Tender River

• Romantic
• Evening

Fleuve Tendre evokes an encounter, something tender at first but which gradually becomes more carnal and profound. The opening is fresh and luminous, with citrus fruits blended with spices that immediately give it dimension. Very quickly, the fragrance becomes softer but also more unsettling with a musky and slightly animalic heart, accompanied by a discreet rose that adds an elegant touch. Over time, the perfume reveals a darker and more sensual facet. Leather, incense, and musk notes settle in and give it an almost addictive depth. The whole creates a contrasting perfume, oscillating between freshness, softness, and animal sensuality, like an evolving love story.

Liquides Imaginaires is a French artistic perfumery house founded in 2012 by Philippe Di Méo, a designer, and David Frossard, an Artistic Director. In ancient times, perfume was intended for the gods before it was intended for humans. It is this original, sacred, and transformative dimension that Philippe Di Méo seeks to restore. Each collection bears a name that refers to the invisible world. Les Eaux Delà because perfume has always been what crosses over, what passes to the other side. Les Eaux de Peau because before language, humans communicated through smell, through the skin, through the animal they still were. Les Eaux Sanguines because wine and blood share the same color and the same sacred intoxication. Les Eaux de l'Est because the routes of incense and spices shaped perfumery long before Grasse. And Les Eaux Imaginaires evoke the great maps of desire, from the Carte de Tendre to the geographies invented by literature. Three perfumes per collection, always. For Philippe Di Méo, the number three represents perfect balance: body, soul, spirit. Past, present, future. Each bottle, designed as an antique vessel with gold or silver stoppers, is itself a ritual object. He describes his creations as talismans in the literal sense: objects charged with power, capable of opening something within the wearer.