Floristry, memory and perfume from a Sydney institution.
Saskia Havekes' floral world translated into fine fragrance.
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The delightful paradox of this native Australian is how much an unpretentious flower has a fragrance so valued and memorably vivid. Pollinated by just one type of tiny, day-flying moth, itself dependent for survival on the flower makes it one of the world’s rarest botanical miracles. This is Bertrand Duchaufour’s second composition for Grandiflora....
Magnolia grandiflora is, for many, the glory of the genus: tall trees mantled with startling blooms, shrouded in the fragrance of elusive beauty. Although the flowers fade so quickly, to have and to hold their perfume is a gift. The abstract wish to translate a rare flower into an original parfum initiated a journey through seasons and into remote gardens....
With unique insight, Bertrand Duchaufour has cast a noose of light around the fragrance of QUEEN OF THE NIGHT. The flower, which famously blooms for one night each year and fades at dawn, is one of nature’s most beautiful and fleeting scents. Yet here it is: a captivating mix of memory and desire - of love itself, without regret....
The story of this fragrance begins millions of years ago. Magnolias are so ancient their pollination required beetles; bees, like humans, did not exist at the dawn of the flower’s existence. Drawn to this ancient enigma, the Magnolia grandiflora tree of Michel Roudnitska ’s childhood summers planted a seed....
From first impact to long-lingering afterglow, this fragrance is the interpretive essence of the Grandiflora store itself. It reflects how it has been for Saskia Havekes, working her 25 years of floral magic surrounded by both the enduring and ever-shifting redolence of nature’s most remarkable perfumes....
This beautifully orchestrated fragrance joins Grandiflora’s suite of florals and marks an encore for Michel Roudnitska , creator of MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA MICHEL. His artistry once again achieves, with great subtlety, a spiritual integrity that captures the glory and intensity of this almost devout white flower....
