lumen_esce
A bright, green-edged violet built around Firmenich's captive molecule Violettyne®, playing on violet as both a flower and a frequency of light.
Perfumer: Frank Voelkl
lumen_esce brings together violet as a flower and as a colour of light. Frank Voelkl works around the bright, green character of Violettyne, and the name refers to the lumen, a unit of light measurement.
Perfumer Frank Voelkl worked from a double meaning: violet as a color, and violet as the highest frequency of visible light. The name itself comes from the lumen, the unit that measures light. Violettyne® is described as an unusually bright violet with a metallic vibration and a fluorescent green edge, and a cool, cucumber-like essence of violet leaves sharpens that greenness.
The listed notes are Violettyne® (violet leaves), freesia, jasmine sambac, Bulgarian rose, bergamot and Patchouli Prisma. The flowers lend a soft, powdery springtime roundness, bergamot adds lift, and Patchouli Prisma, a natural material distilled and reassembled to bring out its woody warmth, gives the shining bouquet a darker edge.
It suits someone who wants violet that reads clear and cool rather than sugary.
