DSH Perfumes

Paradise Lost (Clarimonde Perfume Project)

Paradise Lost (Clarimonde Perfume Project) by DSH Perfumes is a Oriental Floral fragrance for women and men. Paradise Lost (Clarimonde Perfume Project) was launched in 2011. The nose behind this fragrance is Dawn Spencer Hurwitz. Top notes are Violet, Immortelle, Chamomile and Champaca; middle notes are Floral Notes, Lotus, Surf Wax and Orris; base notes are Amber, Myrrh, Sweet Notes and Animal notes. “Just as T. Gautier was inspired by the luscious colors of Delacroix, I found the sensuously atmospheric descriptions throughout the love story to evoke otherworldly perfumes and luminosities. The phrase “ A twilight blue oriental perfume” most captured my imagination from the first time I heard it along with the image of faded flowers along side a bed of gold and silver, attended by a negro page wearing black velvet holding an ivory cane; and the satiny hand of “Clarimonde” as she lay dying. This cool, almost misty scene that might have been a last glimpse of Clarimonde paired with an alternate universe of warm opulence in Venice were always shimmering in my mind’s eye as I created “Paradise Lost”. Top notes: wild blue chamomile, immortelle, pressed violets, golden champaca. Heart notes: faded flowers, candlewax, oriental lotus, black orris. Base notes: sable fur, fossilized amber, myrrh gum, bloody sweet accord, mitti.