Francesca Bianchi - Sticky Fingers - niche perfume
Description: Spicy Patchouli, Powdery Tobacco and Leather
Mood: Rock, Chic, Decadent, Luxurious
A sumptuous and elegant Patchouli is the protagonist of this ‘rock-chic’ creation.
A sparkling spicy opening then reveals leather and tobacco, all infused in iris butter. It represents a wild yet carefree atmosphere, sophisticated yet sensual, elegant with originality.
30 ml Extrait de parfum
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Notes: Coriander, cinnamon, iris butter, patchouli, sandalwood, heliotrope, musk, castoreum, leather, tobacco, tonka bean.
This is an extrait de parfum, so use sparingly as the concentration is 25%. It has a great longevity (an average of 12h).
The making of Sticky Fingers
This perfume sticks not just to your fingers, but perversely sticks to your mind.
The perfume revolves around Patchouli, in a decadent and sumptuous interpretation. The opening immediately puts on the table the powerful weapons: an intense, almost boozy patchouli and leather. It is somehow wild and carefree, dangerously dressed in leather but playful. The dry-down gets softer and more complex, thanks to a dirty iris butter which makes the whole atmosphere smoother and more intriguing. Don’t get fooled by iris, no romance is going on here: tobacco leaves are rolled, the leather jacket is eventually thrown somewhere, and the delightful and tempting smell of skin finally emerges.
Many intertwined reasons and personal mental associations led me to this creation and its title.
This perfume is conceived to be as tempting as chocolate stuck all over your fingers and you cannot help but licking them. Mind you: this is not a gourmand fragrance, and licking your fingers is a metaphor referring to other kind of irresistible temptations.
One major reference is surely the iconic album from 1971. I love rock, and the 70s for what they brought in music, but especially, I love that album cover.
It accompanied me for a long while, as a vinyl record shop just around the corner was displaying it on its window, and I was exposed to it every day.
That cover literally stuck to my mind, and when I started thinking about the mood of this perfume, I couldn’t help but thinking about that.
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Perfumer Francesca Bianchi creates exceptional, stunning perfumes that express her deepest emotions. Having been inspired to make perfumes by the many places she has visited and worked in the world, such as Marrakesh, Amsterdam and Florence, this former art history graduate and art book publisher now oversees the entire perfume creation process. From blending and sourcing own ingredients to bottling, packaging and distribution.
A unique tradition
INSPIRED BY MEMORIES
A sensualist and art historian, Bianchi is drawn to the more expressive and emotional aspects of perfume; she believes that any perfume that evokes an emotion or a memory is better than one that simply pays homage to a certain material.
She is personally inspired by memories of childhood scents, smells of various places, face creams, people, even dreams - her true measure as an artist is that she expresses these feelings most clearly through her perfumes without losing any of the original intensity. Her perfumes are like strong, mysterious, sensual and hungry creatures that completely devour their wearer.
DESIRE TO SPARK AN EMOTION
Francesca is mostly inspired by the power of what it means to be human, by the wish to connect with people’s inner life, the desire to spark an emotion in them and make them feel at home in their own bodies, offer solace, or just a quick fix for a bad day. Olfactory signals travel with no mediation – just in a couple of synapses – to the limbic system, the place assigned to memory and emotions in our brain. As a result, the reaction triggered by the sense of smell is biologically inescapable, not liable to manipulation. It therefore fully satisfies our longing for authenticity.
Her perfumes have gained a reputation for being sensual and provocative, probably as a consequence of their focus on human nature and intimacy.