Violet Fumee

Mona D'Orio

Type: Floral, Green, Woody, Spicy

Strength: Eau de Parfum Intense

Top Notes: Mediterranean Lavender, Calabria Bergamot, Balkan Oak moss

Heart Notes: Egyptian Violet Flowers, Egyptian Violet Leaves, Turkish Rose, Pipe Tobacco, Clary Sage, Saffron, Vetyver from Haiti

Base Notes: Opoponax, Myrrh, Cashmeran

Beautiful! Very feminine but not overly floral. Starting with a burst of Calibrian Bergamot, Mediterranean Lavender and Oak moss from the Balkans, the start is earthy, creating the perfect bed for the upcoming notes to rest on. This combination of notes alone lets you know that this will be a very deep and velvety violet. As the dark purple violet scent emerges, it is fumed with pipe tobacco. Along with this note arrives the violet leaf note. The leaves add to the composition a damp mossy feel. The leaves generally add an aquatic, metallic freshness that I personally love and here it is no exception. In this composition the leaves keep the prior and following notes from becoming too dark and too deep. Turkish rose, also fumed with pipe tobacco adds its lovely essence, while Haitian vetyver adds another fresh yet woody note. Herbal clary sage and spicy saffron add spicy, herbal facets to this ever blooming parfum.

Now entering this already beautiful composition are the base notes. Somalian Myrrh and Somalian Opoponax, and spicy, amber, musk aroma of cashmeran. The olfactory joy is that every note dances around the dark velvety violet which is ever present from beginning to the very end. This is not a loud fragrance but certainly isn't a shrinking or shy violet either.

Violet Fumee is velvety, mossy, spicy woody and warm. It is long lasting, not over powering and is 100 % Lovely!

Violet Fumee may be purchased at Parfumerie Nasreen.

$330.00
3.3 oz./100 ml.

LES NOMBRES D' OR ROSE ETOILE DE HOLLAND

Mona d' Orio

Type: Amber, Floral, Spicy

Notes: Calabria Bergamot, White Peach, Heliotrope, Bulgarian and Turkish Rose, Geranium from Egypt, Clove, Patchouli, Atlas and Virginia Cedar, Vanilla, Benzoin, Amber, Baume de Perou.

" Launched as a salute to Mona d' Orio's life and work as a perfumer, Rose Etoile de Holland is the culmination of Mona's study of a special rose that climbed the walls of Maison Sainte Blanche in Cabris, France. Rose Etoile de Holland is no ordinary rose: powdery, spicy with a round, lush white peach note lifted by aldehydes and sprinkled with clove. 
   Heart notes of warm cedar, earthy patchouliwh and a sly leather note adds to the scintillating heart while a hint of powdery heliotrope conspire to create an innocent, yet joyously carnal scent.
   This parfum manages to evoke a rose at once regal, joyous and sensual, its progression from top notes to base notes gathering depth and beauty as it progresses." 

I can think of nothing to add to this description already provided by the parfum house. This eau de parfum
is nice for special occasions.

May be found at Parfumerie Nasreen.

$230.00
3.3 oz./ 100 ml.

LES NOMBRES D' OR TUBEREUSE

Mona D' Orio

Type: Floral

Notes: Pink Peppercorn, Bergamot, Tuberose Absolute from India (Twilight Tuberose), Benzoin, Casmeran, Heliotrope

Twilight Tuberose from India is fresher, greener and less heady than the tuberose usually used in parfums. 

Les Nombres D' Or Tubereuse, mists on the skin, green, fresh and a little peppery. I always love the slight peppery nasal punch from Pink Peppercorns. The green and fresh are coming from the Bergamot, and Twilight Tuberose. As this very feminine eau de parfum drifts along to the next phase, it becomes a little creamy from the Benzoin and Casmeran notes. As it moves on to the full fragrance, there is the addition of Heliotrope and there is now a milky, nutty note. All of these are swirling around an ever constant now perfected tuberose of absolute perfection. Finally a tame Tuberose, still strong but, less heady and "friendlier". If you love Tuberose, you will absolutely adore Les Nombres d' Or Tubereuse!

May be purchased through Parfumerie Nasreen.

$230.00
3.3 oz./100 ml.

LES NOMBRES D' OR VETYVER

Mona d' Orio

Type: fresh, green, woody, spicy

Top Notes: Madagascar Blue Ginger, Argentinian Grapefruit, Virginia Cedar, Clary Sage Absolute

Heart Notes: Vetyver, Bourbon Vetyver

Base Notes: Tonka Bean, Labdanum, Ginger, Nutmeg

"Fresh dry, peppery hesperidic and even minty vetyver marries the best Bourbon Vetyver with notes that bring out is herbaceous fresh qualities" 

This eau de parfum is perfect for warmer weather. It starts out with fresh root scent from the Blue Ginger, citrusy notes from the Grapefruit from Argentina soon joined by the Virginian Cedarwood and minty glint from the Clary Sage Absolute. Fresh and refreshing and a bit juicy but not edible juicy. Enter the heart and it finds the earthy, slightly balmy, green, herbal freshness that was promised in the Parfum House description above as the addition of Vetyver and Bourbon Vetyver warm up to the composition. As the eau de parfum moves into its base there is a spicy side but, not too spicy. Here is where Tonka Bean, Labdanum, Ginger and Nutmeg ground this fragrance so that it cannot flit away quickly. Very, very nice. Mona d' Orio as usual was every bit the artist in this lovely Eau de Parfum.

This one is another very easy to wear fragrance for women or men. Great warm weather or any weather eau de parfum with uplifting qualities. 

May find this at Parfumerie Nasreen.

$230.00

3.3 oz./100 ml.

LES NOMBRES D' OR AMBRE

Mona D' Orio

Type: Vanilla, Amber, Powdery, Balsam

Top Notes: Ambergris, Atlas Cedar

Heart Notes: Madagascar Vanilla Absolute, Ylang-ylang

Base Notes: Tolu, Benzoin


What a delightful surprise! The notes above speak harmoniously together in Les Nombres d' Or Ambre!
The sweet woody balsam notes of the smoky ambergris and the Atlas Cedar, combined with resinouly sweet Madagascar Vanilla Absolute is just wondrous. But, look out! I never expected this. In the heart rests the surprise of soapy, powdery Ylang-ylang. As the base warms up on the skin, Tolu with its strong notes of vanilla and cinnamon and Benzoin complete this composition.

Les Nombres d' Or Ambre is a very easy going Eau de Parfum. Wear it everywhere, anytime, all the time. It is easily a Signature Parfum.

$230.00
3.3 oz./ 100 ml.

May be purchased at or through Parfumerie Nasreen.

LES NOMBRES D'OR CUIR

Mona d'Orio

Spicy/Woody/Leather

Notes: Cardamom, Absinthe, Leather, Cade, Resinoid, Opopanax, Castoreum

Cuir is French for Leather.

This eau de parfum has a smoky, spicy cardamom start which is lovely. Moments later curls of Absinthe intertwines with the spicy start making it quite lovely. Minutes in, opopanax, leather and resinoids make their notes known and the roughness of the spicy smoke smooths and settles down into a balmy leathery dream. Just to give more life to the leather, castoreum warms up for the finished creation to be complete with an animalic leather note that brings it to life. This eau de parfum is a wonderful slightly spicy, leather. If you are looking for a leather that is not sharp but doesn't wreak of a barn yard, Les Nombres d' Or Cuir may be just what you've been searching for. To my nose, this is a very fine leather. 

May find it at Parfumerie Nasreen

$230.00 

3.3 oz./ 100 ml.