Bottle drawn in the shade of the fragrance
1740 Marquis de Sade
Eau de parfum · Gérald Ghislain
A spicy, libertine leather of deliberately unsettling elegance.
- House
- Histoires de Parfums
- Family
- Leather
- Perfumer
- Gérald Ghislain
- Year
- Not disclosed
1740 bears the year the Marquis de Sade was born, and shares his taste for the unsettling. The opening is boozy: bergamot quickly fades behind davana, fruity like a plum macerated in spirits, lifted by coriander and cardamom.
Then leather settles in, smoked by birch, softened by rockrose, vanilla and the dry honey of immortelle, over a base of cedar and elemi. A dark, refined fragrance, worn like a velvet coat in the depths of winter.
Olfactory pyramid
- TopThe first minutes
- HeartThe signature
- BaseThe trail
Notes as published by the house. official source (new tab)
Main accords
Volute’s reading: the intensity of each accord.
Seasons
- Autumn
- Winter
Moments
- Night
1740 Marquis de Sade in detail
Histoires de Parfums presents itself as an olfactory library: each creation tells of a character, a year or a work. 1740 bears the year the Marquis de Sade was born, and Gérald Ghislain, the house's founder and perfumer, turned it into a spicy, ambiguous leather that prefers suggestion to noise.
The official pyramid builds up in layers. The top pairs bergamot with davana, an Indian plant with a fruity, liqueur-like scent. The heart is spicy and earthy: patchouli, coriander and cardamom. The base, the richest part, gathers cedarwood, birch, labdanum, leather, vanilla, elemi and immortelle: a dark, smoky, faintly honeyed material.
It belongs to autumn and winter, preferably in the evening: a dinner, a concert, a night by the fire.
Three leather fragrances in our catalogue resemble it: Opera by Xerjoff and Opera Grande by Sospiro share its leather, cedarwood, patchouli and vanilla; African Leather by Memo Paris finds cardamom, patchouli and leather again in a drier register.
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