TYGER TYGER - FRANCESCA BIANCHI

Perfume extract

Agreements: Cyprus, fruit, wooded
How 's your mood ? Dramatic, narcotic and hypnotic

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

Notes:  Narcotic flowers, honey, peach jam, patchouli, sandalwood, oak moss, oud, leather, heliotropin. You know what I mean?

It is an extract of perfume, to be used sparingly because the concentration is 25%. 

The development of Tyger Tyger

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

<unk> Tyger Tyger, burning with fire,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame your creepy symmetry ?

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

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

The scent revolves around a narcotic white flower chord with sweet-fruity facets, which also includes an absolute of tuberous - like a prima donna, the protagonist of a dramatic play, she is the finest example of a refined civilization of a past world; in contrast, the background notes present different types of wood, with burnt and leather qualities, referring to a post-apocalyptic scenario of destruction, mystery and darkness.

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