Soleil de Provence belongs to Les Paysages, the collection L’Artisan Parfumeur devotes to the regions of France. In it Daphné Bugey signs a tribute to the mimosa of the road that links Bormes-les-Mimosas to Grasse. Three declared materials, benzoin, lemon and mimosa, for a powdery floral that the house presents as a winter walk in Provence.
Three declared materials, and a tiering that the house draws itself.
What the house declares
Benzoin, lemon, mimosa. The house names all three in its glossary, with their species: styrax for benzoin, Citrus limon for lemon, Acacia dealbata for mimosa.
In French, it sets the order of the reading itself. The yellow tones of lemon and bergamot open, the solar ylang-ylang flower holds the middle, the warmth of the balmy benzoin and vanilla notes closes the trail.
What the market serves
The market serves an identical tiering: lemon and bergamot on top, mimosa and ylang-ylang in the middle, benzoin and vanilla at the base. Bergamot and vanilla fall outside the three key materials, although the house names them in its text.
The house describes a green, floral and powdery accord, with honeyed and woody facets. Nothing else is published: neither proportion nor supporting material.
What the label declares
Eighteen entries. Denatured alcohol, fragrance, water, an ultraviolet filter, and fourteen regulated allergens: limonene, benzyl salicylate, linalool, hydroxycitronellal, hexyl cinnamal, amyl cinnamal, citral, geraniol, cinnamyl alcohol, benzyl benzoate, citronellol, farnesol, isoeugenol, benzyl alcohol.
No substance banned in the European Union appears on it. The list is served identically in Europe and in the United States, which gives it as the house’s own.