
Since a year ago there were rumors on the web about
Bertrand Duchaufour working on a fragrance based on orange blossom and incense, two notes that seldom go well with my nose. Unfortunately I can't help it: orange blossom up my nostrils always rings a bell about detergent. So what makes most of the people dream about spring on the mediterranean coasts, to me coming from the Po Valley sounds like a coarse tinkling of dishes and it's relentlessly connected to soap bars and laundry. Another trouble is incense but the genius of Duchaufour already succeded in making me fond of it in scents like
Dzongkha and
Neela Vermeire's
Trayee, where his mastery turned it into something light years away from the aftermath of High Mass. Just for this reason, despite the soap&thurible dread brood over it, I was really curious about how Bertrand could have developed this idea.