Francesca Bianchi Sex and the Sea Extrait de Parfum

Fragrance Family:
Floral Amber

Notes:
Mimosa, Pineapple, Coconut, Immortelle, Rose, Iris, Sandalwood, Myrrh, Labdanum, Benzoin, Ambergris, Civet, Vanilla

Concentration:
Extrait de Parfum (25%)

Occasion:
A sultry portrait of the sea - an intoxicating solar breath infused with salinity: sun-burnt, sweaty, salty skin. A knockout signature, and glorious for the daytime.

Francesca’s Inspiration:
“During my childhood and teenage years I used to spend lots of time at the seaside. One of the strongest memories of that time is the smell of my skin. Eventually my parents sold the house at the seaside, and university, work, boyfriends, brought me far from that memory. Five years ago I moved to the Netherlands and I forgot the smell of my sweaty, salty skin. Sometimes back I bumped into a face cream of L’Occitane containing Immortelle. The odour of that plant was actually not so pungent in the cream, nonetheless it was strongly pulling out of my head the childhood memory of my skin. I confess I had totally neglected the essential oil of helichrysum which was sitting on my shelf.  But now I smelled it again, with a new nose.  I worked on a special amber accord, I would say — a  human one. A civet tincture reinforced this intimate atmosphere, while a special ambergris molecule added the mineral-salty touch.”

Made in Italy

Sex and the Sea is a daring perfume, taking familiar tropical, salty, and aqueous themes and transforming them with a bold animalic amber accord, lending sultriness and intensity to this popular style. The result is a fragrance with a potent, impactful, and mesmerising touch - a complex touch all at once viscous, glossy, sunburnt, and unctuous. Beachy, foamy waves are irradiated with the heat of the sun, while crunchy sand begins to roast in all of its exposure. Sex and the Sea fronts a tropical medley of coconut and pineapple, given a salty lick thanks to ambergris and solar warmth from immortelle. Wear Sex and the Sea, and the beach is carried along with you.