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.
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.