Oriental VeloursOriental Woody Eau de Parfum

Oriental Velours by Les Indémodables is an oriental, woody, and vanilla eau de parfum, unisex, created by Florence Fouillet Dubois. An alpine conifer in an oriental fragrance.

A house that makes its own materials

Les Indémodables was born in 2016 from the meeting of Valérie and Rémi Pulvérail. She was a beauty retailer and wanted to offer her customers an olfactory wardrobe; he spent twenty years sourcing ingredients at Givaudan before founding his own laboratory, L'Atelier Français des Matières. That is where it all happens: the house does not order its raw materials, it extracts them itself. Some of its extracts are exclusive and cannot be found anywhere else—therefore impossible to copy. Antoine Lie is the creative director, alongside Florence Fouillet Dubois. And it is rare: each bottle indicates the percentage of expensive natural ingredients contained in the formula. The eaux de parfum are dosed at 20%, the Extraits Absolus at 40%.

An opening of Indian jasmine and spruce

Indian jasmine opens with its fleshy and indolic flower. Spruce arrives with it: it is a mountain conifer, resinous and cold, that smells of the forest rather than the boudoir.

A heart of myrrh and Haitian vetiver

Myrrh brings its bitter, almost medicinal resin, and Haitian vetiver—smokier than that of Java—the dry root. The heart is dark and dry.

A vanilla base

Vanilla closes the composition, alone. After the resin and the root, it arrives like a warmth—and it is what gives the perfume the velvet of its name.

The house's signature

An alpine conifer in an oriental fragrance: the two registers have nothing to do with each other. The oriental calls for warm resins, spices, balms; spruce belongs to the vocabulary of the northern forests, cold and green. Placing it at the opening gives the composition an icy start that makes the final vanilla much more striking.

For whom, for what occasions?

Oriental, woody, and vanilla, this eau de parfum is for those who love vanilla orientals and are looking for a warm fragrance that starts cold. From autumn to winter, for evening wear. It is the most contrasting in the catalog.

With Oriental Velours Les Indémodables, a northern forest opens an oriental fragrance.