Encounters

On a cool evening, a soft electric hum of orange and lavender brushes against the skin, bright but never sharp, like the first light falling across an old stone cloister.

Soon, a rich, powdery iris wraps around the air, plush and a little secretive, as if a well‑worn book has been opened in a room thick with incense. Beneath it, oud and warm woods curl up slowly—smoky, slightly animalic, wrapped in benzoin and Peru balsam—turning the mood intimate and slightly transgressive, like entering a place where two distant worlds quietly agree to mingle. 

• Francesca Bianchi

Francesca Bianchi Perfumes is the self-titled house of perfumer and founder Francesca Bianchi, an Italian creator who develops her emotional, sensual and intimate fragrances in her Amsterdam studio. Her extraits are conceived as perfume as art, composed with a strong focus on high-quality raw materials and a long, meticulous creative process for each formula, inviting wearers into a deeply personal and expressive olfactory world.