Or du Sérail was inspired by Delacroix -- specifically the excess of his painting: overripe fruit, velvet, tobacco smoke, gold. Naomi Goodsir took that atmosphere and built a fragrance around it. Rich, gourmand and unapologetic.

It opens with a burst of apple, mango and sweet orange -- ripe to the point of almost too much. Rum, artemisia and incense move through the heart, smoky and lush. The base is where it earns its depth: labdanum, beeswax, honey, tobacco, amber and vanilla pulling everything down into something warm, complex and long on the skin.

This is a fragrance that makes itself known. Generous projection, exceptional longevity.

Head Notes: Apple, Red Berries, Mango, Sweet Orange Heart Notes: Rum, Artemisia, Sage, Coconut, Geranium, Ylang Ylang, Mate Base Notes: Labdanum, Beeswax, Honey, Tobacco, Amber, Oak, Cedar, Musk, Vanilla

Perfumer: Bertrand Duchaufour (2014). Genderless. Eau de Parfum. 50ml.

Naomi Goodsir is a Sydney-born, Paris-based designer who moved into fragrance with the same eye she brought to millinery -- obsessive, precise, and unconcerned with convention. Each scent in the range is built around an image or a memory strong enough to anchor a composition. We stock Naomi Goodsir because she is one of the few perfumers working at this level with a direct line back to Australia, and because the range is genuinely hard to find outside of specialist fragrance retail.