DISCOVER D'ORSAY
In 2015, Amélie Huynh discovered D’ORSAY, as one finds a Sleeping Beauty. Convinced that great stories are made to last, she decided to give it almost 200 years later a new lease of life. She continues the story of D’ORSAY and its original love story by exploring the state of love through to carnal desire, speaking of feelings and intimacy. She is redesigning the olfactory line while respecting the House’s heritage, working with independent noses such as Olivia Giacobetti, Mark Buxton, Karine Chevalier, Bertrand Duchaufour, Fanny Bal and Vincent Ricord.
Her vision is assertive, the D’ORSAY fragrances will be for her and him as was the first one, characterised by a form of duality found in that state of love that often turns us upside down. She continues to promote French craftsmanship by using local artisans, whether they be glassmakers, waxmakers or jewellers. Careful, insolent, sophisticated, contradictory, incipient, electric, impulsive, dreamy, secret, dazzling love? Each fragrance is named after a clue phrase signed with the initials of an undisclosed personality.
OUR FIRST PERFUME WAS BORN FROM A HEARTBEAT
Alfred d’Orsay meets Marguerite Blessington in 1821, he is 20, she is 32 and married for reason. No matter the age difference and the setting, they fall in love, irrevocably. She is a Londoner – but has kept the ardour of her native Ireland-, she is a poet and novelist, she captivates Alfred as much as he seduces her. They love each other beyond convention, throwing up trouble during their travels between Italy, France and England.
Alfred is not only an insatiable aesthete but also a born creator, he draws, sculpts and paints. He is a gifted jack-of-all-trades, which amuses Marguerite to no end. Perfume is for him a natural additional artistic expression. He imagines a perfume, a fragrance of absolution that they can both wear, a fragrance without a label, in a small bottle decorated with a piece of blue ribbon. It is 1830, our perfume house is born.
BODY PERFUMES LIKE STATES OF LOVE
Careful, insolent, sophisticated, contradictory, incipient, electric, impulsive, dreamy, secret, dazzling love?
Each fragrance is named after a clue phrase signed with the initials of an undisclosed personality.
Sometimes it doesn’t take much to change your state of mind. A ray of sunshine, a touch of wit, a drop of perfume, why not? A scent surprises us, and without waiting, takes us somewhere else, where we would like to be. Or even better, where we didn’t even know we could go. Nothing makes a D’ORSAY perfume happier than to provoke some personality disorders. Because it’s a fact, we all have hidden resources deep inside us.D’ORSAY fragrances are characterised by their duality, because that’s how we are.
HOME FRAGRANCES LIKE SECRET RENDEZ-VOUS
A country dawn, a walk in the Harras, an opera box, a fireside, a sensual gathering?
Each one has its own preferred setting.
A home fragrance is meant to smell good. Or it is a source of rich, playful, perhaps even infinite experiences. A creator of secondary states through suggestion alone. Here we are, no longer quite at home, thousands of light years away or a few microns. We just want to be in a different state from the one we were in a few seconds before. Provided the moment is transcendent…
D’ORSAY’s interior fragrances are created in France with the same high standards as its body fragrances, they are worked in «head, heart, base» harmony, and designed as olfactory settings, secret appointments.
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