Féraud
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Angelica's green bite collides immediately with orange blossom's honeyed warmth, whilst artemisia adds a faintly medicinal harshness. That putrescent undertone emerges almost at once—not quite unpleasant, rather unsettlingly organic and faintly animalic, as if someone's opened a jar of something fermented alongside the flowers.
The floral core settles into violet leaf's peppery earthiness and narcissus absolute's narcotic but restrained elegance, with jasmine adding sensuality without sweetness. The green and animalic notes remain equally weighted, creating a botanical tension—something simultaneously like a perfumed attic and a wild garden—that prevents any cloying tendencies.
Cedarwood and vetiver emerge with gentle authority, whilst myrrh adds a resinous, slightly dusty character and patchouli deepens the earthiness. The fragrance becomes considerably quieter, a whispered woody-animalic hum rather than a declaration, before fading noticeably within the hour.
Fantasque Féraud arrives as a deliberately unsettling floral—one that rejects the commercial sweetness you'd expect from its narcissus and jasmine heart. Cristiano Canali has constructed something genuinely peculiar here: the opening's angelica and artemisia create a herbal, almost medicinal sharpness that clashes beautifully with orange blossom's buttery roundness, whilst that curious "putrescence" note adds an animalic unease, like walking past a garden where something organic is decomposing beneath the blooms. This isn't beautiful in the traditional sense; it's challenging, almost confrontational.
The green accords dominate throughout—violet leaf's peppery earthiness prevents the jasmine from ever becoming ladylike or powdery. Instead, you get a fragrance that smells simultaneously floral and verdant, like pressing your face against damp grass beside a flowering shrub. The animalic character lingers persistently, that slightly fetid undertone that gives the composition genuine personality rather than prettiness.
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