Carnal Flower is the Eau de Parfum that Dominique Ropion composed for Frédéric Malle in 2005, around a highly concentrated natural tuberose absolute. The house sees in it a flower with a thousand faces, fresh and green at the opening, more animalic as it blooms, amid camphor, dark spices, white musks and milky notes.
Bergamot, melon and eucalyptus form the top notes, tuberose, ylang-ylang and jasmine the heart, orange blossom, coconut and musk the base. The house selects three key notes, melon, tuberose and musk.
Tuberose
According to the house, tuberose opens on an impression of innocence, the green freshness of a bouquet, carried by watery fruits such as melon. It takes a more animalic turn, underlined by camphor and the darkness of spices, and white musks with milky notes soften it.
The notes of 2005
Bois de Jasmin listed in 2005 bergamot, melon, camphor, tuberose, ylang-ylang, jasmine, orange blossom, coconut and white musk. Now Smell This, in 2006, read eucalyptus in place of camphor, and an orange blossom absolute.
What the label declares
Benzyl salicylate opens the list of declared allergens; with benzyl benzoate and benzyl alcohol, it is among the constituents of ylang-ylang and tuberose. Anise alcohol evokes an anisic floral note, eugenol and isoeugenol a spicy clove facet.
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