Francesca Bianchi Tyger Tyger Extrait de Parfum

Fragrance Family:
Floral Amber

Notes:
Narcotic Flowers, Honey, Peach Jam, Tuberose Absolute, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Oakmoss, Oud, Leather, Heliotropin

Concentration:
Extrait de Parfum (25%)

Occasion:
For the love of white flowers drowning in a sophisticated sweetness. A grand perfume with an amazing sillage - day or night.

Francesca’s Inspiration:
The title is the incipit of a masterpiece of poetry, The Tyger by William Blake. 

“Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”

In this composition I have been searching for the perfect balance between two opposite elements, and the expression of their clashing contraposition. I had in mind a post-apocalyptic condition, where traces of a highly sophisticated and refined civilisation survived in the dark and fearful condition of a collapsed and destructured world. Blake’s Tyger embodies both qualities I wanted to depict: sublime and irresistibly attractive from one side and terrible and scary from the other one. 

The ‘fearful symmetry’ – a character attributed to the tiger by W Blake – aptly represents this opposition of beautiful perfection and terror. The perfume is built around an accord of narcotic white flowers with sweet-fruity facets, which includes also an absolute of Tuberose – like a prima donna, the protagonist of a dramatic piece, she’s the finest example of a refined civilization of a bygone world; in opposition to that, the base notes present different kind of woods, with some burnt and leathery qualities, referring to a post-apocalyptic scenario of destruction, mystery and darkness. The result of these parts – which wouldn’t work individually – is a clashing, sparkling fragrance which gives me an exciting emotion of highly dramatic sophistication – the kind of contrasted sentiment that anything attractive arouses in me.”

Made in Italy

Addictive from the opening, a vortex of potent and contrasting notes mark the scent immediately. The boom of narcotic tuberose flower - a note that demands your attention and arrests it - glistens with honey and peach jam. The scent is generous and textured, perfectly sweet and addictive as it rings in an infinite perfumed space. There is no singular impression or sense of Tyger Tyger, but a manifold of fruit, flower, spice, wood, and honey that seems to smudge together - meaning that it is difficult to single out anything in particular, but take it as one whole complexity. Complex and complicated, a huge melange of ambrosial fruits turned to jam, of distinctive scintillating colours – like the concentrated essence of summertime.