After the mythical garden of Hesperides, that gave us Eau d'Hadrien, and the "Asian garden after the rain" transposed in Un Matin d'orage, Annick Goutal takes us to another garden, more secret and even more beautiful. If in the previous cases the "garden" was a metaphor located somewhere in the Eden of beautiful scents inspired by nature, this time it is an ancient garden located near Rome. The Ninfa Gardens from Italy with their amazing landscape à l'anglaise and medieval castle.
The imaginary landscape "Ninfeo mio" is a contemplative emerald perfume of a romantic beauty. The fascination with ancient places surrounded by an opulent vegetation gave us a genre in fine arts. This time the power of the secret place was sealed in a perfume drop by Camille Goutal and Isabelle Doyen.
In the new aesthetic of freshness from Annick Goutal, following the first citrusy green Eau d'Hadrien and the more recent Un Matin d'Orage, Mandragore and Mandragore pourpre, the new creation brings the missing element. It is the forbidden fruit hidden under green leaves and opulent flowers in that imaginary paradise protected by the 3 mythical scents that form the word AME.
Very citrusy lemon, the perfume breathes between the green acidity of cedrat/lemon and the milkyness of lactones rounded by soft musks and woods and maybe a hint of delicate coumarine with its almond-hay-sweet note. The lavender note, very unusual for a perfume but with a great predecessor - Moment Supreme, is used here to impart the herbal effect of the vegetation hidden under the great trees of the garden (cypress I think).
The fig note is rather unusual, it is green lactonic leafy but it is not the pungent fig we are used to (and I think Labienoxime was used for that) and the combination of green/herbal/vegetal/fruity/lactonic elements suggests also another special material - mango leaf oil though it was not used in the perfume. Inside this special garden the nymphs are wearing delicate garlands of flowers - light jasmine, honeysuckle and soft rose/geranium with a small drop of green galbanum to suggest the green watery note (almost lotus).
Another concept used in the perfume is the "lemon wood" (bois de citronnier). It is the soft scent of a burning bark from the lemon tree Isabelle Doyen experienced many years ago that became the dark soul of Ninfeo mio.
From the very green and lemony top, the fragrance becomes warm, powdery and intimate underlined by a very special note - lentisque absolute.
Ninfeo mio is the surprise of an amazing emerald garden that gave me the same emotion as Un Matin d'Orage (but the formulas are not similar). Open the bottle and the leaves will invade your room with the mystery of life - the delicious fruit of temptation floating on the river of memories.
In the new aesthetic of freshness from Annick Goutal, following the first citrusy green Eau d'Hadrien and the more recent Un Matin d'Orage, Mandragore and Mandragore pourpre, the new creation brings the missing element. It is the forbidden fruit hidden under green leaves and opulent flowers in that imaginary paradise protected by the 3 mythical scents that form the word AME.
Very citrusy lemon, the perfume breathes between the green acidity of cedrat/lemon and the milkyness of lactones rounded by soft musks and woods and maybe a hint of delicate coumarine with its almond-hay-sweet note. The lavender note, very unusual for a perfume but with a great predecessor - Moment Supreme, is used here to impart the herbal effect of the vegetation hidden under the great trees of the garden (cypress I think).
The fig note is rather unusual, it is green lactonic leafy but it is not the pungent fig we are used to (and I think Labienoxime was used for that) and the combination of green/herbal/vegetal/fruity/lactonic elements suggests also another special material - mango leaf oil though it was not used in the perfume. Inside this special garden the nymphs are wearing delicate garlands of flowers - light jasmine, honeysuckle and soft rose/geranium with a small drop of green galbanum to suggest the green watery note (almost lotus).
Another concept used in the perfume is the "lemon wood" (bois de citronnier). It is the soft scent of a burning bark from the lemon tree Isabelle Doyen experienced many years ago that became the dark soul of Ninfeo mio.
From the very green and lemony top, the fragrance becomes warm, powdery and intimate underlined by a very special note - lentisque absolute.
Ninfeo mio is the surprise of an amazing emerald garden that gave me the same emotion as Un Matin d'Orage (but the formulas are not similar). Open the bottle and the leaves will invade your room with the mystery of life - the delicious fruit of temptation floating on the river of memories.
Photos of the Ninfa gardens
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