【Carnet du Parfumeur⑨】The Wind of Day, the Moon of Night

Sometimes, the very same artist can feel like two completely different people.
Their daytime songs make you want to open the window.
Curtains dance in the breeze.
A cold glass glistens by the window.
Suddenly, I feel like taking a walk.
They never try to say anything profound.
They simply remind you that
life isn’t such a bad thing after all.

The songs for the night are different.
You dim the lights.
The room grows quiet.
You listen alone.
They are calm,
yet full of hidden heat.
Tender,
yet somehow dangerous.
You want to stay in the night
just a little longer.
It feels as though you could keep falling forever,
and somehow,
it doesn’t frighten you.
That is their quiet danger.
Day and night.
Born from the same person,
yet carrying completely different air.
Perhaps perfume can do the same.
That thought became
ZÉPHYR and MOONLIGHT.
—
ZÉPHYR is the fragrance of daytime.
Bergamot and yuzu awaken the breeze.
White tea softens it,
letting it drift gently through the air.
Light seems almost transparent.
Rather than resisting the wind,
you surrender to it.
Lighter and lighter.
Higher and higher.
Not so much soaring into the sky,
but becoming part of the air itself.
The trees never announce themselves.
Only the wind passes through.
—
MOONLIGHT is the fragrance of night.
White musk leaves a quiet trail.
Orris and tonka bean
rest on the skin
like pale moonlight.
Warm,
yet touched with melancholy.
Soft when it draws near.
Impossible to forget once it slips away.
It is not a night that comforts you.
It is a night
that makes you want to sink just a little deeper.
A fragrance
that wears its beautiful danger
in silence.
—
Music has its songs for the day,
and its songs for the night.
Perfume can have them too.
Today,
perhaps you’ll wear the wind.
Or perhaps,
the moonlight.
Having not one,
but two companions,
chosen simply by the mood of the day—
there is something quietly luxurious about that.