Niche Perfumery

Metamorphoses of Colours and Moods by Mark Buxton

11/27/08 07:08:05

Prominent perfumer Mark Buxton is famous for his top-notch perfume compositions by the houses of: Givenchy, Paco Rabanne, Versace, Salvador Dali, Chopard, Cartier, Ferre, as well as for his long-term cooperation with niche house of Comme des Garcons. His motto is: ''Simplicity is the ultimate degree of luxury.''

Besides his author work in perfumery, Mark Buxton's interests intertwine by connecting exploration of top quality and beauty. English painting, antique and gastronomy certainly make a part of mosaic of personality and world view of the famous perfumer. New, personal collection he has recently presented, was named Metamorphoses of Colours and Moods by Mark Buxton.

Colours are closely connected with mood. Mark Buxton demonstrated secrets clearly and simply by connecting colours and person's character and mood in his collection of seven fragrances, with the offered colour palette. Choose your colour and you will be offered a range of notes and aromas.

Collection Metamorphoses of Colours and Moods encompasses seven perfumes with the following names:

Wood & Absinth
Black Angel
Hot Leather
English Breakfast
Around Midnight
Sounds & Vision
Nameless.

Let's start from Wood & Absinth, first fragrance in fragrant spectrum, which was created as a contrast of two natural ingredients – wood and absinth (wormwood-artemisia absinthum), in eternal love and hate, searching for a precise balance, which leads to a perfect harmony of the composition. The perfume includes: citruses, orange, clary sage and anis in top notes, with jasmine and rosewood in a heart, while base notes harmonize with vetiver and woody accords.

Black Angel is the ultimate mixture full of elegance. Englishman in New York. It incorporates aromas of citrus, bergamot, orange, mandarin, rosemary, ginger, cardamom and coriander in top, with nutmeg, jasmine, lily of the valley and iris root in a heart, finishing with styrax, Guaiac wood and patchouli in base notes.

Third in a row is pink Hot Leather, a provocative fragrance inspired by night life of Paris and good time in Moulin Rouge. The perfume opens with citruses, bergamot, coriander and mandarin, with iris root and jasmine in a heart, including base notes of patchouli, cedar and vanilla.

English Breakfast is a morning fragrance. 7 AM, location Japan. Englishman is traveling in early morning by speed train Shinkansen to Kyoto. What is he doing at this time? He is opening a sushi-shashimi box and having breakfast. The composition presents bergamot, orange, pepper, ginger, coriander, galbanum and geranium in top notes, with marigold, jasmine, rosewood and gardenia in a heart. Base notes incorporate patchouli, vetiver, labdanum, fir, cedar and benzoin.

Around Midnight teleports us from Japan to a jazz-club in the heart of Paris, city of light. The perfume opens with aromas of pepper, galbanum, chamomile, with a heart full of jasmine and styrax, patchouli, cedar and labdanum in base.

After the city, sixth fragrance of the collection, Sounds & Visions, reflects aromas of cedar forest, with imagination of freedom, nature and dance on a beautiful, sunny day. This perfume opens with bergamot, mandarin, ginger, pepper and cardamom, with vibrations of nutmeg, rose, jasmine and palisander in a heart. Base notes introduce woody harmony of Guaiac wood with patchouli, cedar and sandalwood.

Nameless is a fragrance of serenity. Like having rest on a terrace by lake Come. A view of little boats which float peacefully, coming in and out of a port, inspired the creator on this union of wood and water. Top notes open the composition with fresh accords of mandarin and orange blossom, with spicy tacts of cardamom and aromatic lavender. A heart blooms with cinnamon, coffee, cloves and jasmine, while base notes introduce amber, labdanum, Guaiac wood, patchouli, cedar and benzoin.

The palette of seven new fragrances of the collection shows moments of life, colours of moods, feelings and experienced emotions, which affect us sentimentally. Find the mentioned palette of colours on Mark Buxton's official website and check which fragrance belongs to you… or which fragrance you belong to!