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Liquides Imaginaires
LIQUIDES IMAGINAIRES, THE NICHE PERFUMERY THAT TELLS THROUGH TRILOGIES
PHILIPPE DI MÉO AND DAVID FROSSARD FOUND LIQUIDES IMAGINAIRES IN 2012
It all starts with an artistic installation on the sacred origins of perfume. Philippe Di Méo, designer and designer, met David Frossard, distributor of niche perfumery, and the two men found a common conviction: perfume was, long before being an object of seduction, a ritual substance - smoke of incense, anointing, offering - and modern perfumery has forgotten this function. Liquides Imaginaires was born in 2012 in Paris to give it back to him.
Di Méo is the artistic director and thinks of each bottle as a chapter of literature; Frossard builds the distribution. The juices are composed by perfumers from composition houses — Sonia Constant by Dom Rosa — from materials chosen for their density more than for their sweetness. The heavy bottle, with a glass stopper, is designed to be placed and viewed as an object.
PERFUMES THAT ARE READ THREE BY THREE
The particularity of the house is structural: the perfumes are released in trilogies, three creations linked by a theme, each exploring a facet. Les Eaux-Delà deals with the sacred — Fortis, woody smoky and earthy, strength; Sancti, incense, amber and resins, holiness. Les Eaux Sanguines deal with wine and blood — Dom Rosa is a rose “sacrificed for the beauty of wine”, a rose sparkling champagne, and it is the house's most worn perfume.
Les Eaux de Peau explore animality: Blanche Bête, released in 2021, places almond milk and white flowers on a base of skin, the wild beast that we caress — creamy, addictive, and the most accessible of all. Buveur de Vent, from 2019, opens with cypress and galbanum, passes through leather andiris, settles on sandalwood: a great air perfume that would have passed through a saddler's workshop. Desert Suave plays the solar softness of a rose of sand, Soul of Flower the floral wrapped in amber, and Liquide, the most abstract, a liquid floral, almost nameless.
HOW TO WEAR A LIQUIDES IMAGINAIRES
These are dense perfumes, in 100 ml, designed to last the whole day. They are worn as you wear a strong piece: alone, in two sprays, without anything on top. The house rule serves as practical advice — a trilogy is discovered in order, and the third bottle says something that the first two did not say.
WHERE DOES LIQUIDES IMAGINAIRES IN THE FRENCH NICHE
In our niche perfumesdepartment, it is the most narrative, the one that requires us to read before feeling. Fortis, Dom Rosa and Buveur de Vent tend towards woody perfumes, Sancti towards amber and oriental, Blanche Bête and Liquide towards florals. And for another French house that constructs its perfumes like chapters — a family story rather than myths — Sora Dora is the obvious neighbor: both prove that the French niche still knows how to tell stories.
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