Musc Couture by Jacques Fath

La Maison Jacques Fath is preparing to launch Musc Couture, a fifth member of the Fath Essentials collection, which is entirely created in cooperation with the perfumer Jean-Christophe Herault.

I admire the work of creative director Rania Naim for Jacques Fath and the utterly French, neoclassical profile the restored brand has presented in the last several years.

Musc Couture pays a tribute to Jacques Fath’s haute couture legacy and his long-remembered personality:

“It is said that Jacques Fath could enlighten a room when he entered.”, said Jean-Christophe Herault.

Musk Couture’s fruity-floral-musk profile nods to the present and the past:

The opening is audacious: Creative Director Rania Naim proposed an accord of dried red bananas, which are sweeter, and with raspberry-like facets, and cherries.

“Remember what I said: on the next Esxence, bananas will be everywhere…”, sad Mr. Herault with the smile, and even on this Esxence I noticed the tendency...

While leaning gorumand, the contemporary fruity opening is soon tempered with a refined interplay of musks and florals.

The heart is clean, mildly soapy and powdery: as a nod to the Jacques Fath tradition, Herault created a soapy accord that is based, as I believe, on transparent and difusive neroli.

I call it bright neroli, because its clean, white-floral olfactive profile evokes lightnes of being and the warm sunny days. However Jacques Fath named the acord as “clean linen”, which also smells true and consistent with well-explored sun-dried white linen motif.

The central musky accord has powdery facets, further enriched with iris concrete LMR and sensual and enveloping CO2 extracted vanilla.

I kept smelling my wrist during the Esxence Day 2: when applied to skin, Musk Couture shows interesting twists and versatile character.

It kept playing, and I kept smiling.