Portrait
Alexandra Carlin
For BDK Parfums, Alexandra Carlin imagined Villa Néroli: a garden of orange trees in Capri facing the Faraglioni, which takes on a honeyed sweetness at sunset.
Career and creations
At eighteen, Alexandra Carlin was studying literature and dreamed of becoming a writer or journalist. One day she heard a perfumer on the radio speak passionately about his work: she turned to science, studying chemistry, physics and mathematics, then entered ISIPCA. She tells this story in a profile published by Symrise, the fragrance company she was then working for in Paris. For many years she worked in New York alongside Maurice Roucel, before discovering that he was the man from that radio interview. She draws inspiration from art, literature, film and dance.
At BDK Parfums, Villa Néroli celebrates the dolce vita, between freshness and warmth, according to the house. Neroli, lemon and petitgrain open onto orange blossom absolute and rosy notes, before a base of vanilla, vetiver, patchouli and cistus that leaves a smooth trail. The house also owes her Velvet Tonka, in which tonka bean reminds her of Proust's madeleine.
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