A fragrance like a newsletter, from where else but India? As the day comes to a close, the sun slowly disappears and the scents of the evening come out to play. Study #23 is a nocturnal fragrance of combined scents. Flower petals, incense fumes, the warmth of wood and earth (almost reminiscent of a mystical church). Two young foreigners sit in India in a lotus flower, long hair flowing, garlands of patchouli leaves and yellow flowers – bohemian and alive with curiosity. Incense swirls through the air, the sound of the waves and the lounge bars of the nearby beach gently fill the air. Despite this the quiet mood is grounded, peaceful and completely undisturbed.
NOTES
Top: Mystical Incense, Garland
Middle: Patchouli Leaf, Yellow Flowers, Myrrh
Base: Sandalwood, Smoked Cedar
PERFUMER
Vincent Ricord
HOW IT WEARS
Study No. 23/Newsletter is an Eau de Parfum that will most certainly give the wearer 8 hours worth of longevity on the skin, if not more. The rich spices, smoke and woods envelope you invitingly the entirety of its wear. Opening with a smoky intensity, Study No.23/Newsletter softens into a lustrous resinous woody scent.
LORE LOVES
We love the way this fragrance immediately whisks you away to an exotic spice market. Or perhaps, as it’s other name would suggest, a room above it. Through an open window streams warm sunlight, the scent of rich spices and sounds from the market below, mingling powerfully with mystical incense, while the well travelled author weaves tales into a newsletter of all the local goings on. Robust and powerful, vibrant and vivacious. Not a fragrance for the faint of heart.
ABOUT THE BRAND
Miller met Bertaux in Paris, 1985.
Both frequent travellers and natural-born creatives, Francis Miller and Patrick Bertaux became partners in life and business, setting down their suitcases in Paris’s Marais fashion district. They opened a boutique; showcasing their clothing, creations, and treasures brought back from their travels.
Their wanderlust next led them into the world of fragrance, and they began to create scents inspired by their lives and travels. An armful of flowers placed on the ground at a French market… a rose in the ear of a man from the Far East… the incense of a Mexican church… moments, stories, and images like these were transformed by Miller and Bertaux into fragrances wearable by anyone, anywhere.
Thirty years since they first met, Miller and Bertaux have now devoted themselves to the world of fragrance, describing their creations as “perfumes for body and soul, dedicated to those who choose the balance of being and appearing.”
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