An elegant, yet intense, fruity-floral ambery fragrance with fresh, green nuances, Luxe Calme Volupte is a luxurious, opulent scent expressing the longing for a place of sensuous calmness, a suspension from daily worries, a break from human angst. In the historical moment of the global pandemic, perfumer Francesca Bianchi felt the need to offer not a challenging, divisive creation, but something which could bring comfort to the spirit, an invitation to connect to oneself and temporarily forget about one's daily concerns.

“Luxe Calme Volupté” is a recurring verse in Baudelaire’s beautiful poem Invitation au Voyage:

There all is order and beauty,
Luxury, peace, and pleasure.

In this poem, Baudelaire invites his lover to join him in an exotic place where they can live in peace and calm, yet still experience his decadent aesthetic.

Luxe Calme Volupté is also the name of a major painting by Henri Matisse, conveying the same ideas that have inspired Bianchi's perfumes (i.e. the contraposition of calm and peaceful character from one side, sensuous and decadent elements on the other.)

NOTES: Bitter orange, green tangerine, galbanum, hyacinth, tropical fruits, ylang ylang, iris, benzoin, sandalwood, vetiver, opoponax