Jouissance Les Cahiers Secrets Eau de Parfum
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Experience a timeless, powdery fragrance reminiscent of a grandmother's scent, embellished with warm, flushed-skin spices.
Exude the essence of an avant-garde literary circle's only female member. Inspired by Anaïs Nin's diaries, with passages collected and carefully crafted, this scent captures the sensual and subversive power of women's language.
This fragrance pays homage to Nin's life as a writer and private individual in 1930s Paris, where she financially and creatively supported a community of other authors. Her groundbreaking work as a female erotica writer in the 1940s went unnoticed until the second-wave feminist movement, when her diaries were finally published and her literary star began to rise. Despite later controversy surrounding her personal life, Nin's lyrical expression of femininity continues to be embraced in the digital age.
“I had a feeling that Pandora’s box contained the mysteries of woman’s sensuality, so different from a man’s and for which man’s language was so inadequate. The language of
sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.”
- ANAIS NIN Delta of Venus (1977)
Warm, nostalgic, sensual.
A well-travelled writer’s den.
Top: Fresh-Cut Lilies, Cumin
Mid: Pressed Powder, Heliotrope
Base: Orris, Musk
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INTRODUCING
JOUISSANCE
fragrances inspired by erotic literature