32°

It's 32°C, and not a breath of wind.

The air burns and the sun presses down on the skin. A tuberose, majestic and narcotic, is softened by the freshness of a crisp pear.

Lingering heat leaves the trace of a summer that never ends. Its accord is white flowers, musks and fruit.

ORMAIE is a house of French Haute Parfumerie founded by Baptiste Bouygues and Marie-Lise Jonak. Creativity, excellence and time sit at the centre of what it makes, and the work is personal before it is anything else: a father's lavender and the Armenian paper always kept in a pocket, a leather bookmark carried on travels, the wooden desks of the school the founders went to.

Every release is built from raw materials chosen for quality. The house has brought together artists and artisans to write each chapter of its story. The newest, Les Facettes, sets faceted glass under a metal cap whose colour and material echo the containers a laboratory uses to keep raw materials pure. A balance between emotion and precision.