About the Fragrance
“…A lazy isle to which nature has
given singular trees, savory fruits, men with bodies vigorous and
slender, and women in whose eyes shines a startling candor.”
The poet Charles Baudelaire, famously a lover of perfume and the
exoticism of faraway lands, was by turns cerebral, sensual, perverse,
and sentimental. Byredo's homage to the French dandy reflects this
mercurial nature with its multiple olfactory dimensions.
A gentle sweetness lies at the heart of Baudelaire, with
hyacinth warmed by amber and a touch of fruit. This sentimental center
gives way to the aromatics of caraway, patchouli, and juniper berries,
with their green whiff of the brisk outdoors. Baudelaire's base truly
provides a counterpoint to its initial warmth, the way that his poetry
often launches into philosophy: sensuality gives way to aridity, with a
dry, incense-y base of leather, patchouli and papyrus.
Earthy yet worldly, warm yet sophisticated, Baudelaire is as elegant as a dandy's walking stick.
Juniper berry, Black pepper, Caraway, Incense, Hyacinth, Leather, Papyrus, Patchouli, Black amber