TYGER TYGER - FRANCESCA BIANCHI

Extrait de parfum

Accords: Chypre, fruity, woody
Mood: Dramatic, narcotic, hypnotic

In a post-apocalyptic world, a survivor of a sophisticated and refined civilization wears a glittering, custom-made dress and walks in a dark and smoky place. The contrast between beauty and terror is expressed by W Blake's The Tyger: the animal is incredibly charming and seductive, but also dark, terrible and dramatic. The fragrance is the result of this striking and sublime combination, creating a unique and captivating atmosphere.

Notes:Narcotic flowers, honey, peach jam, patchouli, sandalwood, oak moss, oud, leather, heliotropine.

This is a perfume extract, to be used sparingly because the concentration is 25%. It has a great longevity (12 hours on average).

The development of Tyger Tyger

The title is the incipit of a masterpiece of poetry, The Tyger by William Blake.

“Tyger Tyger, burning with a thousand fires,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame your fearful symmetry? »

In this composition, I sought the perfect balance between two opposing elements and the expression of their conflicting contraposition.
I had in mind a post-apocalyptic state, where the traces of a highly sophisticated and refined civilization have survived in the dark and frightening state of a collapsed and unstructured world.
Blake's tyrant embodies the two qualities I wanted to depict: sublime and irresistibly attractive on the one hand, terrible and frightening on the other.

The "frightening symmetry" - a characteristic attributed to the tiger by W. Blake - represents well this opposition between perfection and terror.

The perfume is structured around an accord of narcotic white flowers with sweet-fruity facets, which also includes a tuberose absolute - like a prima donna, the protagonist of a dramatic play, she is the finest example of a refined civilization of a bygone world; In contrast, the base notes feature different types of wood, with burnt and leathery qualities, referencing a post-apocalyptic scenario of destruction, mystery and darkness.

The result of these parts - which would not work individually - is a bright and conflicting fragrance that gives me an exciting emotion of highly dramatic sophistication - the kind of contrasting feeling that anything attractive awakens in me.