Un bel amour d'été

• Everyday
• Casual

Un bel amour d'été by Parfum d'Empire is conceived as a summer memory that lasts, a sensation of warmth and light that you carry with you. The fragrance draws directly on the perfumer’s summer loves, with the idea of simple, luminous, intense moments. Here everything revolves around sunshine, sun-warmed skin and a radiant, generous, deeply sensory atmosphere.

From the opening, you immediately feel this solar effect, almost oily, like skin covered in monoi. Champaca absolute plays a key role, bringing a creamy, floral texture that suggests both a warm flower and sun cream. There is something very soft and luminous about it, almost tactile.

Then the fragrance moves towards a more gourmand, sensual softness. A light skin facet appears, subtly lifted by a trace of cumin that adds relief. The whole becomes more carnal and alive, with an impression of warm, salty skin in the sun.

Over time, the fragrance settles into a soft, lingering warmth. White flowers remain present, creating an elegant, radiant sillage, both feminine and perfectly unisex. The base is creamy, solar and soothing, like a summer you extend, whether in full sunshine or even in winter to recapture that feeling of warmth.

Parfum d'Empire is an independent French perfume house founded in 2002 by Marc-Antoine Corticchiato, a perfumer and doctor of chemistry. Born in Morocco to Corsican parents, he grew up between his parents’ orange groves in Azemmour and the island’s maquis, in the family home in the village of Cuttoli Corticchiato. A passionate horseman since the age of eight, he did not learn to work with raw materials as a perfumer; rather, as a scientist, he analyzed them for years before bringing them to life. The house’s name refers to the “empire of the senses”, the conviction that perfume appeals not only to the sense of smell, but to all the senses at once. Perfume must be a conquest, romantic, spiritual, or of the self. His vision takes him back to the very origins of perfume: eroticism and the sacred, the two dimensions that all civilizations have recognized in it. His compositions are powerful, crafted without excess, with precision in the service of raw emotion. He draws from a repertoire of rare and complex raw materials, often rarely used elsewhere, chosen for their olfactory authenticity rather than their accessibility. Ambre russe evokes the last tsars. Cuir Ottoman traverses the Orient. Azemour les Orangers brings back to life the Mediterranean of his childhood. Corsica Furiosa and Tabac Tabou earned him two Fifi Awards in 2015 and 2016, the equivalent of the Oscars of the perfume world. A house that is entirely free, entirely unique, entirely itself.