Stéphanie de Saint-Aignan released her first collection of perfumes comprising seven fragrances in October 2007. She plans in the future to introduce new fragrances each year. She was trained at ISIPCA (founded in 1970 by Jean-Jacques Guerlain) in Versailles and now works independently, owning her own laboratory.Her line currently includes Voleur de Ciels (French for ‘The Skies Thief’), Tobacco Mucho (Spanish for ‘Much Tobacco’) , Amande Honorable (lit. ‘Honorable Almond’, a pun on the expression "faire amende honorable", i.e. ‘to make amends’), Le Pot aux Roses (lit. ‘The Potted Roses’; refers to an expression meaning that one has uncovered a scheme), Berbériades (a reference to a travel to the region of the Berbers), Un Thé au Sahara (‘A Tea in Sahara’), and Embruns d'Ambre (‘Amber Sprays’).
The next collection will include Berbériades Extrême, Blanc d’Hiver, L’Eau Nirique and Li Altarelli, not yet available but soon to be.
Inspired by Paul Bowles’ novel “The Sheltering Sky”, Un Thé au Sahara, is a tribute to love in Sahara desert. How strange that sand is so infinitely infinitesimal…pilling up in the vastness of dunes, beyond visible. Men gather for tea, in the silent desert, under the astral disproportion of time. The time of a tea in a Bedouin tent. Burning sweet bitterness that goes deep into a thirsty soul. The dry smell of mint and sugar dances before sunsets. There probably is in the perfume of sand and tea, a genuine eucharistic truth that cloaks men under God’s light.
Is desert the mirror of our infinity ?
The understated, elegant exoticism of the blend centered around a sumptuous green tea note will delight lovers of tea scents. The piquant freshness of the opening notes of tea and mint smoothly transforms into the darker luxuriousness of woods, patchouli, sage and smoky incense and perhaps leather that lie in the heart of Un Thé au Sahara. The spicy amber accord in the base is that desert sky that “hides the night behind it”…The soulful, soft and deep yet dark composition would move anyone to “reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose”. Un Thé au Sahara is a fragrance tableau vivant, a traveling caravan of orientalism and fans of Serge Lutens’ oriental exquisites will adore this one because it has a more contemporary feel than Lutens’ heavy-lidded creations.
The understated, elegant exoticism of the blend centered around a sumptuous green tea note will delight lovers of tea scents. The piquant freshness of the opening notes of tea and mint smoothly transforms into the darker luxuriousness of woods, patchouli, sage and smoky incense and perhaps leather that lie in the heart of Un Thé au Sahara. The spicy amber accord in the base is that desert sky that “hides the night behind it”…The soulful, soft and deep yet dark composition would move anyone to “reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose”. Un Thé au Sahara is a fragrance tableau vivant, a traveling caravan of orientalism and fans of Serge Lutens’ oriental exquisites will adore this one because it has a more contemporary feel than Lutens’ heavy-lidded creations.
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