Aromatic Corsican maquis with an imperial trail
A trail left by builders and passionate souls who never forget their origins or those who stayed behind on their island, an island with an immortal fragrance…
First comes the freshness of citrus (mandarin, bergamot), followed by the strength of aromatic herbs (myrtle and rosemary). Finally, the fragrance asserts its personality with the warm notes of the wild maquis (helichrysum, cistus and oakmoss), mingled with incense.
Top Notes: Bergamot, lavender, myrtle.
Heart Notes: Neroli, licorice, tea.
Base Notes: Helichrysum, cistus, oakmoss.
Eau de Parfum 50ml.
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EAU DE GLOIRE leaves the mark of an imperial trail across the Mediterranean. A world imagined by its creator to retrace the journeys of those Corsicans who left their villages to conquer the world.
Like his father, who left everything behind to settle in Morocco, on lands soon to be planted with citrus trees, and like the most famous of them all, Bonaparte.
EAU DE GLOIRE evokes these human journeys, at once glorious and tragic. Through perseverance and passion, this thirst for elsewhere builds empires, great and small, sometimes lost in a twist of fate.
In their minds and hearts, the Corsican exiles carry not a photograph of their island, but the scent of the maquis, passionate and full of character. “With my eyes closed, in the darkest night, if by some miracle I found myself transported to Corsica, I would recognize it at once by its smell,” once wrote a young cadet at the military academy of Brienne—a certain Bonaparte…