Description
Santal Austral Extrait by Matiere Premiere
100ml Extrait de Parfum
Perfume Author – Aurélien Guichard
Santal Austral Extrait is a creamy sandalwood fragrance, powerful and long lasting. Founder and Perfumer Aurélien Guichard has brought Black Cardamom Absolute Nepal, exclusively developed for Matiere Premiere, as a guest ingredient to the original Santal Austral Eau de Parfum. Combined with a higher perfume concentration and an even higher dosage of the main natural ingredient, Australian Organic Sandalwood Oil, Black Cardamom brings a unique intensity, taking Santal Austral to more spicy and vibrant territory.
Scent Profile – Almond Milk, Australian Sandalwood, Florentine Iris, Benzoin, Tonka Bean with guest ingredient Black Cardamom from Nepal.
Aurélien Guichard comes from a line of seven generations of perfumers. He perpetuated this family know how by becoming a perfumer at an early age and recently took over a business of rose grower in Grasse.
Each of his Matiere Premiere creations reflects the respect of an oral transmission collected with great attention and tenderness. He consider perfumery as a way of life, where sense of observation, sensitivity to other and generosity are the qualities of the perfumer. His inspiration comes mainly from the exchanges with the people he meets.
Aurélien Guichard is the son of the famed perfumer Jean Guichard who is the director of the Givaudan Perfumery school and an incredibly accomplished master perfumer who grew up in Grasse, where his father grew flowers for the perfume industry. Following in his fathers footsteps he has created some of the most coveted fragrances for the houses of Guerlain, Tom Ford, Narciso Rodriguez, Gucci, Nina Ricci, Comme de Garcons, to name a few
