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When sharp teeth are required.
Pomegranate and rhubarb ripening on the table.
A strange fruit-leather after image, alive at the edge.
Mandrake eau de parfum is the moment you leaned closer when wisdom said run — tart apple and pomegranate splitting against birch root, cardamom and rhubarb sharpening into sueded leather. The mandrake flower accord rises like a hymn sung underground. Madagascar vanilla and tonka soften the landing: the space between screaming and understanding. You were only being reborn.
“Most people are familiar with Mandrake as the squalling magical plant in the Harry Potter novels and movies. Mr. Quartana was inspired by the smell of actual Mandrake which has an uncanny resemblance to apples. So Mr. Vinals uses a classic red apple accord. He surrounds the crisp fruit with the off-beat green of rhubarb, cardamom, along with birch leaf and birch root for Mandrake eau de parfum.
This creates a really interesting fruity foliage accord when it all comes together. That apple is ever present but the two sources of birch provide the leafiness and the sense of the soil it is growing in. This eventually slides into a leathery woody finish around leather, sandalwood, and patchouli. To represent the magical shriek Mr. Vinals adds a sharp synthetic contrast..."
— Colognoisseur
Legends claim the Mandrake screams to its death when uprooted, which could kill anyone who heard it. Its powerful psychoactive compounds also led to its use as an anesthetic and in witchcraft, often as a component in love potions. In biblical scripture, Mandrake was referred to as "the love plant" and was thought to have male fertility-enhancing properties. Its human-like shape led to the belief that Mandrake could cure sterility and induce conception. As Mandrakes were seen as a conduit between the physical and spiritual worlds, they were used to aid in divination, induce prophetic dreams, and facilitate communication with spirits.
"Mandrake root actually smells like apple, the heart of Mandrake eau de parfum, with sharp, sour rhubarb as the "fatal shriek", and birch roots reaching all the way down deep into the Earth."
— Joseph Quartana, Creator
The debut world of PARFUMS QUARTANA: Dark romance, fatal flowers, seduction, catharsis, and the knowledge that death can be a door one returns from. In the magic garden, venom is alchemically transmuted into golden light.
The Magic Garden contains discovery sprayers of all nine fragrances of Les Potions Fatales : Poppy Soma, Venetian Belladonna, Midnight Datura, Bloodflower, Digitalis, Hemlock, Lily of the Valley, Mandrake, Wolfsbane.
The debut world of PARFUMS QUARTANA: Dark romance, fatal flowers, seduction, catharsis, and the knowledge that death can be a door one returns from. In the magic garden, venom is alchemically transmuted into golden light.
The Magic Garden contains discovery sprayers of all nine fragrances of Les Potions Fatales : Poppy Soma, Venetian Belladonna, Midnight Datura, Bloodflower, Digitalis, Hemlock, Lily of the Valley, Mandrake, Wolfsbane.
