Yuzu Fou

• Everyday
• Casual
• Work

Yuzu Fou showcases a Japanese-inspired yuzu, an emblematic ingredient of Japanese culture, known for its bright freshness but also for its bitter, complex facets. The idea is to capture all its richness, not only its freshness but also its bitter, zesty, almost textured side, with real development on the skin.

From the opening, the fragrance bursts with a bright, energising freshness. The yuzu is sharp, almost electric, with a slightly bitter, green facet that makes it very realistic. This is not a simple or clean freshness, but something rawer and more natural, like zest squeezed by hand.

Then the fragrance moves towards something more structured. The freshness remains, but grows calmer, joined by aromatic and slightly spicy nuances that add relief.

Over time, Yuzu Fou warms slightly and becomes more textured. Woody and musky notes support the citrus, bringing a steadier, more refined base. The drydown stays fresh but softer, with an elegant, natural and long-lasting signature, like a freshness that evolves rather than disappears.

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.