Le Parfum Essentiel
Le Parfum Essentiel: the new fragrance from Elie Saab with summer scents. Elie Saab expressed a very early calling for design. Although coming from a modest background, he quickly did everything he could to achieve his dream: setting up his own couture atelier and rising to the highest spheres of fashion.
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Now famous worldwide, he then decided to add an extra touch of refinement to his outfits. This is how he launched his first fragrance, in 2011: Le Parfum Elie Saab. Year after year, this highly luxurious juice has kept reinventing itself. For 2020, it gives rise to yet another new composition. So, what about Elie Saab's Le Parfum Essentiel?
Elie Saab combines luxury and freedom
Elie Saab's Le Parfum Essentiel first dazzles with the beauty of its bottle. As always, its container expresses all the love and fascination that Elie Saab holds for design and architecture. Its walls are sculpted like those of a diamond, forming multiple facets. Thanks to them, light reflects from every direction in this transparent bottle, as if giving rise to a fascinating shimmer within its rose-peach colored juice. Perfectly sculpted to fit a woman's grip, this bottle is topped with a glass cap, whose neck is beautifully illuminated with a colored trim. A gold label also displays the name of this fragrance on its front face, with sobriety and elegance. Finally, a crest appears in the background, as if to recall all the nobility of Elie Saab's Le Parfum Essentiel.
Yet, do not be fooled by this highly refined appearance. This juice encourages the woman who wears it to free herself from convention in order to fully accomplish herself and follow her desires. Far more than a simple scent, Elie Saab's Le Parfum Essentiel delivers a strong message and invites fulfillment. It offers an initiatory journey to all those who wear it with pride, toward the discovery of their inner self and their values. Highly contrasted, this fragrance displays a radiant femininity!
Mandarin makes its way into Elie Saab's Le Parfum Essentiel
Elie Saab's Le Parfum Essentiel contains a highly nuanced and contrasted scent. As such, it perfectly conveys the duality of Elie Saab's universe, between East and West. The DNA of this composition has been preserved, but new scents have been added to this essence. Perfumer Maïa Lernout has here given rise to a livelier, airier essence, dominated by mandarin. Appearing right from the top notes, this tangy citrus fruit brings a breath of dynamism into everyday life. It is then relayed by the presence of gardenia, symbolizing all the femininity of the house of Elie Saab. Of course, orange blossom and patchouli, emblems of Le Parfum Essentiel, are still present. A touch of cedar is also added at its base, as if to reinforce the depth and tenacity of this juice.
Olfactory pyramid
- Top notesThe first minutes
- Heart notesThe heart of the perfume
- Base notesWhat lingers
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The advertising
Born in Lebanon, Elie Saab is a designer who drew on his oriental origins to create a fashion straddling cultures, endowed with absolute sensuality and femininity. Then, in 2012, Elie Saab decided to accompany his couture creations with a fragrance. He then launched Parfum Elie Saab, simply bearing his name and beautifully reflecting his unique and highly sophisticated style. Today, this fragrance reinvents itself and becomes Le Parfum Essentiel, an opportunity to reveal once again all the beauty of Blanca Padilla, face of the campaign for the house of Elie Saab since 2014.
Blanca Padilla, in an oriental-inspired advertisement
Blanca Padilla is a young woman sought after by all the greatest fashion brands, her Mediterranean charm lighting up the screen. Yet nothing destined her to become one of the most renowned fashion models on the planet… Blanca Padilla was discovered by chance in the Madrid subway, and that is how she signed a contract with one of the largest Spanish fashion agencies. She quickly walked for Victoria's Secret and even became Female Model of the Year at Madrid's Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, in 2014. It was in fact around that same time that the Elie Saab brand noticed her dark beauty and made her the face of its fragrance campaigns. Since then, the biggest names have sought after her lovely face, such as Dolce & Gabbana and Givenchy. Today, for Elie Saab, Blanca Padilla appears in a flesh and gold colored dress, finely embroidered by Elie Saab. On a rooftop, she overlooks an oriental city, its pink and golden façades contrasting with the azure blue sky. All of this unfolds with simplicity to the track Broken Beauty by Lana Mc Donagh, Timothy Elliot Larcombe and Wayne Anthony Murray, offering along the way a journey into the heart of the Arabian nights.
Le Parfum Essentiel, an olfactory jewel signed Elie Saab
Le Parfum Essentiel was created by perfumer Maïa Lernout, who deliberately chose to move away from the orange blossom and patchouli notes of Elie Saab's previous essences. Here, its main duo consists instead of mandarin and gardenia flower. Dazzling and highly feminine, Le Parfum Essentiel is further illuminated by neroli with shimmering glints, before darkening with cedar, a more woody and authentic ingredient, with a strong and highly charismatic femininity. In terms of design, Elie Saab's Le Parfum Essentiel comes in a bottle sculpted like a jewel. Its glass walls feature multiple facets and play with light, reflecting it into a slightly amber colored juice. While the neck of this bottle is decorated with a flesh colored ribbon, the Elie Saab seal appears in calligraphy on its walls, giving this visual a highly noble and prestigious feel.