1. Mumtaz Fleur de Soie flacon, front view
  2. Mumtaz Fleur de Soie flacon, three-quarter angle
  3. Mumtaz Fleur de Soie cap and extrait, macro detail
  4. Mumtaz Fleur de Soie flacon beside its presentation box
  5. Mumtaz Fleur de Soie flacon, lifestyle composition

The Composition

One bloom, wrapped in warm silk.

This bouquet is built, not gathered. It is assembled in three movements - a radiance struck across the opening, a white flower worked until it reads as warm petal, a resin laid beneath to gild the trail. Nothing here is poured ready-made.

  1. Movement I

    Orange Blossom

    Néroli · Nabeul

    The bitter-orange tree flowers for a few weeks each spring, and the blossoms are gathered by hand at dawn while the petals are still cool. Roughly one tonne of flowers yields a single kilo of néroli. A measured radiance struck across the opening, it gives Fleur de Soie its sunlit, honeyed lift before the heart unfolds.

  2. Movement II

    Tuberose

    Hand-picked · Grasse

    The most opulent of the white flowers, tuberose keeps breathing its scent for hours after it is cut, so the blooms are picked by hand at night and processed at once. Worked until it reads as warm petal rather than narcotic, it carries the whole composition - creamy, full and luminous at the heart.

  3. Movement III

    Benzoin

    Resin tears · Luang Prabang

    Tapped by hand from the wounded bark of the styrax tree, benzoin weeps a balsamic resin that is cured into amber tears smelling of vanilla and warm wood. Macerated slowly and laid beneath the flowers, it gilds the trail - a soft, resinous floor that holds the bouquet close without ever turning heavy.