Thursday, October 31, 2013

Posted by Ridwan Lawal |
Paul Smith presents his latest olfactory pair named Portrait, made as his most intimate and personal fragrances yet. Portrait for Women and Portrait for Menscents are inspired by memories, travels and photographs. They emerged out of collaboration with French model and fragrance expert Barnabe Fillion.
"A portrait is an attempt to capture the likeness of a person, to capture a moment."

Portrait for Women is a floral-green fragrance, light, fresh and feminine. Starting fresh and fruity, it later becomes very powdery and musky. Top notes are bergamot, black tea, cardamom, black currant and peach. Its heart captures wild rose garden together with a jasmine note, embedded on myrrh and musk that give elegance and depth of this perfume.

Top notes: bergamot, black tea, cardamom, black currant, peach
Heart: wild rose, jasmine
Base: myrrh, musk


Portrait for Men is a woody-spicy scent with a musky finish. It was developed by model and perfumer Barnabe Fillion. It opens with notes of bergamot, cardamom and pink pepper with geranium and black currant blossom in the heart and the base of cedar, tolu balsam, myrrh and labdanum.
Top notes: bergamot, cardamom, pink pepper
Heart: geranium, black currant blossom
Base: cedar, tolu balsam, myrrh, labdanum


The bottle design is described as elegant and timeless, inspired by the ultimate traveler’s accessories—a flask and a camera. The men’s bottle combines silver metal and smoky gray glass, while the women’s offers golden metal and transparent glass that reveals gentle rosy fluid.

Baptiste Radufe and Karlin Caune are the models of the advertisement campaign, shot by photographer Annemarieke Van Drimmelen.

The fragrances are available in quantities of 40 and 80 ml; masculine as Eau de Toilette and feminine as Eau de Parfum.

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