ETAT LIBRE D'ORANGE Soul of My Soul EDP 100 ml “The perfume is the soul, the soul is the perfume”. In One Thousand and One Nights there is a wonderful expression to address the person you love: “Soul of my Soul”. This phrase expresses how empty life would be without that person. "I remember the warm voice of Aladdin croaking in a 45 rpm on a record player in 1977. He spoke to Princess Badr al-budūr calling her “My princess, soul of my soul”. At the time I was seven years old and I asked my mother the meaning of soul, she replied: “There is no single definition, it is an invisible presence that connects us to the divine, a bit like the trail of vanilla that Jicky perfume leaves in the air and that your nose continues to search for. The soul travels towards infinity in space and time and connects us to the Whole. It is a fragment of what is beautiful and perfect in each of us, which will take us back to heaven and remain with people on earth. The perfume makes the presence of this fragment eternal and the soul proceeds in the same way”. A few years later, rereading The Thousand and One Nights, I discovered sapphism, the art of women loving each other, the eunuchs who appeared in the gynaeceums, the conquering sodomites, the disturbing ephebes. I learned that the relationship with the body means nothing without the relationship with the soul, I understood that sensuality could become an excellent substitute for the soul and that holding each other tightly could be an innovative way to instill in each person a drop of the white and cosmic soul that floated in the primordial ocean before the creation of the world… We imagined a perfume that speaks of the Persian god of fire and the Hindu deities, of the cult of offerings and of Mesopotamia, of milk and clarified butter to honor the deities and to remember with a trail that permeates the air the white foam of the soul that originates from the Whole. Here the perfume is the soul, the soul is the perfume." A creamy explosion where musks mix with iris butter and release powerful scents of vanilla that fade into a tonka bean and benzoin accord. Always faithful to musk. EDP 100 ml