Un Bel Amour d'ÉtéSolar Floral Eau de Parfum

Un Bel Amour d'Été by Parfum d'Empire is a sunny floral vanilla eau de parfum, unisex, created by Marc-Antoine Corticchiato. The house summarizes it in three repeated words — always love, always summer, always flowers.

A perfumer's house, and a return to Corsica

Parfum d'Empire is a French house founded and composed by a single man, Marc-Antoine Corticchiato: he is both its founder and nose, and signs the entire catalog. Its formula can be summed up in one sentence — perfume is a quest, perfume is an exploration — and the house claims a return to the primary meaning of perfume, that of seduction and spirituality. The catalog is divided in two: the Signature Collection and the l'Héritage Corse Collection, which brings the house back to the perfumer's island of origin.

An opening of magnolia and ambrette

The magnolia, which the house calls radiant, opens on a clear, lemony floral. Ambrette — the seed of the musk mallow, a natural plant-based musk — accompanies it with a milky sweetness. The opening is luminous, very far from heavy white flowers.

A heart of gardenia, ylang-ylang and champaca

The gardenia is the center of the perfume, and the house describes it exactly: it blends skin and petal. The ylang-ylang brings its creamy banana, the champaca its powdery exoticism. Three white flowers, but kept far from the heaviness of the genre.

A base of Madagascar vanilla, Indian sandalwood and musks

The Madagascar vanilla and the Indian sandalwood establish the warmth, both named for their origin — they are natural materials, not accords. The musky notes close on a skin effect. The sillage remains soft and enveloping.

The house's approach

The house describes this perfume by the flesh rather than by the bouquet: corollas soft as skin, which exhale a carnal scent. This is what explains the construction — a white floral built on warm naturals and a plant-based musk, without the synthetic solar accord that usually weighs down this register. It speaks of a season of passion on the beach, and the perfume keeps this promise by remaining wearable in the heat.

For whom, for what occasions?

For anyone who wants a white floral that can be worn in summer without suffocating. It is a spring and summer perfume, from morning to night, with good longevity and an enveloping sillage without excess. A Bel Amour d'Été Parfum d'Empire will appeal to those who find white flowers too heavy. Available in 50 and 100 ml.