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Sacré Bleu
Eau de Parfum Spray 30 ml (NEW)

Sacre Bleu Eau de Parfum Spray
 
Scent Family: Soliflore
The inspiration for my Sacré Bleu perfume is the marriage of sacred blue lotus absolute with divine hundred-year-old Mysore sandalwood oil. One of our most precious offerings, Sacré Bleu is luminous, honeyed, transcendent, and mesmerizing. The aroma of blue lotus is watery, but extremely complex and blissful with stone fruit and powdery floral facets. Truly legendary blue lotus was the most important scented plant in ancient Egypt. Rumored to have a psychotropic effect: this extraordinary aquatic plant played a prominent role in mythology and religion.

Over the last hundred years, this soft, sweet and woody Mysore sandalwood oil has aged, like a fine wine, into a smooth, sweet creamy woody aroma of profound richness and depth. Boronia plays a supporting role offering up a mouthwatering combination of aromatic raspberries, apricots, and freesia. Sacré Bleu dries down to the warmth of black tea wrapped around rare ambergris.

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Character: watery, luminous, honeyed, transcendent, mesmerizing.

Fragrant Notes: antique sandalwood, blue lotus, ambergris, boronia, black tea, mimosa, beta ionone, methyl anthranilate


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Reviews
 
Sacré Bleu is that rare offering when we can experience the exceedingly careful placement of olfactive watch wheels and jewels into the back of a time-keeping mechanism. To smell its patiently aged Mysore sandalwood and unusual grouping of floral notes with tea and ambergris is akin to the swinging of a rotor in an automatic watch; not only does it measure the time (and, in this case, reflect the beautiful natural world of smell around us) but it seems to generate time itself. The fragrance elicits strong visualizations, and as I wore Sacré Bleu on a number of occasions, I saw dark underwater caverns, desert sand dunes and their quivering mirages, deep green, damp, and mossy rocks near a shore from which lotuses would rise and bloom. What's at play in this scent that it casts such richly-colored imagery, spanning temperatures and continents? The nose registers a myriad of many small perfumed notes, like something glittering from a shaft of light in a cave, as tea, lotus, sandalwood, and boronia umbrellas emit their own separate trails of scent, their collective cloud of refractions, like bits of mica shining when the seabed is stirred up by a fish
-- John Biebel, Fragrantica



Sacré Bleu is incredible, mythical, like something an Egyptian queen would wear. Such a comforting smell, blissful, I save it for nights that I really need to calm down, and times I just want to be taken somewhere beautiful, when I want everything else in the world to just stop and concentrate on that one thing
-- Suzy Nightingale, On The Scent



Mandy brings together sacred, healing ingredients used for millennia around the world to create a perfume so intensely, viscerally profound that I found myself smiling with joy. HA! I know how that reads. Like such stupid, overblown, ridiculous hyperbole. It’s also true. Sacré Bleu is so beautiful, rich and at the heart feels like communion with a higher plane.

It starts out sweet, like raspberry cordial and honeyed roses growing near a healthy compost heap that’s just been turned. Hot grasses, domesticated farm animals and bosky, earthy goodness. My nose also senses an incredibly soapy jasmine. As that opening burns on I have a very Australian bushwalk smell. Brushing past fragrant native plants, kicking up the leaves and breaking twigs as we pass. Dappled shade and that sharp eucalypt smell at the first drops of rain. The heart warms through with a golden, treacle-like, resinous sandalwood
-- Portia Turbo, Perfume Posse



Mandy has been collecting rare and antique absolutes and oils for many years, and it's a joy to experience them in her formulae. The effect of such rare beauties cannot be overestimated: they are revelatory, illuminating parts of the brain which must have lain dormant for some time. One comes to believe in the holiness inherent in venerable antique Mysore sandalwood and the prohibitively costly blue lotus -- and why they were believed to possess mythical powers.

When first applied to the flesh, Sacré Bleu exhibits a sharp, honeyed aspect with notes of overripe apricot. Its aromatic companion boronia is no lightweight either: together they comprise a formidable couple steeped in erotic overtones. Ambergris invokes subtle aquatic characteristics, while ameliorating everything in its path: there are no current aroma chemicals which even come close to it. When one considers all the angles, it is apparent that Aftelier Sacré Bleu has earned its lofty status. Uniquely riveting in its own right, this fragrance is an homage to the hallowed.
-- Ida Meister, CaFleurBon



Sacré Bleu -- this divine gift opens up with a heady and intoxicating flower scent of boronia reminding me of a lush bouquet of champaca, jasmine and ylang ylang, then I notice the honeyed tea notes, mouthwatering berries and ripe apricots, suddenly the warm and mineralic salt of ambergris starts to slowly emerge with the velvety smoothness of the century old sandalwood. After a while an aquatic and a bit green note starts to surface which must be the sacred and mystical blue lotus flower at its finest opening its petals on the warmth of the skin. Very layered and comforting scent that makes my heart happy.
-- Musae Perfumery