Musc Miroir

Musks respond to one another, and reveal all their beauty.

A wild musk with a softer, enveloping character sits at the centre. Pink pepper and an ambergris accord bring it up, and the warmth of dry wood runs against the softness of a milky accord.

Tonka bean and orange blossom sit inside the milk, with saffron behind them. Benzoin, ambroxan and labdanum hold an almost animalistic sensuality against the skin, and sandalwood keeps it dry.

ORMAIE is a family-owned 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, and no colourings are added: the colour of an ORMAIE juice comes solely from the ingredients in it. 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.