Izia La Nuit Sisley 2021

Currants and roses! I can hardly think of a combination that is more summery than this - provided you imagine a Central European summer, in Germany or, as in my case, in Austria. A garden, infinitely large for an eight-year-old, with constantly new secrets, hidden corners, hidden passages, with trees so huge that there is enough shade underneath to bear the July heat, with daisies, with a white picket fence that suggests safety and protection, boundaries within which you can completely indulge in the ever new discoveries, the many different flowers, the small insects and the whole, full summer pleasure. And in front of this fence: currant bushes, gigantic, with plump red berries, and in between, fully blossomed roses that have not yet succumbed to the heat, because this childhood dream tells of days long gone. Snacking on the rather sour berries, the pleasure of brushing them off the panicles, sticking your nose in a cool, velvety-soft rose... and then lying completely relaxed on the checkered blanket in the middle of the grass, the large piece of sweet watermelon, biting into the middle of the crescent-shaped slice with relish, the buzzing of bees, the fluttering of lemon butterflies... what a paradise, a garden day in midsummer in the Vienna Woods.
I like to think back to that time, and I always do when I wear Izia la Nuit. I'm immediately back in my mother's friend's garden, enjoying those long, bright days full of leisure and lightness. Izia La Nuit makes it easy for me: the juicy, fruity blackcurrant at the beginning, which allows the full, dark rose to shimmer through after a few minutes, from then on dancing a round dance together with it in perfect harmony, immediately makes me think of the scent of that garden, in which blackcurrants and roses alternated. A wonderful perfume that presents an extraordinarily beautiful composition. What I particularly like is that the autumnal notes of labdanum and patchouli, which gently come through after a while, take away the purely fruity sweetness of the fragrance and ground it in the truest sense of the word, making it mature. For me, it is very pleasing that patchouli is not too strong, not used too characteristically, which is often too much for me. Here, it is wonderfully subtly interwoven, but clearly distinguishes the fragrance from a gourmand. Overall, an incredibly beautiful, cheerful, full and elegant fragrance that I don't necessarily associate with the night, but wouldn't really classify as summer either, the earthy notes prevent that. It's the perfect fall fragrance that evokes the sweetness of summer once again, but also doesn't hide the fact that everything beautiful is fleeting, that the bright days are ending and the time of harvest is beginning. Pantha rei - perfectly embodied in Izia La Nuit.