The feminine fragrance from Nina Ricci, L'Extase Le parfum is far from being merely an everyday object accompanying one's toilette. It is above all an asset of seduction that women wear to please men and that men also use to reveal their sensuality. What is more, it serves to please oneself and to feel better in one's own body.
Since the 1940s, the house of Nina Ricci has offered floral and highly feminine fragrances. In recent years, however, the house has been creating younger and more playful fragrances for young women in search of romantic flowers and fruity, modern scents. With L'Extase, Nina Ricci turns once again toward more mature women in search of freedom, as in the days of L'Air du Temps. This time, L'Extase unleashes their powers of seduction while losing none of the hushed elegance of Nina Ricci fragrances.
A fragrance of sensation more than of scent, L'Extase by Francis Kurkdjian for Nina Ricci
While L'Air du Temps had managed to offer postwar women a fragrance that perfectly matched their longing for freedom, joy and simple pleasures, Nina Ricci fragrances gradually came to address young women far more than assertive women, with fragrances such as Nina, Luna or Ricci Ricci.
Yet the house still had much to offer more mature women still in search of flowers and freedom, and it would demonstrate this with delight through the talent of Francis Kurkdjian and the marvelous L'Extase.
Of course, by 2018, the era in which L'Air du Temps breathed a hard-won independence into women seems quite distant! Yet not all freedoms have been secured, and L'Extase, released in 2014, would help win new ones, almost 70 years later…
L'Extase would thus stand as an ode to femininity. A femininity that, according to its perfumer, would take shape through the sensation of being free to dream, to flourish and to fantasize, to give free rein to one's sexuality. Thus for L'Extase, Francis Kurkdjian did not seek to showcase specific raw materials but rather to create a vaporous, intoxicating sensation through an extremely musky rose. L'Extase is not merely a fragrance, it is an emotion, a dream…
L'Extase does not smell of rose or vanilla. It is a sensation that the fragrance must recreate, Francis Kurkdjian told Le Parisien about his creation of Nina Ricci's L'Extase.
The fragrance L'Extase, where musk makes the rose bloom…
While the perfumer who composed L'Extase denies having sought to bring out one olfactory ingredient over another, it is clear that rose, Francis Kurkdjian's signature material (very present throughout the saga of Elie Saab fragrances composed by this same perfumer), is the star of this fragrance, at once so feminine and so ardent.
L'Extase thus opens the gates of its olfactory paradise with notes of sharp, energetic pink pepper paired with peaches and pears, sweet and far more voluptuous. At heart, Turkish rose and Bulgarian rose play on their many facets to carry us into a femininity that is at once highly floral and increasingly sensual. For soon, the depths of L'Extase open beneath its thorny flowers to reveal fiery woody and ambery notes, where benzoin, caramel and vanilla become a gourmand velvet of all these powers…