Cocoa Kimiya Extrait

For Cocoa Kimiya, perfumer Marie Salamagne was inspired by the French artist Pierre Soulages’ walnut stain paintings. Soulages saw light as a work material, allowing his signature black to emerge from darkness and into brightness, becoming a luminous colour. Cocoa Kimiya reverses that transition, with a rum fudge opening shadowing into cardamom, then blackening into cocoa. “Kimiya” comes from the Arabic word for alchemy, which is much in evidence in the transformative magic of this extrait.