Salute !

And this dream is born again with each new bottle from the house, a dream that has, moreover, been rewarded in the finest way with Fifi Awards for Corsica Furiosa and Tabac Tabou. Once again in 2019 with Salute! and Immortelle Corse, Marc-Antoine Corticchiato takes us into this Corsica that fuels his passion and creativity, in yet another new scene to further enchant us…

When Marc-Antoine Corticchiato tells the story of a Corsica of sharing with Salute!

Scent is something very personal, which depends on one's past and culture, said the perfumer and founder of the house Parfum d'Empire to Usine Nouvelle in 2017. And indeed, every bottle from the lovely house Parfum d'Empire tells a story, a story lived by the perfumer or a story within History, as with Ambre Russe and its leathers of a lost Russia.

There is therefore nothing accidental in the scents of Parfum d'Empire bottles, just as there is no desire to follow current fragrance trends, something this aesthete and poet perfumer flatly refuses. He proves it once again with Salute!, which has nothing of a gourmand or trendy fragrance about it, but rather the taste of nature mingled with the terroir of this magical Corsica that sheltered the aesthete perfumer's childhood as much as his current fragrant creations.

Salute! is therefore a tribute to the Corsican land but also to the people who share love and friendship over a glass of wine, who become intoxicated by this still-wild nature and dream of an angels' share that is sometimes angelic, sometimes fierce.

From the land to the angels' share, Salute! by Parfum d'Empire casts its spell

I love the connection to the land, the terroir and its energy, as expressed by the Corsican vineyard. And I have always wanted to explore the affinity between wines and perfumes. Marc-Antoine Corticchiato on Salute!

And the perfumer knows his wine scents well, having smelled them from a very young age, when his grandfather aged wine in the sun in glass demijohns that held the precious nectar while letting escape a few honeyed, floral whiffs. Today, the perfumer no longer grows grapes, but he does cultivate fragrance, and it is with Salute! that he pays tribute to this late grandfather and to those evenings of sharing that animate his memories.

Salute! opens, against all expectations, in fresh, sparkling waves of citrus where lemon notes mingle with mandarin and grapefruit notes. Then we move a little further into the terroir thanks to vine leaf notes, which blend their delicate green scent with those famous syrupy, sweet notes of wine lees. These notes, sometimes woody, sometimes animalic, pair delightfully with even wilder musky depths, while delicate iris flower envelops the whole with its powdery roundness.