Chapter II · The Longing
Lettre Non Envoyée
The Unsent Letter
Everything you meant to say, sealed and kept.
Reserve — $295
Complimentary samples and gift wrapping with every flacon.
- The Moment
- Past midnight, by lamplight
- The Place
- Pacific Heights, San Francisco — 1931
- Family
- Woody · Ink
- Perfumer
- Élodie Marchand
The Story
Seven drafts lie crumpled beside the inkwell. The eighth is perfect, folded, sealed in red wax — and placed in a drawer, never to be posted.
An accord of wet ink and violet leaf over papyrus and dry cedar. Intimate, quiet, the scent of words held close to the chest.
Olfactory Pyramid
- Top
- Violet leaf · Black ink accord · Cardamom
- Heart
- Papyrus · Iris root · Sealing wax accord
- Base
- Atlas cedar · Ambrette seed · Vetiver
