Amaranthine: the daring new fragrance from Penhaligon’s

In a darkened room a woman lies amid a sea of silk sheets. Candle flames cast a flickering web of shadows across the walls; shimmering threads of light in the darkness. She smiles, takes a bottle of perfume and touches the stopper to her collar bones and décolleté, then runs it up the back of her legs. The air trembles with the scent of tropical flowers and spices, anticipation and desire. Something catches the light; the soft beat of wings, fluttering in the night air. Time spins and she becomes sleepy, everything heavy and drowsy with dream.

As Penhaligon’s evolves as a fragrance house, there is a continual quest for innovation and individuality in each new fragrance release. For 2009, something unusual was required; a fragrance for the contemporary woman, shocking and compulsively sensual.

Penhaligon’s turned to master perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour and Amaranthine is the startling result: a complex choreography of perfumed desire. A corrupted floral oriental for those private moments when everything is anticipation.

Amaranthine opens with a dramatic flourish of spices and tropical green. This unsettling lick of drama is beautifully ambushed by an unctuous accord of jasmine and ylang-ylang, a heady bloom renowned for its aphrodisiac properties, and clove swathed in spices, tea, musk and the rounded beauty of tonka bean absolute.

Amaranthine will be available as Eau de Parfum (50ml and 100ml) and as a limited edition Parfum (30ml) housed in a hand-crafted crystal and silver bottle.

Jewellery designer Alex Monroe has created a silver butterfly charm bracelet which sits around the neck of the limited edition bottle as well as a collection of jewellery pieces featuring butterflies and dragonflies which will be on sale at Penhaligon’s boutiques for a limited period.

                     Composition:

Top: green tea, white freesia, banana tree leaf, coriander seed oil, cardamom absolute

Middle: rose, carnation, clove oil, orange blossom, ylang ylang oil, Egyptian jasmine absolute

Base: musk, vanilla, sandalwood, condensed milk, tonka bean absolute

Amaranthine will be on sale in all Penhaligon’s stores and online from Monday 12th October 2009.

Amaranthine 50ml Eau de Parfum $95
Amaranthine 100ml Eau de Parfum $125
Amaranthine Limited Edition Parfum in Crystal Bottle $550.

Source: Penhaligon’s press release