Claude Montana Montana 2014

Claude Montana embodies for me a warm, nurturing, receptive, self-assured, and mysterious femininity that today almost resembles a kind of myth or deity from a long-gone era. A woman who needs to prove nothing, only to be. Yet the longing for her seems great, as one can see how she is often only sought after or imitated. In countless videos, tutorials, and coaching sessions, one is taught how femininity works.

The warmth is rooted in the woods and balsams that hold the floral notes in dignified balance. This gives the perfume its understated and stylish elegance. No staging, no childish play, but a woman who naturally embraces her sensual, wild, delicate, and at the same time royal femininity.
Like expensive peach body lotion on luxurious skin, enveloped in silk and the finest stockings.

A scent like the golden light and deep shadows of sensual 90s photoshoots. Those images that I love to look at, where women gazed into the camera with a raw, surrendering look. Delicate and vulnerable, yet therein lay their strength. It takes courage and inner strength to share such a vulnerable part of one's soul with the world. This form of strength and vulnerability cannot be faked - it comes from within. Claude Montana reminds me exactly of the shoots and images from that time.
Of the unfinished, the unfiltered. I often search for a kind of truth in these expressions on the faces of these beautiful women. Claude Montana brings me a little closer to that.