Chapter VI · The First Root
Impériale Oud
Rose · Velvet · Oud
$16550 ml
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- Complimentary 30 day returns and exchanges.
Rich and unhurried. The rose stays for the evening and the shadow of the oud well past it.
Chapter VI of L'Arbre de Vie · The First Root
Rose · Velvet · Oud
Before the rose was white, it was red. Impériale Oud is that rose at its origin, low in the tree, full, unhurried, and entirely of the earth. Bulgarian rose oil opens over velvet orris and violet, while beneath it runs genuine Oud Assafi, among the most prized ouds in the world, drawing a deep resinous shadow under the flower so the rose reads rich rather than pretty. Patchouli carries it far into the evening. This is where a self takes root: grounded, wise, quietly commanding. The rose the climbing rose remembers.
Featuring wild harvested Oud Assafi from Sylhet, Bangladesh, the birthplace of oud.
- TopPink Pepper, Manila Elemi
- HeartBulgarian Rose Oil, Velvet Orris, Violet
- BaseOud Assafi (wild-harvested in Sylhet, Bangladesh), Indonesian Patchouli
Delivery and returns
Fast, complimentary shipping on every order.
Complimentary returns and exchanges within 30 days. Returns and exchanges
Presentation and gifting
Presentation. The signature coffret, black for Les Racines.
Every full bottle leaves the house in its signature coffret, ready to give. A handwritten note on request: write it in the note field of your bag.
With every full bottle comes one 2.5 ml chapter of your choice, so the bottle can stay sealed until you are certain. Choose it in your bag. It travels beside the bottle in the coffret.
Format and ingredients
Format. 50 ml eau de parfum, spray. Composed and hand finished in house.
Chapter VI · The First Root
Provenance
Where the materials come from
The naturals in Impériale Oud and the places they are grown. Where no origin is printed, none is claimed.
- 01 Litsea cubeba China
- 02 Thyme Spain
- 03 Pink pepper Brazil and Réunion
- 04 Cinnamon Sri Lanka
- 05 Rose oil Bulgaria
- 06 Patchouli Indonesia
- 07 Cypriol India
- 08 Guaiacwood Gran Chaco
- 09 Atlas cedarwood Morocco
- 10 Oud Sylhet, Bangladesh
- 11 Elemi Philippines
- 12 Labdanum Spain
Origins as recorded in the house formula books. Every material, its origin and its story
Chapter VI · The First Root
Inspired by Wisdom
Wisdom is what you make of what hurt you.
It does not announce itself. Before the rose was white, it was red: Impériale Oud is that rose at its origin, the first root of the tree. Two of its materials are wisdom itself. Oud is a resin the aquilaria tree makes only when it is wounded, and only over years; beneath the rose runs genuine Oud Assafi from Sylhet, Bangladesh. Orris is a root kept for years before it gives up its scent, and here it lies velvet beside violet, the softness of having nothing left to prove.
The Perfumer
