Sirenide

Sirenide Eau de Parfum.

Orkney, an archipelago located to the north of Scotland, plays host to the inspiration of this fragrance. According to ancient Orkney myth, shapeshifting creatures – Selkies – inhabit the bodies of seals and, coming out of the water, shed their skin to walk among the human population. Often in these stories the selkie’s skin is found and hidden by local men, and they are forced to marry their human captor.

In our rendering of this tale, however, the selkie takes the upper hand… horrified that he has tanned her precious skin, the selkie poisons her captor, reclaiming the leather and returning finally to the tumbling sea.

Sirenide Eau de Parfum therefore, is a suitably formidable fragrance: powerful and haunting, with triplicate aspects of ‘skins’ developing on your own. PVC melds with pinseal and an unnerving bitter almond note… water flowers blossom and die, returning to the water.

THE WEARING EXPERIENCE

Top Notes: Blue Flag Iris, Water Hawthorn, Bitter Almond, Aniseed

Sharp aquatic florals pierced with bitter almond and anise open haunting and irresistible.

Heart Notes: Water Lily, Pink Lotus

An ethereal heart emerges, with water flowers blooming briefly.

Base Notes: Ambergris, Cedar Atlas, Woodruff, Pinseal

Dark leather, salt soaked ambergris and cedar ground the composition.

Perfumer: Euan McCall.

Ingredients: Alcohol Denat., Parfum, Acetyl Cedrene*, Hexamethylindanopyran*, Citrus Aurantium Bergamia Peel Oil*, Vanillin*, Pogostemon Cablin Oil*, Linalyl Acetate*, Trimethylcyclopentenyl Methylisopentenol*, Cedrus Atlantica Oil/Extract*, Benzaldehyde*, Pinene*, Terpineol*, Terpinolene*, Beta-Caryophyllene*, Anethole*, Alpha-Terpinene*, Limonene*, Citral*, Geranyl Acetate*. *Present as part of parfum.