Kismet: Fine Fragrance Eau de Parfum
KISMET OLFACTIVE Fine Fragrance Eau de Parfum
Fine fragrance is an olfactive word most commonly known as “perfume.” Such fragrances do not magically appear in a beautiful bottle—there is a trained perfumer who has refined that blend over countless variations (trials) likely over the course of months, if not years. Fine fragrance, as we know it today, consists of both natural raw materials and aroma molecules. It is not limited to this combination, but for the sake of making the distinction, that is the perfume industry’s general definition to date. Under the fine fragrance umbrella there are two major competing categories: “commercial” and “niche.”
Nymphéas — exactly like Monte’s Lilies - beautiful, delicate, fresh floral
Top: Pond water
Heart: Maté, Lily of the Valley, Lotus
Base: Vetiver, Oakmoss
Nymphéas (Water Lilies) is a series of roughly 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet, depicting the artist’s renowned garden ponds at his home in Giverny. Painted over the last thirty years of Monet’s life—as his vision progressively blurred due to cataracts—‘Water Lilies’ is an extended study on the interplay of light, color, and reflection on water, testifying to nature’s constant transformation and ephemerality.
Inspired by Monet’s great cycle, Nymphéas (Water Lilies) is a floral fragrance exploring ambiguity, impermanence, and blurred perception. Solar water lily notes hover over lily of the valley, jasmine, and aquatic pond water which, in turn, mingle with earthy scents of vetiver, oak moss, and maté. Embracing olfaction’s ever-shifting subtleties, Nymphéas (Water Lilies) evokes the uncanny experience of familiarity with the unfamiliar—it’s like being in love.
“These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession for me. It is beyond my strength as an old man, and yet I want to render what I feel.”
—Claude Monet
Wedding in Oaxaca — warm yummy floral
Top: Pink Pepper, Ginger, Coconut Milk
Heart: Geranium, Gardenia, Violet Leaves
Base: Osmanthus, Musk, Sandalwood
Wedding in Oaxaca is the story of two lovers bound together in a mystical Mexican city, surrounded by a parade of local music, dance, and friends in wild celebration. A playful fragrance, Wedding in Oaxaca fuses smooth lactonic notes of coconut milk and tuberose with fresh floral violet leaves and woody undertones of vetiver, musk, and sandalwood. May this scent always remind you of a memorable moment in time.
“. . . Here they come with a big brass band up front
With tubas and trumpets and drums
At the head or the forming columns of men and women
Pouring in from the side streets
Into the Avenida de la Independencia in the center of Oaxaca...”
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "High Noon, Oaxaca”