LES LARMES DE TIRESIAS
A contemporary reading of the myth of Tiresias, turned into a woman for seven years, told through incense milk, a madérisée fig and a cold, snakeskin-like leather.
Perfumer: Alexandra Carlin
Tiresias is the mythic figure turned from a man into a woman for seven years, then back into a man. Les Larmes de Tirésias is Roos & Roos's contemporary interpretation of that myth, conceived as a perfume holding both the feminine and the masculine. Alexandra Carlin is the perfumer.
The tears of the title are a metaphor for perfume itself, which the brand calls a Greek sap that scents the world.
Pink berries and juniper open onto an incense milk accord, fig and orange blossom. The brand's word for the fig is madérisée, describing an aged, wine-like impression of the fruit.
The base is vanilla, leather and amber woods. The leather is a cold accord meant to recall snakeskin, set beside the sweetness of vanilla.
