Angélique Noire

Angélique Noire is a perfume from the L'Art et la Matière range sold by the House of Guerlain

The seeds and roots of Angelica are raw materials that give lively, fresh and green notes, almost bitter.

For me, angelica root takes me back to my childhood. I never really liked the Sunday cream cakes that my mother always bought at every family party. But what I loved were those green sticks that ran across the cakes and looked like big grasshoppers. The sticks were young green angelica stems, with a strong taste, coated in sugar. Rhubarb is in the same style.

The desire behind the creation of this vanilla fragrance was to dress vanilla in a new way, to find an unusual companion, to find its opposite, to create a contrast. It was a note by Daniella Andrier, Givaudan's perfumer, that caught my attention. We had worked on this perfume together for another project, which was not followed up. But I kept it in mind and when the project of L'Art et la Matière was decided, I took up the work with Daniella.

It is a fragrance that combines a very fresh, almost raw, green opening, supported by pink berries and a pear note. The heart notes are jasmine Sambac and caraway, followed by vanilla, angelica root and cedar. It is the unsettling meeting of a new plant note with a bewitching vanilla.

Angelica archangelica

Apiaceae

Angelica, native to Europe and Siberia, was once used to ward off spells. It likes humid and marshy regions. It is an umbelliferous plant that flowers from June to August. The seeds are harvested in mid-July and the roots in winter. Angelica is also used in vermouth, gin, creams and jams. Angelica essence has a very present, spicy, almost musky, pungent and bitter smell. It contains about 200 constituents (including alpha-pinene).

Sylvaine Delacourte perfumes

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