Yes, we can enjoy the same kind of glamorous and elegant artisan perfumes that were created with both common and rare fragrance ingredients of the Victorian era! Victorian perfume was made by blending waxes and liquids made by enfleurage, tincturing, pressing, and distilling herbs, flowers, woods, and other plant and animal materials. For the third of the Victorian Romance trio, I created Chalice as a gender-neutral artisan fragrance to celebrate the spectrum of Victorian beauty, both masculine and feminine, using the same types of ingredients.
Chalice is on one hand an homage to the holy grail of love, the vessel of love. Clary sage, also used to flavor claret wine, is a complex herbal/floral essence that has licorice, hay, tobacco, and amber notes. Because of the many beneficial properties to female health and libido, I use clary sage liberally in this perfume. Its rich heart has aged clary sage absolute and a blend of the smoothest, richest selections of essential oil available, plus earthy, buttery tuberose.
Chalice has bergamot in the top and is spiced with clove, nutmeg, saffron, and tarragon to evoke mulled wine. Bergamot was, and still is, a spectacular natural perfume ingredient; in my mind, any wood or floral blend can become a perfume simply by adding bergamot.
On the other hand, it's the base notes and dry down that make this a versatile fragrance. Douglas fir absolute (one of my favorite perfume ingredients) is sticky rich sweetness. Sandalwood and frankincense in just the right proportions anchor the clary sage heart notes.
Chalice also cheapest has a very generous portion of ambergris - my very own, very special ambergris that I acquired at the beginning of 2020. I tinctured to 20% a 100g solid tan piece (a perfect sphere, found in the sands of Mozambique). Tan or gold ambergris is said to have tobacco notes, but this also has a most amazing floral top note. It goes without saying that a Victorian era perfume reproduction must contain ambergris to be most authentic.
Ingredients:
Floral notes: Tuberose
Woods notes: Agarwood (Oud), Douglas fir, aged Frankincense, Sandalwood
Citrus notes: Bergamot
Spice notes: Clary Sage eo, antique clove, nutmeg, saffron, tarragon
Green notes: Clary Sage absolute, Tobacco
Musk: Ambergris
Product code: Chalice - Victorian Style 100% cheapest Natural Perfume