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

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

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

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