To celebrate their new musical pairing Duo, lead singer of acclaimed band The Kooks, Luke Pritchard and his singer-songwriter wife Ellie Rose have joined forces with world renowned perfumer Antonio Gardoni of Bogue Profumo to create LiTA, a stunning perfume in a collaboration of scent and sound. The perfume is inspired by the mood of Luke and Ellie’s album DUO producing a dark and smoky aroma, with raw ingredients including patchouli, Ylang Ylang and tobacco.
With a classic feel and modern touch, LiTA’s genderless and settled composition opens with a majestic overture played around a thick blanket of boozy, rum-like scents, masterfully combined with warm and spicy patchouli and a generous white flower bouquet. With sparkling aldehyde notes, it introduces a plush jasmine and ylang ylang tune with an impression of a moist gardenia and suede before releasing a sweet and sour amber note with hints of woods revealing burnt notes of vanilla remixed with civet, musk and precious flowers. Like a slightly dystopian love tale full of intimacy and oblivion, euphoric and blue memories, comfort and adventure, excitement and stillness, LiTA develops on the skin creating aromatic notes that appear and disappear in a circular, harmonious way.
Music and perfume share a lot of similarities like notes and structure, they both help set the mood and create atmosphere. Using Duo’s music for inspiration, Antonio wanted to produce something that echoed their dark, smokey, lustful sound. This is a perfume about love. A tale of our inner demons, rising to meet, in a new world of their making.
Antonio chose benzoin and myrrh for sweet tears, vetiver for great depth, flowers for new romance, coriander and thyme for more freshness. At all times, the perfume oscillates between darkness and green tones, but remains warm. Balsamic, flowery and aromatic, this fragrance speaks of itself : top quality ingredients and dramatic contrasts. Shifting between sticky resins and luminous flowers, herbs and spices with a touch of fruit, the perfume dries down to a heart of darkness, hallowed by an aura of emerald green.
"Love has worked its Magic”
Listen to the perfume on Spotify: DUO
bergamot, grapefruit, ylang ylang, sandalwood, coriander seeds, gardenia, tobacco, patchouli, champaca, jasmine, cypress, benzoin, vetiver, vanilla, tonka bean, myrrh, incense
Antonio Gardoni
