PERFUME INGREDIENTS in Bisou

BISOU believes every perfume should make you feel as beautiful as you are. That is why we take the most beautiful ingredient there is, flowers, that represent the hearts of some of our perfumes.

Our fragrances use the most natural ingredients and we always keep track of where they come from. Made from ingredients that are organically and responsibly sourced, Bisou aims to collect the most beautiful flowers as secret ingredients from Mediterranean Europe.

Bisou always strives to awaken your senses with natural powers.

What you’re in effect smelling in the scents of Bisou are these very flowers, pure and singularly entrancing.

We present to you our floral perfume ingredients.

Fleur de Lys ("flower of the lily") FRANCE

• The most famous of all French flowers.
• The smell is refreshing and it evokes a feeling of joy and grace.
• This flower evokes lush, exotic faraway lands and it represents pureness, brightness, solemnity and freedom.

MIMOSA French perfumers' secret ingredient

• Mimosa has a fresh, floral, slightly powdery, almost honeyed profile, which blends with the green scent of the stems.
• The scent has a warm, honey, iris-like, powdery airiness to it
• Aroma-therapeutically, mimosa is said to have properties that help relieve stress and depression

LAVANDER FRANCE

• “Lavander is the scent of the soul”
• An aromatic floral clean note, with green, fresh, spicy and licorice facets.
• Lavender is lightly used in ‘feminine’ scents and it turns up in plenty of ‘shared’ colognes and men’s fragrances.
• It aims to relieve stress and we ourselves became convinced of its soothingness.

LAVANDER as an aphrodisiac

• Aphrodisiac – to awaken our natural LOVE
• Herb of love
• It has a history of being associated with fidelity as well as chastity
• Lavender Aphrodisiac – Intoxicating Love Scent
• Lavender is one of the most iconic aphrodisiacs because it is sexually suggestive, and has a distinct positive impact for those who come into contact due to its aroma.

• Helichrysum (Helichrysum italicum)ITALY

  • ‘golden sun of Italy’
  • one of the most fragrant plants on the world
  • Helichrysum Italicum blossoms during the summer months
  • Grows on dry, rocky or sandy ground around the Mediterranean
  • A sweet and dry herbaceous note, reminiscent of hay, tobacco, and honey
  • The smell is warm, rich and buttery, with green notes of wood, spices and herbs
  • It is a core fragrance material in Bisou perfumery
  

Helichrysum / Lavander

• In Bisou we are constantly striving for our own perfume scents to be inimitable, these two flowers are blended to personalize your perfume experience.
• Our favorite ingredients in Bisou, here are fantastically combined to create the amazing scent which you will immediately fall in love with. This blend just works.
• Warm, herbal, woodsy yet sweet at the same time, a pure and premium experience for your senses.

ORMEA (Orienpet Hybrid Lily Bulb) ITALY

• Named after a small town in the San Bartolomeo region in Northern Italy. The scent is spicy, sweet and musky. It has the air of a gracefully forceful flower, and the presence of gorgeous blooms. Like stepping off a plane into a tropical paradise, the air fills with honeyed smells.

“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.”
-Helen Keller

ORRIS (root) ITALY

• Orris is the root of the sweet Iris flower
• The world’s rarest perfume ingredient
• It has a floral trace and a warm, creamy, earthy quality that elicits a powdery effect to a scent
• Perfumes are derived from countless natural materials – woods and mosses, resins and balsams, grasses and spices, like a melody is composed of many notes, that can be arranged into infinite orders, it is entirely up to the composer to create magic.

ROSE (Rosa gallica, centifollia, damascena) ITALY

• The king of flowers, lemony fresh with various nuances of powder, wood notes. Fruity, feminine, clean, and intensely romantic. They smell sweet or spicy like cloves, some can even pick up the subtle citrusy scent.

IRIS PADILLA - Iridaceae CROATIA

• Native of the Dalmatia region in Croatia
• This scent is distinctly floral and powdery yet woody at the same time.
• Iris pallida is a flower of an elegant, timeless silhouette, whose long, slender and soft blue petals have no scent, but a fragrance treasure hides in the darkness of its roots.