickens considerably as fir balsam meets pink pepper and a constellation of warming spices—cardamom and coriander add their lemonic facets whilst nutmeg brings warmth without sweetness. The lavender here feels more herbal than floral, almost medicinal, reinforcing the apothecary atmosphere. But it's the base where Sancti truly reveals its devotional nature: frankincense and myrrh create that unmistakable church incense accord, whilst labdanum and benzoin provide balsamic depth without veering gourmand. The ambergris adds a subtle saline mineral quality that keeps everything grounded and skin-like rather than purely ethereal.
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