Nicolaï Parfumeur Createur Caravansérail Intense photo by Steven
Patricia de Nicolaï is the great-granddaughter of Pierre Guerlain who, with his brother Jacques as chief perfume designer, led their company to success in the first part of the 20th century (she the niece of Jean-Paul Guerlain, the last family member to run the House of Guerlain) but as Madame told me in an interview, “the “family” would not have a woman in the role as a perfumer: “it was not an obvious option for my family to believe that I could work as a perfumer. Remember that I began my career, in the 80’s and in those times, the Guerlain business was managed by my grandmother’s brother who believed that women in the family should not be working…” Their loss is independent perfumery’s gain. With the encouragement of her late husband Jean Louis Michau today Nicolaï Parfumeur Createur, is one of the most renowned independent perfume brands in the world, and has been so since 1989.
Patricia de Nicolaï courtesy of the perfumer
On January 15, 2023, ÇaFleureBon had the privilege of announcing the new Nicolaï Parfumeur Createur Caravansérail Intense. An excerpt of Patricia de Nicolaï”s exclusive quote regarding her creative process:
“I visited the Middle East many times and I’m always surprised by the very warm and welcoming Arabic sense of hospitality. Especially when they offer you coffee! The Arabic coffee is so unique, it’s a wonderful mixture of Arabica beans and spices such as cardamom and Tonka beans. I really appreciate that smell and it was time for me to create a fragrance inspired by these notes. It’s a path I really wanted to go through as I realize that I did not really have a woody gourmand in my collection of fragrances.
When I started to work on the new Nicolaï Parfumeur Createur Caravansérail Intense, the challenge for me was to transform this typical spicy coffee flavor into a perfume. To do so, I built a top note using coffee absolute, cardamom essence and some fruity plum facets. Then I decided to support this first impression by a woody patchouli and sandalwood heart all completed by dry amber base notes like Ambrocenide and Ambroxan. The name Caravansérail came at the end and it was so obvious! During the Middle-Ages a caravanserai was an inn developed throughout the Middle-East where travelers of the Silk and Spices routes used to rest after long and hard journeys. It was a safe place on which they also used to trade and get information of the world. It was a place of hospitality and this is really the characteristic of that fragrance.”
Top: Coffee absolue, plum, raspberry; Middle: Cardamom Essence, Clove Essence, Cinnamon Essence, Patchouli heart essence, Sandalwood essence; Base:Vanilla absolute, tonka absolute, immortelle absolute- Michelyn Camen, Editor in Chief
Video Editor Steven Gavrielatos reviews Caravansérail Intense
Thanks to Nicolaï Parfumeur Createur we have a 100 ml bottle of Nicolaï Parfumeur Createur Caravansérail Intense for a registered ÇaFleureBon reader worldwide with the exception of Latin America and the UK, (if you are not sure if you are registered click here (you must register on our site or your entry will be invalid) and Redolessence subscriber. To be eligible please leave a comment ON THIS SITE with what you enjoyed about BOTH MICHELYN’S INTRODUCTION AND STEVEN’S YOUTUBE REVIEW and where you live. What is your favorite Nicolaï Parfumeur Createur perfume. Draw closes 2/13/23 and winners will be announced within 10 days after only on our site and on Facebook.
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