Goddess of Love & Perfume Parfum Extrait

A tribute to Aphrodite, the goddess of pleasure, beauty, love, and- yes- perfume. For this entry in 4160 Tuesdays' Crimes of Passion project, perfumer Sarah McCartney was inspired by the ravishingly full-bodied fruity chypres of the early 1900s, scents like Paul Poiret's Fruits Defendus and Shocking by Schiaparelli. And Goddess of Love & Perfume lives up the the inspiration, delivering a mouthwateringly complex fruit bouquet with an impressively vintage feeling musky drydown. As McCartney describes, this is the scent of power, lust, and attraction, good enough for Venus herself to bathe in "before descending to earth to seduce beautiful shepherd boys tending their flocks." Consider us seduced.