Kupaloke La Fleur by Livvy 2018

The wind silently caresses the cool sand, humming soft dust of spicy cinnamon, she dances a dazzling white garland to a distant instrument made of nutshells with strings of roots. It spins in tuberose petals on leathery ribbons that burn up in delicate threads on the earth like the smoke of silk woods. A ukulele wafts in a reverberating plume. Ke kaikamahine me ka lei kupaloke.
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Olivia Larson founded her artisan label La Fleur by Livvy in 2013 in Colorado, USA. Inspired by the scents of her childhood in India, the self-taught perfumer mainly uses natural raw materials for her rather soft, subtle creations. "Each perfume is handcrafted in small batches. [...] Livvy now holds a certification in French Natural Perfumery from IPF, Paris, France and is also a certified Natural Perfumer by IPF (International Perfume Foundation)." she writes on her homepage.
"Kupaloke" (Hawaiian for tuberose) was recently reformulated into a mixed-media fragrance, replacing vodka and cognac in the base with leather, hedione and musk. The result is a delicate, initially tart and spicy floral fragrance (hedione) with notes of cinnamon and light citrus aromas, which soon unfolds into a wonderfully tart-sweet, silky, minimally rubbery-fresh tuberose that already carries wildly smoky nuances, which become somewhat more pronounced as it progresses with the nutty-earthy and woody-smoky aromas of nagarmotha root, only to disappear again after a few hours.