Reflet sur l'OkavangoWoody Floral Eau de Parfum

Reflet sur l'Okavango by Ella K is a niche floral, woody and powdery eau de parfum, unisex, created by Sonia Constant. It is born from the Okavango Delta in Botswana, whose waterways flood the desert once a year.

An imaginary heroine, a house founded by a female perfumer

Ella K was born in Paris in 2017, created by perfumer Sonia Constant with her husband, himself an expert in raw material sourcing. Very few perfume houses are created by female perfumers: Ella K is an exception. "Ella K" is an imaginary heroine, inspired by three explorers from another century: Ella Maillart — from whom Sonia Constant says she borrowed her first name —, Karen Blixen and Alexandra David-Néel. Each perfume is the olfactory memory of a moment lived somewhere in the world, and rests on an iconic ingredient, a symbol of the destination, surrounded by rare naturals and high-quality synthetic molecules. Trained at the ISIPCA and then at Givaudan, where she still works, Sonia Constant signed Guerlain L'Abeille, Montblanc Emblem, Balmain Extatic and Burberry Sport. 100 ml bottle.

An opening of marula liqueur and papyrus

The marula liqueur opens fruity and slightly alcoholic — it is the fruit that elephants adore. The papyrus brings a dry reed-like greenness.

A heart of acacia flower, African caprifoli, and iris

The acacia flower unfolds, honeyed and sweet, the African caprifoli flower brings a green and peppery facet. The iris establishes its cold powder.

A base of tonka bean, sycamore, and mopane

The tonka bean rounds out, the sycamore brings a light wood and the mopane — a bush tree with dense and rough wood — a mineral dryness.

The house's signature

Five African materials that perfumery almost never uses. The marula liqueur, the African caprifoli flower, the papyrus, the sycamore and especially the mopane, a bush tree whose wood is dense and rough. This is not a conventional "African perfume" — no amber, no expected spices: these are the real plants of the banks of the Okavango. This is exactly the principle of the house: an iconic ingredient that summarizes a place, and the place here provides five.

For whom, for what occasions?

Floral, woody and powdery, this eau de parfum is for those who are looking for an off-the-beaten-path woody floral. It gives its best in spring and autumn, day and night, worn equally well by women as by men.

With Reflet sur l'Okavango Ella K, Sonia Constant uses the real plants of the delta rather than an imagined Africa.