Under My Skin Francesca Bianchi 2017

Francesca Bianchi's fragrances were (and are) for me the ticket to a new world.

A year ago, in the middle of a dreary Corona autumn, I ordered a Discovery set by a happy impulse...and was never quite the same after the first sniff of these olfactory masterpieces.
Sounds pathetic? :) Maybe! But Francescas fragrances trigger now just that in me - great emotions.

I call her, which of course I have never met in my life, "Francesca" as if we were good acquaintances. Because her creations awaken in me the feeling that behind it is a person who shares my view of the world and who at the same time can still teach me a lot in this regard.

Who deals with the dark sides of life, even welcomes them and celebrates life at the same time with a lot of dedication.
Which is not afraid to show itself deeply human - and just thereby radiates an incredible strength.
Who takes pleasure in sharpening her intellect and considers sensuality an essential part of life.
Who does not confuse vulnerability with weakness.
Who is looking for experiences that do not remain on the surface but go under the skin. Under my Skin...

"Under my Skin" is the most sincere fragrance I have ever smelled.
Sincerely human.

It doesn't smell like a perfume to me, it smells like a beloved body. Both one's own and that of another person.
He radiates sensuality, but not in the sense of brute eroticism - but in the sense of a moment full of peace and intimacy. Alone or in pairs.
A moment in which the world around you does not exist and you feel safe enough to discard all masks.
The quiet lying next to each other afterwards.
The tender feeling into one's own body.
The acceptance that this body has flaws and certainly does not correspond in all points to the ideals of a permanently self-optimizing society. That he looks different, feels and smells just different.
Warm, familiar,

This small olfactory masterpiece reminds me in its complexity a concert where you sit back and enjoy the goosebumps moments that arise from the interplay of different voices and instruments.

In the case of "Under my Skin", I would say that the central "instrument" is the animalic, which arises from a combination of castoreum and iris butter, and is softened by lavender, honey, Peru and Tolu balsam. Rarely have deeply erotic and softly clean notes complemented each other so beautifully for my nose.

The durability of this extract is absolutely unbeatable on my skin.
When I apply the fragrance to my pulse points in the morning, I can still smell it very clearly late in the evening. And when I spray it in the evening, it accompanies me into a night full of promise. Promises of experiences that really touch you in every sense of the word. That go under the skin.

Under my Skin.