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Isabelle Larignon was pondering a few concepts for a perfume when she heard a radio interview with Lydie Lescarmontier, a French scientist with a specialisation in glaciers. What, Larignon wondered, is the smell of snow? and could she evoke it through scent? This would be her project. She began to research snow and ice, going back in time to the astronomer-mathematician Johann Kepler.
Isabelle Larignon was pondering a few concepts for a perfume when she heard a radio interview with Lydie Lescarmontier, a French scientist with a specialisation in glaciers. What, Larignon wondered, is the smell of snow? and could she evoke it through scent? This would be her project. She began to research snow and ice, going back in time to the astronomer-mathematician Johann Kepler.
Kepler’s 1611 essay On the Six-Cornered Snowflake was the first scientific consideration of snow’s fascinating duality. Every snowflake is one-of-a-kind, he emphasized, yet all of them are symmetrical, six-sided forms. Pondering snowflakes’ infinite variety and looking at Kepler’s sketches of these fragile little hexagons, Larignon began to devise an aromatic equivalent.
If you close your eyes and inhale Le Flocon de Johann K, you may have an initial impression of chilly air, damp soil, and veils of frost on window panes. However, this isn’t a dark or dank fragrance. Remember, fallen snow seems to sparkle: every crystal of snow catches and scatters light from its facets, like a tiny jewel. In this perfume (metaphorically speaking), the snow’s coolness is balanced by the glow of reflected sunlight.
Le Flocon de Johann K isn’t just a beautiful fragrance; it’s a chic fragrance. It’s certainly refined enough to be worn out for a candlelight dinner, but it also offers a playful element of surprise. As it evolves on skin, its frosty topnotes begin to dissolve, revealing honey-sweet notes of mimosa. In France, mimosa flowers are early signs of spring. In Le Flocon de Johann K, we experience the melting away of silvery top notes to reveal the soft yellow puffs of a mimosa-bloom heart. Does the first flower of spring ever fail to lift our spirits? Isabelle Larignon has taken us from a scientific treatise to a spontaneous smile, all through the craft of her fragrance.
Alcohol Denat. (78% VOL.), Aqua (Water), Parfum (Fragrance), Limonene, Alpha-Pinenes, Citrus Aurantium Bergamia Fruit Oil, Beta-Pinenes, Acetyl Cedrene, Beta-Caryophyllene, Linalool, L-Menthol, Citral, Narcissus Extract, Benzyl Benzoate, Anise Alcohol, Alpha-Terpineol, Linalyl Acetate, Farnesol.
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