"This is not an Oriental fragrance, it is an Arabian, a Lutens. So do not expect it to be like the rest.
I started with a fragrant wax that I had found in a souk and that had long been forgotten in a wooden box. The amber took on a sultan-like character after I reworked the composition with cistus rose, a spice that sticks to the fingers like tar, and then acquired an overtone that no one had ever thought of: vanilla. Why? Vanilla is sticky too, and that is why it lingered in my memory."
Serge Lutens
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