Arching above the entrance of formidable brownstones or flourishing in secret backyard oases, here are the flowers of Harlem. Follow the intriguing whiff of angelica seeds and saffron to the intoxicating beauty of damascene roses and violet, that reveals a heart of ebony wood and leather.

Top Notes Angelica seeds, Saffron

Heart Notes Violet, Damascena rose

Base Notes Ebony woods, Wild leather

Olfactive Family Amber Floral

Persephone had been warned there was a price to pay for her otherworldly love, so when she returns to the living, she brings a gift: springtime, a bracing gust of Sicilian lemon and acai that blossoms into raspberry blossom, pink magnolia and violet leaf followed by the sensuality of sandalwood, skin musks and crisp amber.

Top Notes Sicilian Lemon, Acai

Heart Notes Raspberry, Magnolia, Violet

Base Notes Sandalwood, Musk, Amber

Olfactive Family Floral Woody

What would you do if it were your last night on earth? For Johann Friedrich Struensee, doomed doctor of the Danish court, it meant a picnic with his love and their friends on the last night before his death. As always, champagne and figs, his favorite fruit, were on the menu, as dusk turned the sky purple. Joy and tears, sorrow and laughter, a bitter sweet cocktail that lives on in this Purple Fig.

Top Notes Sichuan Pepper, Angelica Seeds

Heart Notes Galbanum, Green Fig, Jasmine Absolue

Base Notes Vetiver, Cashmere Woods

Olfactive Family Aromatic

The right place at the right time, that summer in the Swedish capital: a serene and intoxicating time in a city that was to become a place of congregation and celebration. Crisp lemon, warm almond, an uplifting spray of geranium with the tang of patchouli and a drift of faraway green fields floating on a summer breeze – the ABBA era.

Top Notes Black Pepper, Lemon, Almond

Heart Notes Geranium, Rosemary

Base Notes Patchouli, Black Amber, Moss

Olfactive Family Chypre Floral

Berlin, a city that is alive with the same kinetic, magnetic energy that attracted David Bowie for a few formative, recuperative and prolific years in the Seventies. Perpetual creative movement embodied in a bold collision of blueberry, lemon, bamboo, green wild orris and Haitian vetiver.

Top Notes Blueberry, Lemon

Heart Notes Vanilla, Green Wild Orris

Base Notes Vanilla, Sandalwood, Vetiver

Olfactive Family Woody Amber

Moscow in the Eighties. An anonymous door, a coded knock, a distant beat. A rush of scent – black pepper, saffron, leather and Sicilian tangerine – a smoky, spicy promise of what is still hidden that captures the effervescent thrill of secret parties, then and tomorrow.

Top Notes Sicilian tangerine, Cassis, Black pepper

Heart Notes Carrot seeds, Saffron, Black lotus

Base Notes Leather, Wood smoke, Tonka beans

Olfactive Family Leather