Carissa Flower

Inspiration
The carissa is a shrub with white star-shaped flowers that smell of jasmine and later bear red fruit. In the Garden Collection, Amouroud turned it into a luminous, dreamy floral, in a bottle as red as those berries. According to the house it unfolds over the course of the day, until night falls.

Fragrance Family
Floral and mineral

The Olfactive Composition
Top notes: Himalayan sea salt, tuberose, mandarin, osmanthus
Heart notes: Black lilac, carissa flower, ylang ylang
Base notes: Japanese cedar, ambergris, musk

The Signature of Carissa Flower
What makes Carissa Flower special is its minerality. Sea salt from the Himalayas gives the creamy tuberose and the osmanthus a briny edge, mandarin brings light. In the heart bloom black lilac, ylang-ylang and the carissa itself. Japanese cedar, ambergris and musk keep the base cool and clean rather than sweet.

What our ParfuMaria team thinks of this fragrance
Carissa Flower surprises people who think tuberose is always heavy. On the skin it starts like a flower shop on a cool morning, then grows creamier and ends as a soft, saline skin scent with cedar. Lovely for a spring wedding, a gallery opening or simply a workday when you want to treat yourself. A floral for women who prefer refinement over volume.