INSULINE SAFRINE
Saffron Liquor • Saint-Honoré Pastry • Praline • Sandalwood
An excessive gourmand wrapped in tension. Insuline Safrine reveals a decadent liquid saffron opening with leathery undertones, layered over Saint-Honoré pastry, Madagascar vanilla, and a praline Australian sandalwood. Notes of orange blossom and spiced essences melt into a velvety overdose of indulgence : refined and radical at once.
This fragrance ages over 12 to 16 weeks, followed by a 4 to 6 week maceration. It is also treated with Vibrage, our patented ultrasonic process that refines the formula’s internal balance, smoothing interactions between woods, spices, and resins.
WORD OF THE PERFUMER
Claire Liégent
Claire Liégent rejected the metallic, the medicinal, the expected. She pursued saffron as intoxicant. Her accord renders the stigma crystallized, caramelized, threaded with honeyed light.
The Saint-Honoré is architecture: choux upon choux, caramel threads, crème. To translate it into scent, Claire Liégent chose abstraction over imitation. The memory of pâtisserie, not the taste. Spun sugar cooling. Visual architecture rendered olfactive.
Orange blossom absolute: narcotic, heavy with white petals at peak bloom worked into a caramelised cristalline light.
Piedmont hazelnuts, roasted until the oils rise and the sugars caramelize. This is praline as the French understand it: not candy, but craft. The noisette is pushed to its golden limit, then frozen in that moment of perfect transformation.
Australian sandalwood meets the burnt-sugar edge of praline. The wood itself is creamy, dense, slower to reveal than its Mysore counterpart. Claire Liégent roasts it conceptually. Pushes it toward hazelnut territory.
Not cassia. Ceylon. The distinction matters. Where cassia burns, Ceylon glows. Its heat is refined, almost citric, stripped of aggression.
MAIN NOTES
Sacred Flowers.
Orange Flower Water Absolute is sunlight with a spine: a bright, aqueous floral threaded with pith-bitter light. In pastries and tea it doesn’t add sugar, it edits it, lifting syrup into air, drawing a clean contour around honeyed weight. On skin it keeps gourmands from glazing over.
ARTISANAL MARVEL
Beyond Glass
Laboratory-grade hand polished borosilicate glass. Thermal shock resistant. Absolute transparency. Zero distortion.
NEODYME SYSTEM
Beyond Metal
N52 neodymium magnet. Extreme holding force, perfectly fitted, for excellence.
OUR COFFRET
Silver Origami.
Silver-embossed board, satin-grain, cut with absolute precision. Cardboard edges left raw, masses tinted for recyclability. It opens in silence, sealed by an unseen magnetic clasp.
