Patchouli Impérial

Patchouli Impérial pays tribute to that famous patchouli which came to give strength and character to the pretty and striking Miss Dior of the 1940s. Patchouli Impérial surprises with a powerful yet refined patchouli that upends the codes to render it majestic.

Patchouli Impérial, or the audacity of an unprecedented patchouli signed François Demachy

François Demachy states plainly that he uses La Collection Privée to offer lovers of Dior fragrances scents that display a bold stance, a creativity without limits. Nothing will be too beautiful, too expensive, or too surprising to create the precious bottles of La Collection Privée. And François Demachy demonstrates this once again with this Patchouli Impérial which, far from the opulent hippie scents of the 1970s, offers a contemporary and refined patchouli wood between citrus accords and delicate floral scents.

François Demachy extracts from the plant an almost ambery and animalic essence, warm, voluptuous, hyper sophisticated. Madame Le Figaro on Patchouli Impérial by Dior.

This Patchouli Impérial thus does not seek to offer the oriental swirls we are used to seeing from it; on the contrary, the precious wood plays with its warmth to create an elegant atmosphere around a very Dior rose and aromatics of powerful freshness.

One might find a resemblance between François Demachy’s approach for Patchouli and that of Jacques Polge at the house of Chanel for Coromandel, released a few years earlier. While the desire to transform patchouli links these two perfumes, Coromandel plays on the gourmand warmth of the wood where Patchouli Impérial plays on its elegance. Two perfumes with patchouli as the star, certainly, but two very different fragrances.

Freshness and splendor of Patchouli Impérial by Dior

As mentioned, François Demachy considers the creation of the perfumes making up La Collection Privée as a recreation, so free are the commercial objectives and so much more instinctive the creativity as a result. As a lover of patchouli and in tribute to the one in Miss Dior, François Demachy sought to make it the star, or rather the king, of this Patchouli Impérial. But a king who hardly needs excess to be great…

Patchouli Impérial opens the doors of its domain by launching truly surprising citrus notes composed of bergamot, mandarin, and Russian coriander essence, which lends these citrus fruits its peppery, zesty edge. At the heart, the most beautiful of unions takes place between a Dior rose so delicate and a patchouli that becomes elegant in this tailor-made suit for the encounter. A touch of cinnamon lends strength and vigor to this surprising yet luxurious union. Finally, benzoin, tonka bean, and vanilla wrap these chypre notes in a halo of gourmand character that takes on sensuality with cedar and amber notes.