Ciel Immobile

• Everyday
• Casual

Ciel Immobile captures a moment frozen under a blazing sun, where nature becomes almost abstract.

From the opening, you sense a green, slightly saline freshness, like a warm breeze passing over fig leaves and sun-baked rocks. The effect is both luminous and dry, with a sense of dense, almost motionless air. The fragrance soon reveals a more mineral, textured side, where greenery mingles with something more arid, almost stony.

Over time, Ciel Immobile settles into a softer but still dry base, where leather gives structure to the whole without ever making it heavy. The drydown stays elegant, subtle and contemplative, with a discreet warmth and a very natural signature, like a trace left by the sun on the skin.

Phaedon Paris is a French perfume house founded in the mid-2000s by two Parisian aesthetes, great travellers with a passion for ancient cultures. Its name was chosen with care: Phaedo of Elis, a Greek slave born in 400 BC, taken prisoner during the war between Elis and Sparta. Bought back by a friend of Socrates, he was serving at table one evening when, answering a question put by a guest, he was overheard by Socrates himself. Phaedo would later give his name to one of Plato's most famous dialogues. It is this emblem, of freedom won through intelligence and beauty, that the house chose for its name. Phaedon's visual identity expresses the same depth: two Assyrian griffins taken from a bas-relief from the palace of Darius, on display at the Louvre, crown the logo. The whole aesthetic embraces what the house calls 'baroque naturalism', a richly coloured blend of Etruscan motifs, fig leaves, irises and reeds, and a dreamlike bestiary between the Mediterranean and Asia, laid out like a travel journal crossed with an Art Deco botanical plate. Since the early 2010s, the fragrances have been produced under the artistic direction of perfumer Pierre Guillaume, in his workshops in France. A house that composes its fragrances the way one brings rare objects back from a journey: with memory, precision and a keen sense of what resembles nothing else.