Alighting Under Wing - Plume Impression - Elegance Cuiree - 2019, Dualite Magnifique - 2019 and Royal Bourbon -2023
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One wonders all the voyages one can cram into a lifetime, Physical travel, flights of fancy and fantasy or the simple act of inhaling and taking off to distant places and experiences. Plume Impression is a perfume house that delights in creating season tickets for us all with their collection. Inspired by the imagery of feathers lifted high on winds, surrendering to wherever they may alight, something to give pause for thought here. Plume Impression was created in 2019 and is curated by Sabine and Gabriel. Each perfume taken from that wisp of inspiration, caught on updrafts and alighting upon unknown shores. Where do we go when we loosen our grip and allow ourselves to be lifted high upon the currents of chance and just experience our landing.
Plume Impression perfumes are each created with world class perfumers and it shows, everything inside and out of these distilled voyages is quality, only the best for those who are daring and willing to fly.
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Elegance Cuiree.- Jordi Fernandez. A soft thudding impedes into my sounds of vision, the scent of turf cut with hooves at speed. Power and beauty in a single gesture. Fields open and the horizon extends. A hand in tune with equinine flesh, moving as one in perfection of harmony. There is a tamed wildness evident in Elegance Cuiree that is only just restrained, like the horse barely held back, longing to surge forward and run faster than the wind, leather reins held taut in immaculately gloved hands, a racy bergamot sliced into an icy juniper spirit. At the edge of competition, each rider breathing smoky tensions, here is the foretaste of the contest, a horse soaking leather with its anticipation, the rising pulse of adrenalin surging in both, a unison of prepared flight. Grace endowed in every fibre, every muscle of man and beast.
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A pause in play, the heaving chests rise and fall in a symbiosis of union, in the minute and infinite moments between breaths, an emergent softening, subtle and supremely refined, the touch of craftmanship, immaculate cotton on flushed wrists, leather artistry under touch and against animal flesh, the point of contact emitting its power.
Elegance Cuiree is an epitome of the high art and elegance of a game well played, of gentlemen and gentlewomen rising to the occasion, the perfection of presentation in understated attire. A perfume of noble pursuits and well mannered courtesy scarcely shielding the strength and unbridled power surging underneath in waves. The fine line of protocol and classic style with an illusion of control, something somewhat more riotous verging at its limits, akin to the horse raring to go. The coiled expectation of taut flesh. Adrenaline never worn such refinement, clothed in the finest tailoring and exquisite material, an overall impression of latent potential, power and confidence.
After the excitement and spectacle of the game, Elegance Cuiree drifts beautifully into a sensuality that lingers, teasing at the edges of the aftermatch gathering, admiring glances become a little more fervent and the leather, more tactile, longing to be touched, polished and burnished to a shine and it lingers long into the night in flushed, rich undertones, Amber and Vetiver warming the strident leather into a luxurious undoing, buckles are loosened and white shirts fall open blurring the boundaries between decorum and surrender. A beautifully classic perfume with passion evident in all its unfolding.
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Top Notes:
Bergamot, Juniper Berry
Middle Notes:
Gaiac, Patchouli, Olibanum
Base Notes:
Amber, Leather, Vetyver
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Dualite Magnifique - Jordi Fernandez, Nightfall in the city that breathes her history in every crevice, every lap of the lagoon at her feet, every church bell and in footfalls on cobbled passageways. Time is somehow slowed and distilled into an elixir, within these moments one can fleetingly catch her secrets. For Serinissima never truly reveals all to the consuming eyes, she keeps certain aspects well hidden from those who cannot know.
Red - Camilla Akrans
Will you ever see her, complete and unobscured, I think not, for it is her very nature to be elusive. Dualitie Magnifique is a distillation of a myriad secrets whispered in disappearing alleyways, heard in the soft movement of waters against eternal stones, each touch of the waters releasing another whisper of her for us to capture. Here are all her beauties revealed, in glimpses at the periphery of senses, in slight nuances. Some are released to the winds and the waves, some in age-old stones, some in folds of brocade as the hem caresses the street, some in exuberant celebration of masked revellers, some in the whispered words between lovers, some in the lone dancers on the Piazza at 3am.
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Guttered candles drift in frescoed salons, the scent of past embraces alive in the heated passions of the moment, perfuming the night, enfolded in layers of fabric and time
Dualite Magnifique gathers the whisperings of her magnificence and holds them to be released on skin once more, rich and opulent it entices, ‘come, come, follow me if you can’ fleet of foot and with a flash of intruiging eyes and billowing brocades, she has so much to show you, if you can keep pace otherwise you will be lost in the labyrinithine streets, disorientated and bereft. The slip, momentarily of the mask, a chance enticement of flesh as she hastens away, the wafts of the far-flung destinations succumbed over centuries, envelop her, pulsing in her very arteries.
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Follow her and you will be gifted fragments of her intimate essence, see with her eyes, absorb the city into your veins and be assimilated in her embrace, never wholly, never completely revealed, for that is her ultimate charm and what ignites the desire in us to return again and again, like a besotted lover who is surrendered to her attractions. This perfume is the your longing to know her, to return to perceive briefly another part of her, another thread to follow, it is the beautiful, insatiable song of the longing for secrets. Masked or unmasked, the beauty of illusion, the stranger known.
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Top Notes:
Davana, Saffron
Middle Notes:
Rose, Akigalawood, Cypriol
Base Notes:
Oudh, Suede Leather, Dry Amber
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Royal Bourbon - Amandine Galliano, an infusion of comfort, the leather of time worn, chestnut brown chairs, their arms stroked by numerous hands, the pages of a glorious antique book, pages illuminated by the flames of the hearth fire. A perfume for all the coming wintry days, nothing surer in the complacent contentment of the zenith of summer than the days stretching towards the silence of winter. Here in the snug, in the nook of homes where warmth and contentment prevail, here is Royal Bourbons niche, the quiet moments immersed in that good book, the scent of aged pages mingling with fireside embers and that glass of fine rum finshed with dried orange and spices, all to be imbibed at wintry pace, slowly.
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Mellow hints of spiced fruits, that scent of the harvest long gathered that lingers in tracings preserved for the darker days. Each sip, each morsel of time captured, a contentment. infused with a warmth that lingers like a fire embered, emitting a reassurance, the intimacy of loved ones close at hand.
A janus perfume that looks in both directions from the wintry turning of the year, at home snuggled in cosy contentment as the storm rages outside and…..
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Royal Bourbon also emits its gourmand voyage in the murmuring promise of warmth and summer places, exotic calls of Caribbean discoveries, the lure of gently swaying nights and azure days, spiced with adventures carefree and brightly joyful. Rich and voluptous it speaks of freedom and intimacy, naked under sun and cossetted in furs at a fires edge all in one, fascinating, deeply satisfying and delicious it traverses seasons in its union with skin, a travelling shapeshifter.
In one draft of Royal Bourbon one can simultaneously reside in protected warmth by the fireside and lay upon perfectly white sands in the arms of a summer embrace, a glass of rum in your hand on each occasion, vibrant and soothing all in one sip.
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Top Notes:
Liquorice, Cinnamon, Ginger, Pepper
Middle Notes:
Rum, Tobacco, Leather, Caramel
Base Notes:
Vanilla, Benzoin, Amber, Cedarwood
My thanks to Sabine and Gabriel for samples received and my bottle of Elegance Cuiree.
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