Kupaloke La Fleur by Livvy 2018

The wind softly brushes over cool sand, humming gentle dust of spicy cinnamon, she dances a shimmering white garland to a distant instrument made of nut shells with strings of roots. She twirls in bittersweet petals of tuberoses on leather ribbons, which glow on the ground like the smoke of sandalwood. In a hall breeze, a ukulele blows. 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 primarily uses natural raw materials for her rather gentle, 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) has recently been reformulated into a mixed-media fragrance, with vodka and cognac in the base replaced by leather, hedione, and musk. The result is a delicate, initially bitter-spicy floral scent (hedione) with notes of cinnamon and light citrus aromas, which soon unfolds into a wonderfully bitter-sweet, silky, slightly rubbery-fresh tuberose that already carries wild leathery-smoky nuances within it, which become somewhat more pronounced in the course of time with the nutty-earthy and woody-smoky aromas of the nagarmotha root, only to then fade away after a few hours.