In the heart of the City of Light, on the way to the twilight of the day, there is a bridge, a poem and a perfume.

It's a discreet and symbolic bridge in Paris, of the master-builder spirit which transcends borders, becoming better by coming together. It composes a memory, joins another bank, and returns. Its solid foundations of cedar, sandalwood and orcanox span love and musk.

It's a poem as slow as it is violent, expressing the brutal hope of one who would like to believe, of the one who wants to love. Vanilla, I write your name on the water, with muffled traces of incense and violet green.

It's a perfume to save us, to fish us silently out of the water, bringing us above the Seine. Bergamot and pink pepper mingle with fig in a glass bottle, fiercely reuniting bodies in unison with souls.

There are bridges where we dance: as children, we sang to them. Some, where we fought, have had their names secured in history. Others offer their architectual perfection to the admiration of generations. All are famous.

But there is one that needed neither dances, nor battles, nor works of genius to impose itself on our memories: it is the Mirabeau Bridge. For this, twenty lines were enough.

It must be said that they were written by a poet, and that his poem was about love, unhappy love. When Apollinaire composed it, the Marie he loved had left him. But we can only guess at their story, which he does not tell, and is it not the story of so many lovers? Love has fled, like water and like the days.

The perfume which will bear the name of the Mirabeau Bridge had to translate its force, because it resists the flow of the river and of time. The delicacy of the fragrance, mixed with its base, conveys the melancholy of lost loves, while also imposing a sharpness suitable to the poem's "violent hope.'

Mirabeau: a pretty word, peculiarly Parisian, suspended above the Seine.

Notes: sustainable Italian bergamot HE, pure pink pepper Jungle Essence™, elemi HE, fig accord, incense superessence, aquatic accord, ozonic accord, violet green, upcycled Virginia Cedar, pure vanilla Jungle Essence™, sandalwood HE, upcycled Orcanox™, musks