Les Baux-de-Provence. Personas into a world of unique fragrances
Rock solid and sun-warmed, yet with a character rich with nuanced and shady tones like its mountains. Victor and his Luberon, his Ventoux.
The Luberon, among the light of the east and the woods of the west, among the departments of the Alpes de Haute Provence and of the glittering Vaucluse dominated by Mont Ventoux. In the heart of Provence and just two hours away from the Côte d’Azur. The eternal sea.
Victor’s paintings bring together all the charm, scents and contradictions of those parts of southern France.
Because he knows how to turn into colors the scents they evoke. The delicate one of the golden brooms, the absolute and inebriating one of the lavender, now purple and then softer. The infinite shades of green of the holm oaks and beech trees, and their smell of shade and water, the ferrous scent of vineyards and the oily one of olive trees.
Each of his brushstroke paints the multifaceted and iridescent reality of the white Provençal villages surrounded by the countryside, of the clayey earth or the multicolored ocher, as the one cutting through the hamlet of Rousillon. Victor goes in search of the light and the smell of the limestone, almost lunar, landscape of the peak of Mont Ventoux, while he heavily climbs in the heat the more than 20 kilometers leading to the summit.
Every place is a brushstroke and stupefaction of shapes and color, like the views from Lourmarin where Victor takes refuge, one of the few villages not perched on the rocks, fresh and fragrant with the medicinal herbs from its market: mint, oregano, thyme, savory, helichrysum…
Victor is aware that his steps are not the only ones to have covered those alleys; he is not the only one to have wandered around Arles inhaling the camphorous and herbaceous scent of sunflowers in the surrounding fields. It is a fragrance smelled even by Van Gogh who managed to make those sunflowers immortal.
Olfactory suggestions by Patrizia Cezza, Perfumer
The head notes of the fragrance are floral from the lavender fields, and green and fresh ones carried by the wind from the woods of Provence slopes; the scent of sunflowers comes from the warm plain, that of mimosa and broom from the sea.
The scent of aromatic herbs mixes with the dry and red notes of the earth… olive trees, rosemary and savory, the wood of the vines, the smell of clayey soil and stones compose the perfume heart notes.
In the base notes, the scent of the hamlets reigns, of the shutters wood, of the water of the runlets streaming along the lanes. Woody, aromatic, mossy and dry notes that Victor’s canvases bring to life for those who smell his paintings “with their eyes.”
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