Aedes de Venustas Grenadille d'Afrique Eau de Parfum 100ml is a unisex aromatic fragrance. A tribute to the ancient African Blackwood and its majestic home. From crackling sap to balmy resin. From smoky wood to sunlit stone. From purple twilight to inky night. Grenadille d'Afrique Eau de Parfum 100ml expresses not only the name of the tree, but also the primeval landscape in which it grows. It begins with the African Blackwood tree, a rare and expensive member of the rosewood family whose Latin name, Dalbergia melanoxylon, translates to "black wood." The title belies the variety of its wood, which ranges from deep purple to brownish black and is also known as granadilla. The ancient Egyptians, who called it h'bny, carved precious furniture from its heartwood. Alberto Morillas transforms it into an olfactory sculpture of great elegance. Flowing from twigs to roots with an aromatic and juniper-scented sap, the mythical African Blackwood plant is built around a "trunk" of Haitian vetiver. With its complex facets of wood, smoke, earth and flint, it is the vertical axis that unites the vegetal, animal and mineral notes of the fragrance. At first breath, it is difficult to tell whether the scent places us at dusk or dawn. Sparkling bergamot captures the last rays of the sun, while a purple haze of lavender and violet spreads its dusty moonlight over the savannah grasslands. Later in its life, vanilla, transformed into combustible resin by a burst of amber cistus labdanum, exudes a balsamic warmth. Bleached wood, skin-soft bark and sun-warmed stone release the heat of the day into the inky night, cooled by a breeze of moss. Morillas describes his creation as "fossilized wood rubbed in a vanilla accord", a highly contrasted composition that enriches its dark heart with luminous notes. GRENADILLE D'AFRIQUE explores a new region in the perfume map, dove woods and resins meet ink and stone.
