#Perfume artmatic serena skin#
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Tuberose and jasmine grandiflorum, cassie with its furred acacia spice, honeyed underbelly: each one hints, just the merest insinuation – of their animalic nature.įrangipani is simply full of succulent joy, brazenly floral and spicy, creamy. Furthermore, the tang of guava and neroli counterbalance, palmarosa – an Indian grass fragrant with a verdant/rosy/lemon scent profile feels entirely welcome and somewhat tonic. Benzoin has several attributes besides being a gooey resin – subtle spices and a woody tonality contribute nuance, and that’s a positive.

Yes, the base teems with unctuous notes: vanilla, caramel, butter. Not that you’ll miss them, I’ll warrant – because there is abundant exoticism to enjoy.ĬURATA DULCEO is sweet and sensuous it refuses to 'Kill By Cloying', however. There’s not a smidgen of coconut to be found, no Calone smell-alikes. Caramel and butter may come from anywhere, likewise sweet orange – and Morocco (neroli) is not classified as a tropical country.Įvery other fruit or flower sings of the luxurious swelter in which such precious plants thrive, and their mellifluous voices whisper from the far reaches of India, Madagascar, Réunion, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, the South Pacific…distant locales of the fevered imagination (unless you’re fortunate enough to live there).

There are exceptions to every rule: materials such as violet leaf are frequently sourced from Egypt (only southern Upper Egypt is tropical!) cassie is usually French or Egyptian in origin. Tropical and beachy are not synonyms mention the first and there may be an instantaneous association with sun-warmed skin, sand, salt, water. CURATA DULCEO is tropical in that its components primarily derive from warmer climes and don’t evoke dallying with suntan oil. I can only imagine what the flesh wafts and feels like when AUREO and DULCEO present in tandem. When I peruse the ingredients, I’m not surprised: skin-loving olive squalane and coconut oil are present in its formula.

#Perfume artmatic serena skin#

While I’ve not yet had the opportunity to sample AUREO – a vanilla, white grapefruit and tuberose-scented face/body/bath/everything beauty treatment laden with exquisite oils – Serena recently sent me a sample of CURATA DULCEO, a natural exotic floral gourmand perfume which actually leaves the skin feeling softer on contact (this isn’t in a press release I discovered it upon application). To date there are two products intended to stand alone or be combined as the mood/need suits: a multi radiance oil, AUREO and botanical perfume extract, DULCEO. CURATA is invested in creating hedonistically pleasurable cruelty-free products which multi-task: one gets to have the cake and eat it too. The name comes from the Latin verb “ ad curare” – “ to care for”. Independent creative and botanical perfumer Beckie Sheloske has taken up the olfactory baton for Montréal-based CURATA, a sustainable luxury venture created by founder and creative director Serena Rogers. Serena Rogers, Beckie Sheloske, cacao beans and other images courtesy of Serena Rogers© collage Michelyn