Created in 2006 by Olivia Giacobetti for her fragrance line IUNX, L'Ether is an olfactory ghost from Olivia Giacobetti’s past. That's what IUNX is all about: personal, intimate stories. L'Ether opens with a note of myrrh that smells bitter, balsamic, resinous and slightly smoky. It’s soon joined by benzoin. Together, they smell more smoky than resinous. The benzoin also adds a rich woodiness and vanilla-tinged sweetness to the opening. Giacobetti extends the woodiness with maplewood, rosewood and white sandalwood. The maplewood amplifies benzoin’s vanilla aspect with its gentle sweetness, the white sandalwood is creamy and soft while the rosewood links to a note of lush rose that adds floralcy to L'Ether. A note of saffron adds spicy warmth to the rose and the woods.

The effect is a gorgeous smoky, woody fragrance with a hint of bitterness from the myrrh, that, on me, doesn’t have defined stages. It is a slow-paced fragrance that’s more like a vapour. It feels like being enveloped in the soft, warm breath of a resin fire.

Put it on the back of your neck on a warm day, and then feel the love when people get close to you.

Notes: Myrrh, benzoin, maplewood, rosewood, white sandalwood, rose, saffron.