SEMENCE DOUCE

A SENSUAL CONTRAST OF ALMOND, SAFFRON, AND FRESHLY CUT TULIP STEMS

A fragrance that moves between innocence and provocation, between softness and something strangely intense. Inspired by the elusive scent of the tulip, it carries the feeling of something just coming into bloom, already sensing its own impermanence.

The scent opens like an embrace, where almond milk and saffron meet in a warm, almost salty-tinged accord. Soon, a greener freshness begins to unfold, with notes that evoke the tulip’s juicy, slightly sticky stem and the pulse of freshly cut life.
At the heart, hyacinth and almond blossom begin to bloom, before Heliotrope gives the composition a soft, almost pearlescent finish that lingers on the skin.

Semence Douce is a fragrance of contrasts. Sweetness and depth, vitality and decline, tenderness and physical presence. The result is sensual, unusual, and difficult to fully define, just like the most beautiful moments often are.

EDP (2025)

Perfumer: Bertrand Duchaufour