Histoires de Parfums has enchanted us for years with evocative scent stories meticulously set in carerfully chosen times and places. But for This Is Not A Blue Bottle, Gerald Ghislain felt compelled to move in the opposite direction and deliver a scent divorced from the usual trappings, a dadaist canvas both teeming with energy but also presented as a blank slate, where the interaction between the scent and the nose that experiences it is a full collaboration, free of preconceived conceptual bias. The resulting fragrance is intentionally hard to pin down, a vibrant yet layered unisex spicy floral with intense metallic aldehydes, sweet honey, and luminously warm ambered patchouli. The flacon itself is a object of beauty, the familiar yet striking angled Histoires de Parfums bottle redone in eye-popping matte blue, entirely opaque, inviting the wearer to invent his or her own story as soon as the perfume touches their skin- and not a moment before.
