Les Sables Roses is Louis Vuitton’s latest addition to their line of exceptional fragrances. The perfume’s name which translates to ‘the pink sands’ was developed to pay homage to Middle Eastern scents.
Master Perfumer Jacques Cavallier Belletrud drew on thousand of years of Middle Eastern history to develop a scent that is thoroughly unique, yet pays homage to the region’s beauty and perfume making saga.
With respect to the desert’s majestic nature, Louis Vuitton has stated that the scent of Les Sables Roses is meant to awaken “the spellbinding moment in time at daybreak when the first rays of sunlight bathe the landscape in a shade of rose that blends dunes and sky. Between night and day, shadow and light, cold and heat, this instant reconciles contrasts.”
With notes of rose, oud, and ambergris, this perfume is genuinely reminiscent of both Arab and Persian fragrance making. This extraordinary contrast was accomplished through the use of outstanding earthly substances, namley, Ambergis, one of the rarest substances on the planet, which is employed to enhance the composition of the rose’s freshness and the oud’s woody aroma.
A time honored Middle Eastern tradition is the concept of layering different fragrances, in this respect Les Sables Roses does not disappoint. One unique opportunity is combining this scent with Louis Vuitton’s Ombre Nomade fragrance. All said, the finished product goes beyond the sum of the perfume’s ingredients and also the talent of Master Perfumer Jacques Cavallier Belletrud, to create a fragrance that is truly awe inspiring and quite essentially magical.
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