L’OMBRE D’HIER

$ 160.00

30ML.

EXTRAIT DE PARFUM

A Fragrance of Shadows, Memory, and Desire

Inspired by the film L’année Dernière à Marienbad  (Last Year in Marienbad)

In the endless halls of Marienbad, time curls in upon itself. Corridors stretch with impossible symmetry, chandeliers glint on polished marble, and every shadow seems to whisper of encounters long past. A man approaches a woman, his words a delicate accusation: “We met here last year.” She smiles faintly, as if remembering and forgetting at the same time. Is it truth, or a memory reconstructed from desire? In this world, certainty is a fleeting notion, and memory is a labyrinth from which one may never escape.

L’ombre d’hier (The Shadow of Yesterday)  is the olfactory echo of this dreamlike uncertainty. At first, leather and civet ground you in the tangible present, the sensual weight of a body remembered, yet just beyond reach. Aldehydes shimmer like reflected light on marble floors, fleeting, fleeting—always fading into shadow. Musk wraps you in the quiet intimacy of the night, a soft cloak that holds the tension of what is said and unsaid. Frankincense rises like incense from unseen altars, curling and spiralling, while basil flickers like a green flame among the shadows.

Then come the floral whispers: orris concrete, powdery and pale, evokes the fragile geometry of memory itself; geranium and lavender mingle with the subtle sophistication of rooms lined with mirrors, reflecting moments that may have happened, or may only exist in imagination. Jasmine absolute drifts like a scent of longing from a forgotten garden, mingling with the fleeting brightness of bergamot—bright sparks against the dusky backdrop of time suspended.

Spices enter gently, as if speaking in half-remembered conversations: coriander, clove, cumin seed, and carnation awaken a tactile, intimate tension, recalling gestures of closeness and the thrill of proximity that is never fully realised. Vetiver, patchouli, and Champaca leave earthy, grounding trails behind you, the smell of memory rooted in reality, of footsteps that vanish before they are fully traced.

This is a fragrance of ambivalence and seduction. It is not linear; it unfolds like the story of a night in Marienbad, where each step, each gesture, is mirrored, doubled, questioned. To wear L’ombre d’hier is to drift through corridors where time has lost its hold, to feel the magnetic pull of a past that is uncertain, yet irresistible. It is for those who are drawn to the elegance of ambiguity, who understand that longing is its own reward, and that desire often resides in the space between the known and the imagined.

L’ombre d’hier evokes the subtle, haunting presence of memories that linger, moments that are never fully forgotten, and the delicate line between what once was and what is imagined. It speaks to the poetry of the past, the enigmatic pull of nostalgia, and the tension between presence and absence—all central themes of the inspiration behind this fragrance,  L’année Dernière à Marienbad  (Last Year in Marienbad)

A mysterious, elegant, melancholic, and deeply introspective, perfectly reflecting the surreal, dreamlike quality of both the film and the scent itself.

Notes

Leather

Aldehyde

Musk

Civet

Frankincense 

Basil

Orris Concrete

Coriander 

Clove

Geranium 

Lavender

Bergamot 

Jasmine Absolute

Vetiver

Carnation 

Cumin Seed

Champaca

Patchouli 

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