Houbigant's new release: Ambre des Abysses (by Luca Maffei, 2023)
I love that everything Houbigant creates shows consistency . First of all, consistency with the special history -three hundred years long- of this brand. Then, consistency with the personality and style of the people behind it, and with their personal vision of perfume: a vision that speaks of a sophisticated, serene, balanced, smiling kind of elegance. In a word: a happy one. Although Houbigant was born as a perfumer for the Royals at the time of Marie Antoinette, the perfumes it offers are not intended to affirm any idea of richness or beauty, nor to be noticed among others. They do not shout their presence all around. Perhaps, their success lies in the fact that they aim for happiness. The happiness of those who create them, and the happiness of those wearing them. Happiness, in perfumery, is a rare quality. At Esxence I met their new Pivoine Souveraine by Celine Ellena, a hymn to spring, at the center of which shines a floral accord as fresh, beautiful, and bright as ...