Venenum is one of the six eaux de parfum L’Artisan Parfumeur gathered under the name Natura Fabularis in 2016. Daphné Bugey set three memories of India inside it: a spiced masala tea, steamed rice, a creamy sandalwood. The Latin name announces poison; the house speaks of a venom that makes the mouth water.
Three materials and nothing else: a masala tea, a rice, a sandalwood. Wikiparfum keeps to the same ones as the house.
Tea, rice, sandalwood
The masala tea opens, spiced and milky. The rice occupies the middle, steamed, almost floury. Sandalwood closes the fragrance, creamy, and it is the one the readings hear taking over at the end.
The masala stays in prose
The reference list carries no entry for masala tea: the note folds onto tea, and the blend of spices that marks it stays described without being set down, the house naming no spice separately.
What the house does not tier
No tier is published. The order kept here takes up what the readings report: an opening of tea, a middle of milky rice, a sandalwood that wins out at the end. Printemps speaks of wheat where the house, Harrods and Luckyscent name rice; the isolated wording is set aside.
What the label declares
Twenty-one entries: denatured alcohol, fragrance, water, three ultraviolet filters, twelve regulated allergens — linalool, limonene, citronellol, coumarin, eugenol, citral, cinnamyl alcohol, cinnamal, geraniol, benzyl benzoate, benzyl alcohol, isoeugenol — and three colourings, a blue, a red, a yellow. Incenza serves a full disclosure of some forty entries, which names sandalwood oil and santalol.