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the pet name of the doyenne
Isabelle d'Ornano, at over eighty years old, still leads the perfume branch of the family business Sisley.
What a woman to preside over this family since the death of her husband Hubert in 2015.
The Corsican branch of the family "supplied" French kings and emperors with numerous brave marshals for centuries.
Even though not every French marshal could become King of Sweden, as Jean Baptiste Bernadotte did at the time. As King Charles XIV of Sweden, he and his legendary wife Desirée, the silk merchant's daughter from Marseille, born Clary, founded the royal house that is still so popular today.
I love Crown Princess Victoria with her splendid family.
No one from the d'Ornano family became king; but Philippe-Antoine d'Ornano married Maria Walewska in 1816. The beautiful Polish woman had turned Napoleon I's head in such a way that she was his preferred mistress for a long time. And as this she had to be provided of course.
This marriage, her second, lasted only from 1816-17.
These were the ancestors of Hubert d'Ornano, who with his Polish wife Isabelle Potocka, daughter of Count Joseph Potocki and Princess Christine Radziwill ("small - small" does not exist in this family!)
1976 bought the small cosmetics company Sisley and made it in the meantime to a world concern.
"Beauty to be shared", the title of Hubert d'Ornano's book, is in the blood of this family.
Already in 1935, his father Guilaume d'Ornano takes over the legacy of the legendary Francois Coty.
He and three other shareholders call the company founded at that time from this legacy "Lanscome", after an idyllically located country house of the family d'Ornano.
However, a Parisian pharmacist claims this name for himself and so "Lanscome" eventually becomes "Lancôme".
More details on diesre great family and also other interesting biographies of great women can be found in the beautiful book "Perfume - Women in the World of Fragrances" by Bettina de Cosnac - also she a countess.
She has looked at the history of women as perfumers. For too long, this was a purely male domain, which is only slowly being conquered by women. But all the more successful for it.
For anyone interested in perfume, and who is not there here, it is worth reading this book and perhaps also, like me, to enjoy the many beautiful photos.
Had I not shortly after the arrival of the beautiful volume a whole mug of latte also poured over this book, it would be even more beautiful!
Now it is a real "defective copy"!
But now finally to the fragrance - to "Izia": Izia is the pet name of Isabelle d'Ornano.
The scent of a rose has done it to her particularly: a climbing rose that blooms only two weeks in May. But spreads all the heavier perfume and thus displaces every other fragrance.
This unique rose she brought from Poland as a reminder of the rose gardens of the former family castle.
The name of this rose, despite intensive research among rose growers, is not known.
Thus, the scent of this "Rose d'Ornano" is for Isabelle the embodiment of the rose from her favorite book "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - see there.
For more than twenty years, with interruptions, different "noses" worked again and again on the fragrance "Izia", which this rose essence carries.
The Countess wore this fragrance in the various stages of development itself; but agreed with her husband Hubert somewhat disappointed that its time was not yet ripe.
Forgotten he was never; he had dug deep into her nose and heart.
But it was 2017 until "Izia" finally hit the market. Launched by a surreal, daring poster showing Isabelle's niece Sonia as an elfin girl in a golden moon: in her hands, of course, the "Izia" flacon: this one signed by Isabelle herself.
As with all Sisley fragrances, I needed some time with "Izia" until we warmed up to each other.
Only with "Soir d'Orient" I immediately managed to get over a certain "bite" in the Entrée.
Izia" also has this for me, until the radiance of the aldehydes, reinforced by aromatic pink pepper and a nice dose of bergamot (whose color does not reveal itself to my sense of smell) develops very vividly.
Perhaps the currently prevailing summer heat also plays a role that this fragrance can finally develop properly with me and does not "stop" somewhere along the way.
A wonderful flower garden opens up to me afterwards, whereby angelica / angelica is first leading, until the "Rose d'Ornano" develops in its full fragrant splendor. Dominant it remains until the end.
The base note finally gives this fragrance composition an extremely feminine sensuality / eroticism.
Amber and musk show themselves not squeamish, the spicy cedar also does not remain in the background.
Thus develops a very special rose fragrance that will please every lover of this queen of flowers. "Izia" does not tolerate other fragrances next to it.
I too have now finally found my way to "Izia", although my "great time" with rose fragrances is over. I still love roses very much in all "degrees of maturity" and varieties on the bush, but no longer wear rose scents too often myself. We have - perhaps also age-related - lived apart.
That's good: life goes on and around every corner awaits a new adventure - especially in our so exciting fragrance world!
One of my friend's daughters is friends with a creative Sisley employee and so I am supplied with the great fragrances (even if they are not always suitable for me) and also with the wonderful "Black Rose" serum.
Here the "Black Rose", especially for stressed or stressed skin, is a real blessing and almost a miracle cure. After a short time of use, the face radiates energy and freshness again.
But that only on the sidelines.
"Izia" should be renewed after a few hours (perhaps in the course of an evening); the full aroma does not last too long with me; then weakens quite slightly to finally leave only a trace of the original scent.
The "Izia" flacon is modeled on this said rose blossom and is already a popular collector's item.
He alternates between pink and yellow, where the respective incidence of light plays a major role.
Now that "Izia" and I finally found each other, I experience here a beautiful rose fragrance, which has all the love and the lifeblood of this great woman.
A perfume that such a personality likes to wear and often itself, appeals to many women.
Because this woman is still all "woman" and thus knows our desires.
So if it comes in the near future to a rosy contact, it could well be "Izia".
Let yourself be enchanted, because love and life stories carries this great rose fragrance also still in itself:
that makes it even more valuable for us women!
What a woman to preside over this family since the death of her husband Hubert in 2015.
The Corsican branch of the family "supplied" French kings and emperors with numerous brave marshals for centuries.
Even though not every French marshal could become King of Sweden, as Jean Baptiste Bernadotte did at the time. As King Charles XIV of Sweden, he and his legendary wife Desirée, the silk merchant's daughter from Marseille, born Clary, founded the royal house that is still so popular today.
I love Crown Princess Victoria with her splendid family.
No one from the d'Ornano family became king; but Philippe-Antoine d'Ornano married Maria Walewska in 1816. The beautiful Polish woman had turned Napoleon I's head in such a way that she was his preferred mistress for a long time. And as this she had to be provided of course.
This marriage, her second, lasted only from 1816-17.
These were the ancestors of Hubert d'Ornano, who with his Polish wife Isabelle Potocka, daughter of Count Joseph Potocki and Princess Christine Radziwill ("small - small" does not exist in this family!)
1976 bought the small cosmetics company Sisley and made it in the meantime to a world concern.
"Beauty to be shared", the title of Hubert d'Ornano's book, is in the blood of this family.
Already in 1935, his father Guilaume d'Ornano takes over the legacy of the legendary Francois Coty.
He and three other shareholders call the company founded at that time from this legacy "Lanscome", after an idyllically located country house of the family d'Ornano.
However, a Parisian pharmacist claims this name for himself and so "Lanscome" eventually becomes "Lancôme".
More details on diesre great family and also other interesting biographies of great women can be found in the beautiful book "Perfume - Women in the World of Fragrances" by Bettina de Cosnac - also she a countess.
She has looked at the history of women as perfumers. For too long, this was a purely male domain, which is only slowly being conquered by women. But all the more successful for it.
For anyone interested in perfume, and who is not there here, it is worth reading this book and perhaps also, like me, to enjoy the many beautiful photos.
Had I not shortly after the arrival of the beautiful volume a whole mug of latte also poured over this book, it would be even more beautiful!
Now it is a real "defective copy"!
But now finally to the fragrance - to "Izia": Izia is the pet name of Isabelle d'Ornano.
The scent of a rose has done it to her particularly: a climbing rose that blooms only two weeks in May. But spreads all the heavier perfume and thus displaces every other fragrance.
This unique rose she brought from Poland as a reminder of the rose gardens of the former family castle.
The name of this rose, despite intensive research among rose growers, is not known.
Thus, the scent of this "Rose d'Ornano" is for Isabelle the embodiment of the rose from her favorite book "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - see there.
For more than twenty years, with interruptions, different "noses" worked again and again on the fragrance "Izia", which this rose essence carries.
The Countess wore this fragrance in the various stages of development itself; but agreed with her husband Hubert somewhat disappointed that its time was not yet ripe.
Forgotten he was never; he had dug deep into her nose and heart.
But it was 2017 until "Izia" finally hit the market. Launched by a surreal, daring poster showing Isabelle's niece Sonia as an elfin girl in a golden moon: in her hands, of course, the "Izia" flacon: this one signed by Isabelle herself.
As with all Sisley fragrances, I needed some time with "Izia" until we warmed up to each other.
Only with "Soir d'Orient" I immediately managed to get over a certain "bite" in the Entrée.
Izia" also has this for me, until the radiance of the aldehydes, reinforced by aromatic pink pepper and a nice dose of bergamot (whose color does not reveal itself to my sense of smell) develops very vividly.
Perhaps the currently prevailing summer heat also plays a role that this fragrance can finally develop properly with me and does not "stop" somewhere along the way.
A wonderful flower garden opens up to me afterwards, whereby angelica / angelica is first leading, until the "Rose d'Ornano" develops in its full fragrant splendor. Dominant it remains until the end.
The base note finally gives this fragrance composition an extremely feminine sensuality / eroticism.
Amber and musk show themselves not squeamish, the spicy cedar also does not remain in the background.
Thus develops a very special rose fragrance that will please every lover of this queen of flowers. "Izia" does not tolerate other fragrances next to it.
I too have now finally found my way to "Izia", although my "great time" with rose fragrances is over. I still love roses very much in all "degrees of maturity" and varieties on the bush, but no longer wear rose scents too often myself. We have - perhaps also age-related - lived apart.
That's good: life goes on and around every corner awaits a new adventure - especially in our so exciting fragrance world!
One of my friend's daughters is friends with a creative Sisley employee and so I am supplied with the great fragrances (even if they are not always suitable for me) and also with the wonderful "Black Rose" serum.
Here the "Black Rose", especially for stressed or stressed skin, is a real blessing and almost a miracle cure. After a short time of use, the face radiates energy and freshness again.
But that only on the sidelines.
"Izia" should be renewed after a few hours (perhaps in the course of an evening); the full aroma does not last too long with me; then weakens quite slightly to finally leave only a trace of the original scent.
The "Izia" flacon is modeled on this said rose blossom and is already a popular collector's item.
He alternates between pink and yellow, where the respective incidence of light plays a major role.
Now that "Izia" and I finally found each other, I experience here a beautiful rose fragrance, which has all the love and the lifeblood of this great woman.
A perfume that such a personality likes to wear and often itself, appeals to many women.
Because this woman is still all "woman" and thus knows our desires.
So if it comes in the near future to a rosy contact, it could well be "Izia".
Let yourself be enchanted, because love and life stories carries this great rose fragrance also still in itself:
that makes it even more valuable for us women!
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