In Desert Orange Blossom we waft to the skyline of Dubai at dusk, warm currents of cinnamon, almond flower, and patchouli rippling our fragrant feathers. Here, we see the globe from a bird’s eye view, swooping down to MEMO’s home in Paris, first, and imagining the rooftop of the Opera Garnier, Rose Paris Rose revealing ruffled notes of fruity rose, davana essence and guaiac oil. There are many ways of travelling the world, and flight is a poetic theme often touched on within the collections, most significantly in the golden wing-topped bottles of The Flying Collection. Or shall we escape to the Ilha do Mel – the most picturesque beach resort in southern Brazil – where sun-warmed honey drizzles mandarin, jasmine and gardenia on a moonlit backdrop of silvery juniper and dusky vanilla? ![]() In Moroccan Leather, meanwhile, orange blossom fills the air with sweetness as spices tingle a warm path to the shade of vetiver and the cypress trees. Italian Leather offers herbaceous notes of clary sage, green tomato leaf and rockrose gently powdered with iris on a richly resinous vanilla base. In French Leather Rose, the sophistication is ramped up, pink pepper and soft musk seguing to the sueded floral heart with a hint of passion-smudged lipstick and a flash of a bare shoulder. Leather is something of a signature for the house, with explorations spanning the globe. Fragrance is openness and abandon.’Ībandoning ourselves to an essential MEMO Paris fragrance, first, we encounter a soaring sensation above Paris in Eau de MEMO, proudly showcased in The Perfume Society‘s Fragrance Discovery Box collaboration with Harvey Nichols: a euphoric dive into radiant bergamot and jasmine carried aloft on the softest, supple, buttery leather accord. Fragrance has that initiatory dimension of travel, the threshold between the known and the unknown. The fragrances take a destination, and, they explain, ‘…makes it the point of departure for an epic adventure of the senses. Graines Vagabondes sow the seeds of natural ingredients like sesame, still a rarity in perfumery, while Art Land pays tribute ‘to mysterious territories transformed by the artistic hand of humankind’.īut for MEMO Paris it goes far beyond merely evoking somewhere lovely to imagine. Cuirs Nomades explore the leather note through emblematic destinations, from Africa to Italy. Together they saw MEMO Paris as a house ‘forging its identity around magical destinations and potent raw materials… the promise of a magical journey, extended beyond its end and constantly re-travelled.’Īnd so, the fragrances are split into four main journeys: Les Échappées – six scented mooring points leading from chic and Bohemian Paris to the heart of Burma. ![]() Founding their niche fragrance brand in 2007, MEMO Paris is the perfect creative collaboration between them – she a gifted Parisian-Catalan poet, he a sporty Irish globetrotter with the spirit of travel in his blood. And when Clara wrote a book dedicated to ‘noses’ in 2006, she became entranced with the world of perfumery. Having met in a chair-lift in 2005, the sky was the limit for this go-getting duo. Morocco, Ibiza, Ireland, Russia, Spain – just a few eclectic places captured forever in MEMO Paris fragrances, each evoking a particular personal memory for design duo (and married couple) Clara Molloy and John Molloy. Having explored the world and collected an olfactory photo album of perfumed memories, Clara and John Molloy realised they shared a view of fragrance as a journey for the senses – conceptualising MEMO Paris as a collection of scents based on places they have visited and loved… 4160 Tuesdays What I Did On My Holidays.4160 Tuesdays What I Did on my Holidays.4160 Tuesdays The Sexiest Scent on the Planet.4160 Tuesdays The Dark Heart of Old Havana.4160 Tuesdays Midnight in the Palace Garden.4160 Tuesdays Another Kiss by the Fireside.Memoize London Light Range Discovery Set.Memoize London Dark Range Discovery Set.
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