House  Eris Parfums
Released  2016
Perfumer  Antoine Lie
Fragrance Family  Leather
Notes  bergamot, cardamom, birch tar, tuberose, suede accord, amber, oakmoss, vanilla, cinnamon, musk, patchouli, tonka bean

Description  The result of a collaboration between Barbara Herman (the prolific fragrance blogger behind Yesterday's Perfume and author of Scent & Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume) and Antoine Lie (the avant-garde perfumer well-known for his work with Etat Libre d'Orange), Eris Parfums, named for the Greek goddess of troublemaking and disruption, is a collection of fragrances inspired by the bold eroticism of vintage perfumes. What first struck us about Night Flower was its resemblance to a classic resinous fragrance: Shalimar*. It incorporates the animalic intensity, smokiness, and chiaroscuro of Shalimar's underlying structure and re-appropriates it for a modern-day masterpiece. Antoine Lie remarks that "Night Flower is a leathery, animalic floral. Spellbinding, sexual and addictive." We couldn't agree more.

* Shalimar was released by Guerlain in 1925. The comparison we make here is to the fragrance as it was prior to recent reformulations that have rendered it markedly less leathery and smoky.

50 ml eau de parfum spray
$165.00

1 ml eau de parfum sample
$5.00