…Sweden-based perfume house Byredo have released their ninth perfume which pays homage to the poet Charles Baudelaire. It is called Baudelaire. The perfume was inspired by a passage, 5-8, from a poem from Les Fleurs du Mal entitled “Parfum Exotique” (Exotic Perfume). This passage is about the conjuring-up of the aromas and images of an exotic island on a warm fall evening in Paris (Baudelaire loved Paris like nothing else and famously hated the bucolic charms of the countryside) while breathing in the perfumes emanating from the bosom of his lover,
« … a lazy isle to which nature has given singular trees, savory fruits, men with bodies vigorous and slender, and women in whose eyes shines a startling candor … » … (via Byredo Baudelaire (2009) {New Perfume} | The Scented Salamander: Perfume & Beauty Blog & Webzine)
