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This beautiful version of Cio Cio San Buste by MDCI with handmade stopper is a true collectors item. We will order this flask item specially for you, therefore we have a delivery lead time of 5-7 working days.
Perfumer Cécile Zarokian captured Japan in a bottle with Cio Cio San for MDCI. 
The founder of MDCI, Claude Marchal, always had a great interest in Japan, its culture, and in particular wood carvings. So when Zarakian created this perfume, Marchel immediately fell in love with this fragrance, and named it: Cio Cio San, after Madame Butterfly&#8217;s opera by Puccini. 
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Cio Cio San is a story of springtime, cherry blossoms, temples, the beautiful Japanese gardens, rustling silk, tea houses and stunning geishas&#8230; 

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A feminine, happy, romantic fruity floral with ginger and tea that give depth to the fragrance!
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The independent House of Parfums MDCI (MDCI stands for Marchal Dessins et Créations Indépendantes) founded in 2003, is reviving the French tradition of the Art of perfume and creates rare and original perfumes, presented in unique and aesthetic bottles in collaboration with master perfumers chosen for their talent. Classic and innovative.

The independent House of Parfums MDCI (MDCI stands for Marchal Dessins et Créations Indépendantes) founded in 2003, is reviving the French tradition of the Art of perfume and creates rare and original perfumes, presented in unique and aesthetic bottles in collaboration with master perfumers chosen for their talent. Classic and innovative.
Classic, as the Italian Renaissance, the seventeenth century France and the great voyages of discovery were the points of reference guiding the brand creator's work. Innovative, for offering something so contrary to the mass-produced minimalism prevailing today- small sculptures inspired by the Renaissance or the Ancient World, posed elegantly on a very refined cylindrical plinth that doubles as a bottle.

Fruity fragrances are juicy, colorful and spark joy.
Smell the sweet delights of apples, pears, strawberries and cherries... You can almost taste the sugar mangos and juicy lychees in this olfactive family!


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The citrus fragrance family is juicy, sparkling, and energizing.

Perfumes with citrus tickle your nose by its fizzy fresh top notes. These zesty fruits elevate your mood and bring a smile to your face!

Enjoy the colorful varieties of bergamot, lemon, lime, grapefruit, orange, mandarin, yuzu, cedrat, and more.

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Cecile Zarokian is an independent perfumer based in Paris. She has been working in the industry for over 15 years and started her own company in 2011. Today she has created over a hundred perfumes for various brands in the European, Middle Eastern and Latin American perfume market.

Cécile Zarokian

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Alessandro Gualtieri is a quirky Italian perfumer, also known as The Nose. His perfumes are powerful, distinctive and unique, allowing you to experience his creativity. Gualtieri doesn’t reveal the ingredients used in his creations because it's all about your own recollections!

Alessandro Gualtieri

Alexandra Monet's curiosity for fragrances led her to become a perfumer. Her nose and passion have brought her everywhere in the world. A good thing because Monet loves to discover new places as it nourishes her olfactive creativity and imagination. India for example is one of her most favorite destinations, “there you can find both the most horrible and the most extraordinary smells all at once; somber colors as well as the most vibrant and shimmering." - Monet

Alexandra Monet

Alienor Massenet

Perfumer Amandine Clerc Marie, well known for her rework of Chloé (2007), has been familiar in the world of perfumery as long as she can remember. The French perfumer designs lively, creative works of olfactive art that are never predictable. For MDCI, Marie created the romantic Peche Cardinal. A tropical floral with tuberose and peach; warm, soft and sensual. A fragrance that lingers on the skin that settles into a soft woody base of sandalwood and cedar.

Amandine Marie

Amélie Bourgeois is a rising star in the world of perfumery! With perfume master Monique Schlienger as mentor, Amélie learned the ropes of creating perfumes. Bourgeois worked at Cinquième Sens for 7 years. Together with Anne-Sophie Behaghel, she started her own independent perfume studio, Flair Paris. Bourgeois has various perfumes to her name, of which one is the elegant Laskarina from Frapin.

Amelie Bourgeois

Anne-Sophie Behaghel studied science and medicine in Paris before joining fragrance company &amp; training centre, Cinquième Sens. She learned the ropes of perfumery under the wings of Monique Schlienger and has worked at Firmenich and Symrise until she co-founded her own independent perfume studio, Flair Paris, with Amélie Bourgeois.

Anne-Sophie Behagel

Annick Menardo has been working for Firmenich since 1991. Many famous perfumes have been made by her, such as Patchouli 24 by Le Labo, Bois d'Argent by Christian Dior and Lolita Lempicka. She has completed a perfumery study and has a background in biochemistry and medicine. After her studies she worked at Créations Aromatiques, where she was mentored by Michel Almairac: a great inspiration for her earlier work.

Annick Menardo

Antonio Gardoni, architect and autodidact perfumer, has a unique avant-garde style. To quote Gardoni: "I work at night when the light doesn't adulterate the chemicals and when the smells of the day disappear to leave space to new experiments of shadows." Antonio Gardoni compares his perfumes to rooms that need to be discovered. Will you join him on a journey of discovery?

Antonio Gardoni

Arturetto Landi has traveled all over the world for his training as perfumer: from New York, Tokyo, Paris, Vienna to Dubai in 2005. In Dubai he became head perfumer for fragrance company MANE.  Landi's opulent, complex and composed fragrances are described as a grand opera for the nose.

His inspiration does not only come from his childhood on the Italian Riviera and from his father, a chef, but his inspiration also from far away places, especially the smells from Arabia.

Arturetto Landi

Bertrand Duchaufour is considered one of the leading contemporary noses.
As master perfumer, his creative process follows two fundamental principles:
First, he believes that balance is achieved through opposites attracting each other, like yin and yang.
Second, he states that nothing is lost or created; everything is transformed. His style of perfume making is distinct and versatile.
Bertrand works as independent perfumer for a number of niche perfume brands.

Bertrand Duchaufour

Perfumery runs in the DNA of Céline Ellena. Being the daughter of the perfume legend Jean-Claude Ellena, Céline mastered the skills of perfumery too. Fit for the challenge Ellena took a bold step in 2004 and successfully took over her father's position at the Different Company. She has left her signature on the brand and created favorites as Pure Eve and Oriental Lounge.

Celine Ellena

Each fragrance is a story that begins with “once upon a time” for Christine Nagel. Determined to make her dreams come true, Nagel started her prosperous career as perfumer at the age of 35. She has created numerous successful perfumes since. Nagel is interested in opposing sensations, take the sweet chypre Miss Dior Cherie, for example, or Narcisso for Her in collaboration with Francis Kurkdjian.

Prior to working for Hermès, Nigel created Une Nuit Magnetique for the Different Company, available at the Perfume Lounge.

Christine Nagel

Christophe Laudamiel is an award winning master perfumer, known for his innovative and high-end perfumes. He is the nose behind Fierce (Abercrombie &amp; Fitch), Polo Blue (Ralph Lauren) and Tom Ford, among many more.

Christophe is not only a great perfumer, but also an educator and lecturer, eager about explaining the world of perfumes to the general public.

You will find many of his creations at Perfume Lounge, such as Strangelove NYC and Humiecki &amp; Graef, and his very own brand The Zoo.

Interested to read more about Christophe Laudamiel? Click <a href="http://cms.perfumelounge.eu/scent-stories/interview-with-christophe-laudamiel/">here </a>to visit our blog!

Christophe Laudamiel

Clement Gavarry is a French perfumer living in New York since his early 20s, a city where there's constant newness and energy that inspires him for his creations.

Clement Gavarry is the fourth generation of his family to work in the perfume industry. It was his father, renowned perfumer Max Gavarry, who opened up the world of fragrances to Clement, engaging him to really get in contact with nature and all the green smells it has to offer.

Clement Gavarry

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With prestigious awards to his name and the title of Master perfumer, Dominique Ropion is one of the best known and most recognized perfumer of the 21st century. His perfumes are celebrated for their strong personalities. Relentlessly and flawlessly, Ropion perfectly balances powerful ingredients with more subtler accords. His belief: a good perfume must always appear obvious. This French perfumer elegantly embraces floral compositions with exciting twists for the Olfactive Studio. 

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Dominique Ropion

Dora Baghriche once had dreams of writing and becoming senior field reporter. That was before she fell in love with the world of perfumes.

Both her grandmothers were pastry chefs, which indulged Baghriche first fragrance memories are pine nut crème, cinnamon treats, and a waft of almonds. , which 

Dora's curiosity and fanciful mind have led her to meet many aspiring artists whose eclecticism she admires. Many of her friends are musicians, filmmakers, and actors from all walks of life.

Dora Baghriche

Dorothée Piot is the nose behind phenomenal perfumes: Amouage Memoir Woman, Lalique Noir collection, and of course, her creation for the Olfactive Studio Chambre Noire. Dorothée is based at Robertet, a fragrance house especially well-known for its expertise in natural perfumery.

Dorothee Piot

The humble and talented perfumer Émilie Coppermann believes in the power of dreams. She is a free-spirited and inspired creative who has made a name for herself in the world of perfumery.  Her creations exude a certain naturalness, a subtlety, that is versatile and elegant.
For the last 9 years she has created perfumes for The Different Company, for whom she created all the perfumes in the L'Esprit Cologne line, including the beautiful perfume Al Sahra, a soft amber with a surprising twist.

Emilie Coppermann

“I want to formulate with my hands, I want to get dirty, to touch and to smell, to really follow my nose and have a much more intimate and primitive relationship with nature." This is the motto perfumer Ernesto Collado lives by. With his honest and unusual fragrances, he creates 100% natural and unfiltered perfumes. By deliberately not filtering the fragrances they preserve their natural aspect. You can see this in small particles in the fragrances, pure nature.

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Ernesto Collado Sala elevates his love for hiking and nature into perfumes, inspired by the smells from nature only. How does a hike through Northern Spain smell like during fall, winter, spring and summer; the forest, the trees, the grass, the flowers, the salty breeze from the sea coast from miles away?

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It is Sala’s mission to capture these smells during his walks into a fragrance. With this he creates 100% natural and unfiltered perfumes. He deliberately does not filter the molecules or ingredients to preserve their natural aspect. Whereas other perfumes are clear (colored) fluid, you can see that there are small particles drifting in Ernesto Collado Sala’s perfume.

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In the series Landscape Scents he captures three places and seasons. CALA, the coast in BOSC, the summer full forest and in MUGA a spring walk along the river of the same name.

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Bravanariz means "brave nose" in Spanish. The subtitle 'smelling wild' captures exactly what the charismatic actor and perfumer Ernesto Collado does. Literally capturing the natural scents of the pristine landscape of north-eastern Spain.

Ernesto Collado Sala has captured our hearts with his charming personality and his love for storytelling.

Ernesto Collado

Euan McCall is a Scottish perfumer from Edinburg. He has created perfumes for cult brands (such as Neandertal) and now runs his own brand Jorum Studio with his partner Chloe Mullen. Their perfumes are contemporary and unique, and to quote McCall: "It is so important for us that each Jorum creation is new, original and of quality which we hope ultimately progresses the narrative - we aren’t interested in trends or trying to copy existing works. We do Jorum and hope many people enjoy what we do."

Interested to read more about Euan McCall's creative process and inspiration? You can read our full interview with Euan McCall <a href="http://cms.perfumelounge.eu/scent-stories/spotlight-on-euan-mccall/">here</a>.

Euan McCall

Francesca Bianchi's perfumes have gained a reputation for being sensual and provocative, all unusual, powerful and distinct extrait de parfums.
"I am mostly inspired by the power of what it means to be human, by the wish to connect with people’s inner life, the desire to spark an emotion in them and make them feel at home in their own bodies, offer solace, or just a quick fix for a bad day."

Click <a href="http://cms.perfumelounge.eu/scent-stories/spotlight-on-francesca-bianchi/">here</a> read more about Francesca Bianchi.

Francesca Bianchi

Francis Kurkdjian hardly needs any introduction: this famous perfumer already made a name for himself at the age of 26 when he created the international best seller Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male. The following decade, Kurkdjian worked for prestigious brands, including Dior, Elizabeth Arden, Versace, Yves Saint Laurent, alongside collaborating with private clients.

After working with big brands, Kurkdjian embraced a new opportunity and in 2009 he started his very own perfume house: Maison Francis Kurkdjian. Perfume Lounge was at the launch of this beautiful brand in Paris and was proud to introduce his brand to the Netherlands as very first.

Kurkdjian is versatile and creative. He elegantly combines two cultures of his French-Armenian heritage into fragrances with a natural richness. The collection of Maison Francis Kurkdjian is like a perfume wardrobe for different moments, emotions and moods.

Francis Kurkdjian

Francoise Caron (1949) attended perfumery school at a time when the field included very few women. Caron created Ombre Rose for Jean-Charles Brosseu in 1981 and is still considered a classic in modern day's society.

Francoise Caron

Germaine Cellier, born early 20th century in France, was a female perfumer and pioneer at the time when men dominated the perfume industry. Cellier was known for her outspoken character and her innovative mindset. Unimpressed by conventions, she created bold and groundbreaking fragrances for Robert Piguet, Balmain, Nina Richi and of course, all-time classic, Fracas (1947).

Germaine Cellier

Gérard Bertrand

The Canadian perfumer Hiram Green creates and produces artisanal fragrances made exclusively from natural ingredients. After his discovery that almost all perfumes include synthetic ingredients, it became Hiram's mission to solely create perfumes based on all-natural ingredients. He sources (sometimes extremely) precious natural ingredients from all over the world and makes his perfumes by hand. Hiram's perfumes are best described as intense, lush and expressive.

Hiram Green

Jacques Fleury

Jakub Florian Hiermann is the perfumer for Pigmentarium. Together with creative partner Thomas Ric they realized their dreams and started the Czech perfume house in 2018.
Influenced by Czech history and culture, Hiermann's inspiration can come from really anything, from a book, music, a picture, architecture or even a love affair.

Jakub Hiermann

Jean Jacques worked for 22 years at Takasago, this Japanese company is one of the largest producers of fragrances and flavorings in the world. Here he created perfumes such as Piano Santal for L'Orchestre, Gentleman Only by Givenchy.

Since 2019, Jean is the house perfumer of Caron and together with Ariane de Rothschild, who took over the company, he developed four new perfumes for this iconic perfume house; Rose Ivoire, Rose Ébène, Tabac Noir and Tubéreuse Merveilleuse.

Jean Jacques

" Perfumery as any art needs meaning, have to make sense, perfumes have to tell stories. Stories make us hope, make us dream." - Jean-Claude Ellena

In our collection we enjoy the signature perfumes of master perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena for The Different Company. Over the years Jean-Claude has numerous leading perfumes to his credit, including First for Cleef &amp; Arpels, Terre d'Hermès (2006) for Hermès and the beautiful Bois d'Iris (2000) for The Different Company.
Jean-Claude Ellena is especially loved and known for his entirely unique elegant style of sober and minimalist formulations. Achieving more with less ingredients, here we recognize his craftsmanship!

Jean-Claude Ellena

Jean Marie Faugier is currently working at Firminich. She has more than 25 years experience in fragrance creation and perfumes. It is Faugier's drive to bring pleasure and wellbeing with her perfumes. Just by smelling Vepres Siciliennes, Jean Marie takes you on an olfactive journey to a sunny afternoon in Italy

Jeanne M. Faugier

Jérôme Epinette is a senior perfumer at Robertet Fragrances in New York. He began his career in 2003 and has an extensive list of niche perfumes to his name, like Byredo, Atelier Cologne, Vilhelm and Olfactive Studio. He is known for his short and simple formulas that exude elegance and class. A man of the senses, Jérôme is also a talented cook and loves to blend different flavors with traditional French cuisine.

We are very happy to have his extraordinary perfume Flash Back in New York by Olfactive Studio at the Perfume Lounge.

Jerome Epinette

Josh Meyer enjoys the refined things in life: whiskey, literature, haute cuisine and music. After he discovered the fascinating world of niche perfumes, he taught how to make perfumes himself by spending hours in his laboratory, researching and improving them.
Josh works closely with his creative director Ashod Simonian, together they write the storyline before launching a new perfume.
Josh's laboratory is located in Portland, Oregon, America.

Josh Meyer

Julie Dunkley is a perfumer for BeauFort London, among others. She creates powerful perfumes including Iron Duke: a celebrated warlord, politician, horseman and pioneer.

In the perfume you can smell the leather of Wellington's saddle, the gunpowder of the cannons and a hint of the rum and tobacco that were plentiful aboard Wellington's ship.

Julie Dunkley

Julie Marlow developed Fathom V. for BeauFort London and won the Art and Olfaction award. This unique crisp green scent brings you back to nature.

Julie Marlow

"When creating a perfume, I think of colors, textures and places. I imagine the people who may wear the fragrance and hope that the perfume will help them conjure their own unique and personal allusions." - Liz Moores
Papillon was founded in England by perfumer Liz Moores in 2011. Her perfumes take you from sophisticated to the extraordinary. They are the ultimate expression of luxury; sensual, seductive, glamorous, and revealing. Liz uses a high concentration of pure perfume extracts in her creations and you can smell it!

Liz Moores

Lorenzo Villoresi, originally an Italian researcher in Antique Philosophy, found his calling as perfumer after his many travels to the Middle East. The rich variety of flavors and fragrances inspired him to distill essential oils, which eventually led him to creating fragrances. Villoresi won the Prix Francois Coty, the most prestigious reward of a perfumer's artistic career and he won it as the first independent perfumer!

The most beloved scent from Lorenzo is Teint de Neige. A unique, and very powdery perfume.

When in Florence, a trip to Lorenzo's atelier and perfume museum at Via de Bardi is certainly a place worthwhile visiting. He works from his family home, which has a wonderful view over the river Arno. Next to his house, Lorenzo opened a beautiful museum, including a fragrance garden full of scented plants, flowers and trees, and lots of facts about perfumes.

Lorenzo Villoresi

Luca Maffei is a young Italian independent perfumer with already more than 50 perfumed creations for mainstream and niche brands, scents for rooms and candles. He has his own company, Atelier Fragranze Milano.
His perfume Black Pepper &amp; Sandalwood by Acca Kappa and Néa by JUL ET MAD Paris received the 'Golden Pear' award in The Art and Olfaction Awards Independent Category in 2015.

Luca Maffei

Marc-Antoine Corticchiato is the founder and master perfumer of Parfum d'Empire.
Corticchiato grew up in the beautiful Mediterranean green maques of Corsica, where is his roots lie, and at the countryside of Morocco, between citrus trees where his parents cultivated land.

Out of fascination for flora, Marc-Antoine studied the secrets of scent production in aromatic plants. In quest for the best possible natural plant extracts, Corticchiato set up a production unit for essential oils in Madagaskar. And after years of laboratory research and creative work, he launched his own independent company Parfum d'Empire.

Through his perfumes, Marc-Antoine Corticchiato expresses the fleeting moments of emotion conjured by blends of the most beautiful raw materials.

Marc-Antoine Corticchiato

Mathieu Nardin

Mathilde Bijaoui is a perfumer at MANE: the first French group and one of the worldwide leaders of the Fragrance and Flavour industry. She was inspired by perfume at a young age during a visit to the Osmothèque. Now, she is known for a number of famous fragrances such as Etat Libre d’Orange’s Tilda Swinton Like This.

Mathilde Bijaoui

Maurice Roucel was working as a chemist in Chanel's laboratory in 1973 when he began his career as perfumer. He was the apprentice of Henri Robert, who was at the time the house perfumer at Chanel. Roucel learned the ropes and discovered the world of Haute-Parfumerie. Since then, Roucel has been awarded prestigious prizes such as the Prix Francois Coty in 2002 and FiFi, or "Oscar des Perfumes." He is a master perfumer whose creative work is characterized by opulent sensuality – sprung from his preference for musk, white flowers and amber.

Maurice Roucel

Michel Almairac is recognized as one of the world's leading perfumers. He began his long career as perfumer after joining the legendary Roure Bertrand Dupont Academy (perfumery school that is now part of Givaudan) in 1973. He was "the nose" for fashion brands such as Dior, Burberry and Gucci. And worked for Bottega Veneta and Zadig &amp; Voltaire, among the other many brands he created perfumes for.

Today, he is the owner of Parle Moi de Parfum. A brand he launched with his two sons to incorporate his own scents and style. The exquisiteness of his haute perfumes are a pleasure to smell!

Michel Almairac

Mylene Aleran grew up in the south-west of France and was fascinated by scent from an early age. After studying chemistry, she started at Robertet: a French aroma and flavor maker specialized in natural raw materials founded in 1850. Since then she has made many perfumes, including Ombre Indigo for Olfactive Studio.

Mylene Alran

Mélanie Carestia made the perfume Betrothal for Grossmith. Betrothal is a refined, modern, elegant and magical scent. Betrothal was originally created in 1893 to celebrate the royal engagement and wedding of Queen Mary and King George. The released editions was made for the wedding of HRH Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton.

Mélanie Carestia

Nathalie Lorson was born in Grasse and has been surrounded by perfumes all her life. Her father was a chemist at Roure Betrand Dupont (now Givaudan, one of the largest international perfume companies). She trained to become a perfumer at Roure and then worked at IFF and currently at Firmenich. With dozens of successful and beautiful perfumes to her name, she is undoubtedly a master of her art.

Nathalie Lorson

Master perfumer Olivier Cresp works at Firmenich and is the co-founder of Akro Fragrances. It came as no surprise to anyone that Olivier would enter the perfume business: his family history is deeply rooted in perfume. Both his father and grandfather bought and sold natural raw ingredients in Grasse. It was quickly decided that Olivier would work with perfume just like his family. However, he did not start his journey in France, but in the United States where he now works for perfume house Firmenich.

Olivier: 'I was literally born in to the world of perfumes. My family heritage introduced me to the “pure colours” of perfume since my childhood. I developed my olfactive memory during that time and a real passion emerged. I’m always on a quest for beauty, for a certain aesthetic. Once the aesthetic is found, I focus on its strength and unforgettable trail.'

Olivier Cresp

Patricia de Nicolai, owner and perfumer of NICOLAÏ, is praised by Luca Turin as "one of the unsung greats in the world of perfumery", and we fully agree. A pioneer in niche perfumery, Nicolai took the courageous decision to launch her own independent perfume house back in 1989. She builds on a tradition of elegant French perfumery and uses refined natural raw materials with a chic personal style. Because of her striking creativity and craftsmanship, Patricia was the first woman to receive the Best International Perfumer award from the French Association of Perfumers in 1988.
Her perfume New York by Nicolai is rated with 5 stars by Luca Turin as 'one of the greatest fragrances in history'. Also her home fragrances (room sprays, scented candles, bamboo sticks) are much loved for their quality and longevity!