Opponax: fun to say, fun to smell. Yin launches with this spicy-sweet resin, twinned with the fruity-booziness of davana. Labdanum and benzoin keep it cuddly.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
It suits a close, low-lit setting where the air is still and the scent can unfold slowly on skin. The effect is intimate rather than loud: a soft, spicy sweetness that feels polished, slightly mysterious and very near the body.
How to wear
Best in cool weather or evening temperatures, when its resins and tonka can bloom without turning heavy. Apply lightly to the chest, neck or scarf; one to three sprays are enough to keep the powdery amber trail warm, smooth and contained.
Who it’s for
For those who like resinous, spicy-woody perfumes with a plush, slightly powdery finish. It will appeal to wearers drawn to amber warmth, gentle sweetness and a sensual, cocooning texture rather than sharp freshness.
Release year
2018
The nose
Sylvie Jourdet is known for composing with a clear, tactile sense of texture, often favouring natural materials and nuanced contrasts over loud effects. For this fragrance, she shapes a 100% natural amber-spice accord around yin’s softer, more enveloping side, letting resin, spice and sweetness blur into one another rather than separate sharply. Her work here sits comfortably within a modern niche approach that values material quality and emotional atmosphere. The result is less about sparkle than about depth: a fragrance that feels plush, shadowed and intimate, with the cool-warm tension that gives the composition its character.
Collaborators
Gérald Ghislain, the founder and creative force behind Histoires de Parfums, shaped the concept of the This is Not a Blue Bottle series and its visual provocation, using the idea of yin and yang to frame the fragrance as part of a deliberate sensory contrast. His role was conceptual rather than formulaic, setting the brief and the philosophical direction for the composition.
Histoires de Parfums’s story
Histoires de Parfums was built as an olfactive library: a house that turns perfumes into narratives about characters, years, poems and music. Founded by Gérald Ghislain, it favours a storytelling approach rooted in French haute parfumerie and carefully chosen materials.
This is Not a Blue Bottle 1/.4 – Yin’s concept
This is Not a Blue Bottle 1/.4 – Yin belongs to Histoires de Parfums’ conceptual This is Not a Blue Bottle series, a line that plays with contrast and abstraction. Yin leans into resinous warmth and spice, with oppoponax and davana opening into a softer, more enveloping amber-benzoin base.
Extra info
The name Yin points to the softer, more enveloping side of the composition. Oppoponax is the opening resin, and the brand frames the line as a playful, conceptual response to the idea of a blue bottle.
Opponax: fun to say, fun to smell. Yin launches with this spicy-sweet resin, twinned with the fruity-booziness of davana. Labdanum and benzoin keep it cuddly.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
It suits a close, low-lit setting where the air is still and the scent can unfold slowly on skin. The effect is intimate rather than loud: a soft, spicy sweetness that feels polished, slightly mysterious and very near the body.
How to wear
Best in cool weather or evening temperatures, when its resins and tonka can bloom without turning heavy. Apply lightly to the chest, neck or scarf; one to three sprays are enough to keep the powdery amber trail warm, smooth and contained.
Who it’s for
For those who like resinous, spicy-woody perfumes with a plush, slightly powdery finish. It will appeal to wearers drawn to amber warmth, gentle sweetness and a sensual, cocooning texture rather than sharp freshness.
Release year
2018
The nose
Sylvie Jourdet is known for composing with a clear, tactile sense of texture, often favouring natural materials and nuanced contrasts over loud effects. For this fragrance, she shapes a 100% natural amber-spice accord around yin’s softer, more enveloping side, letting resin, spice and sweetness blur into one another rather than separate sharply. Her work here sits comfortably within a modern niche approach that values material quality and emotional atmosphere. The result is less about sparkle than about depth: a fragrance that feels plush, shadowed and intimate, with the cool-warm tension that gives the composition its character.
Collaborators
Gérald Ghislain, the founder and creative force behind Histoires de Parfums, shaped the concept of the This is Not a Blue Bottle series and its visual provocation, using the idea of yin and yang to frame the fragrance as part of a deliberate sensory contrast. His role was conceptual rather than formulaic, setting the brief and the philosophical direction for the composition.
Histoires de Parfums’s story
Histoires de Parfums was built as an olfactive library: a house that turns perfumes into narratives about characters, years, poems and music. Founded by Gérald Ghislain, it favours a storytelling approach rooted in French haute parfumerie and carefully chosen materials.
This is Not a Blue Bottle 1/.4 – Yin’s concept
This is Not a Blue Bottle 1/.4 – Yin belongs to Histoires de Parfums’ conceptual This is Not a Blue Bottle series, a line that plays with contrast and abstraction. Yin leans into resinous warmth and spice, with oppoponax and davana opening into a softer, more enveloping amber-benzoin base.
Extra info
The name Yin points to the softer, more enveloping side of the composition. Oppoponax is the opening resin, and the brand frames the line as a playful, conceptual response to the idea of a blue bottle.