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Poppy Soma

@20% parfum


2017 Fragrance Foundation Awards Perfume Extraordinaire of the Year  


A moon-threshold fragrance of narcotic bloom, temple smoke, and red heat.


NARCOTIC PETALS · TEMPLE SMOKE

Poppy Soma is one of the house's defining historical statements: white florals, spice, incense, and smoke rendered with unusual gravity and glow. It feels hypnotic, radiant, and slightly forbidden — the kind of perfume that never settles for prettiness when it can become a spell.

Created with perfumers Emilie Coppermann and David Apel, then honored with the Fragrance Foundation's Perfume Extraordinaire award after blind judging, Poppy Soma remains one of QUARTANA's clearest proofs that concept and beauty can meet at the highest level.


TOP: Sichuan & Red Chili Pepper, Curry Leaf

HEART: Gardenia, Jasmine Sambac, Rose

BASE: Frankincense, Labdanum, Tuberose, Styrax Pyrogene, Musk Tonquin.


Concept: Joseph Quartana

Perfumer: Emilie Coppermann

Collection: Les Potions Fatales

Classification: Floriental, Smoky, Narcotic, Spicy, Amber


Adheres to Clean-at-Sephora standards.


Presenting the all-new Lunar Floral edition of Poppy Soma featuring custom metal hardware from DAPY Paris, polished heavy Italian glass by Verreries Brosse, a hardcover sliding box, and the same great formulation which since the beginning has adhered to Clean-at-Sephora standards.


New to Poppy Soma? Begin with the 2 mL discovery vial.

Already know it is yours? Choose the 50 mL bottle.


$215.00 USD

50mL / 1.7fl. oz. bottle

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    • What are the critics saying about Poppy Soma?

      “Poppy Soma totally blew me away at first sniff. It won a FIFI in the category of Parfum Extraordinaire in 2017 and I can see why. It’s unusual and narcotic, energizing the mind like a whirlwind, yet simultaneously relaxing, while it also smells RED, RED, RED like the poppies it is named after. 

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      And it packs a punch. While a parfum, it comes across as an extrait almost to me. But louder. It’s dense and rich and full. And immediately grabbed hold of my senses. This is no wall flower that’s for certain. Poppy Soma is original and quite brilliant, dark and spicy, resinous and floral, musky, smoky, and hypnotic. It's sensual, leaning femme but completely unisex. 

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      Why are people not talking more about this entrancing fragrance? It’s HUGE, wicked as the night, luxurious and intriguing. Like sleepily lying in a bed of poppies at 3am.”

      — EAU MY SOUL



      "“This is a dreamy fog of a perfume, a gentle enveloping softness. Applied to the neck and arms, it reaches out from the skin to move with you for a perfume aura of pure relaxation. Up close, you get the more intense and specific peppers and curry, the gently indolic florals, surrounded by the white smoke of incense as softened by a cloudy musk.


      As it rises out from the skin, Poppy Soma mixes into a soothing atmosphere that ornaments your presence and unfolds with a satisfying peaceful slowness. It seems to say 'take your time'. Similar to the feeling you get after coming out of a warm ocean, that sense of calm, replete. At this 20% high concentration, it holds and remains true and satisfying.


      It opens the door to a serene center within, exerting its invisible influence over a more extended time than usual for me. A creamy lightness, a presence of subtle soft sweetness, a light silken cloak. Season-less, but especially right for this high humidity.” 

      — INDIEPERFUMES



      "One of my favorite movies is “Once Upon a Time in America”. The movie opens with Robert de Niro’s character heading to an opium den to hide from the police. This particular den has a shadow puppet theatre out in front. One of the fun debates about the movie is whether the movie which follows is an opium dream or reality. I have always wanted a perfume which captures that milieu of the wooden shadow puppets mixed with the sweet smoke of the opium. Mme Coppermann has delivered that to me with Poppy Soma, one of my favorites of this collection.

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      Mme Coppermann uses gardenia as her nucleus of the sweet opium accord. This is a gardenia in all of its fully narcotic grandeur; which seems appropriate. To add in a touch of acrid to represent the smoke she employs Szechuan pepper, curry leaf, and red pepper. These overlay the gardenia with piquant pungency which adds texture to the intensity of the floral. Once the opium has taken hold Mme Coppermann plunges us into a floral fever dream consisting of jasmine, rose, and tuberose. All of these are given enough room to be as expansive as they can be. Over time as we come down the incense stick burning nearby provides a focus for reality. Labdanum, styrax and musk provides a bit of a reminder that we have been sweating while tripping.”

      — COLOGNOISSEUR


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    • Ingredients

      SD Alcohol 40-B, Fragrance (Parfum), Water/Aqua/Eau, Limonene, Citronelliol, Linalool, Benzyl Benzoate, Benzyl Salicylate, Coumarin, Benzyl Alcohol, Geraniol, Hydroxycitronellal, Eugenol, Isoeugenol, Citral, Farnesol, Hexyl Cinnamal.

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    WHAT IT FEELS LIKE

    Poppy Soma extrait de parfum opens with a flash of spice and bodily heat, then deepens into white florals darkened by incense, labdanum, and styrax. The effect is not airy or innocent, but warmer, slower, more enveloping — as though the bloom were lit from within.


    On skin, it feels narcotic without becoming dull, floral without becoming pretty, and sensual without losing its poise. Tuberose and jasmine carry the fragrance upward, while smoke, resin, and musk keep it close to the body, intimate and luminous.


    For those drawn to white florals with heat, smoke, and a deeper interior voltage.

    Poppy Flower
    Poppy Soma 50mL Bottle

    RITUAL USE

    POPPY SOMA

    WHEN IT CALLS

    When the dream is burning.

    WHERE IT LIVES

    Temple smoke and the luminous stillness before waking.

    WHAT IT LEAVES BEHIND

    The afterglow of lunar union.

    IT EARNS THE BOTTLE

    WINNER: PERFUME EXTRAORDINAIRE

    Poppy Soma is one of the house's clearest legitimacy objects: an award-winning fragrance where concept, composition, and external recognition truly converged.

    Joseph Quartana wins Perfume Extraordinaire
    Poppy Soma extrait de parfum 50mL bottle and box

    CRITICAL REACTION

    “With its blast of peppery spice and a smoky note that seems to evoke gunpowder, Poppy Soma makes me think of poisonous black seeds and smoke. The incense twirls and nicely blends with sweet and indulgent white flowers.”

    — I Sniff Before I Sleep

    CREATOR COMMENTARY


    Poppy Soma began with my fascination with poison flowers and with the way certain blooms seem to announce transformation in advance. The poppy felt different from the start: not just beautiful, but charged — as though it already contained altered consciousness, danger, pleasure, and return.


    What I wanted was not a merely seductive floral. I wanted a fragrance that moved like sacred union: heat becoming illumination, smoke becoming atmosphere, sensuality becoming initiation. That is why Poppy Soma has always felt lunar to me — not passive or distant, but fertile, hypnotic, tidal, and internally lit.


    —Joseph Quartana, Creator


    “Poppy Soma is a bouquet drenched in ecstasy, high on opium, a milky incense dance that evolves and lures you into the unknown.”


    — Minaminamina


    “Poppy Soma is beautiful. The drydown is mysterious, delicately Oriental in nature...sexy but not sexual.”


    — Aveparfum


    “HUGE and wicked as the night, luxurious and intriguing. Like sleepily lying in a bed of poppies at 3am.”


    — Christianne1


    THE HOUSE GUIDE

    WHAT IS POPPY SOMA?

    Poppy Soma is one of the house’s defining fragrances: a narcotic floral from Les Potions Fatales and winner of The Fragrance Foundation’s Perfume Extraordinaire award in a blind-judged context where it placed #1 out of more than 400 entries.

    WHAT IS POPPY SOMA?
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    WHY POPPY SOMA AND IEROFANTE MATTER?

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    ORIGIN STORY

    Poppy Soma extrait de parfum emerged from a deeper obsession with poisonous flowers, altered states, sacred union, and the kind of beauty that feels like a threshold rather than an ornament.


    The full public ORIGIN tells the longer story — how the flower, the name, the lunar logic, the downtown nocturnal atmosphere, and the award-winning composition all came together.


    Read the ORIGIN



    ORIGIN STORY


    Poppy Soma extrait de parfum emerged from a deeper obsession with poisonous flowers, altered states, sacred union, and the kind of beauty that feels like a threshold rather than an ornament.


    The full public ORIGIN tells the longer story — how the flower, the name, the lunar logic, the downtown nocturnal atmosphere, and the award-winning composition all came together.


    Read the ORIGIN


    Poppy Flower

    CRAFT & COMPOSITION

    Developed over two years with perfumers Emilie Coppermann and David Apel, Poppy Soma was built as a smoky floriental with narcotic tension, red heat, and unusual compositional poise.


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      Digitalis

      Hemlock

      Lily of the Valley

      Mandrake

      Midnight Datura

      Poppy Soma

      Venetian Belladonna

      Wolfsbane


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