The Sky is full of Fire and Cream

Scent provocateur, botanical purist, and founder of Strange Invisible Perfumes, Alexandra Balahoutis, is pleased to unveil her stirring new fall fragrance, Fire and Cream.

Inspired by an upward look at the sky one early evening, Fire and Cream is a sinuous, elegant composition with many prismatic transitions from rooted notes of vetiver, sandalwood, and Indonesian patchouli to the twinkling essences of hydro-distilled oranges and their blossoms.

This latest Strange Invisible Perfume once again sets a new precedent in perfumery by the unmatchable purity of its ingredients and the use of hydro-distilled, not mechanically pressed, citrus essential oil in its formulation. With a lustrous, uncompromising palette of essences sourced from the world’s most talented distillers, Balahoutis has masterfully captured the sky’s spectacle in her newest aromatic portrait.

Balahoutis originally created Fire and Cream as a custom formulation for herself.

She says: “One early evening in late summer, I looked at the sky and proclaimed silently, ‘The sky is full of fire and cream.’ Being a perfumer with bright red hair and a pale complexion, ‘Fire and Cream’ seemed a perfect title for a custom perfume I would soon design for myself.”

Inevitably, admirers of this sublime fragrance coaxed her into making it available and so Balahoutis releases Fire and Cream this fall.

Fire and Cream has a classic, old world architecture of base, heart and top notes. A path begins in a warm, earthly setting of vetiver, sandalwood, and patchouli. Rising skyward through the delicate light of white lavender and tuberose, this composition quickens toward a blazing glow of top notes. Upon its finish, the perfume’s every nuance smolders in a fiery sky of hydro-distilled oranges and their blossoms.

Hydro-distillation is an ancient method of extracting essential oils that is more gentle than steam distillation. It captures a plant’s more volatile, water-soluble aroma molecules. These molecules provide the brightest and most sparkling top notes that cannot be obtained by the harsh conditions of steam distillation. Balahoutis was determined to feature only the most glittering, luminous orange essential oils in Fire and Cream.

As a result, this composition is a truly groundbreaking, premium perfume by a botanical fragrance house that serves the reality, not the dream, of precious ingredients and luxury craftsmanship.

Like all Strange Invisible Perfumes, Fire and Cream is comprised of organic, wildcrafted or biodynamic essences set in a base of 100% organic, beverage-grade grape alcohol. It is sold as 0.25 fluid ounce pure perfume for $195 and 1.7 fluid ounce eau de parfum for $145.

Source: Strange Invisible Perfumes Press Release