“Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
William Blake
Tyger Tyger is a search for the perfect balance between two opposite elements, and the expression of their clashing contraposition. Imagine a Post-Apocalyptic era, where traces of a highly sophisticated and refined civilisation survived in the dark and fearful condition of a collapsed and deconstructed world.
Blake’s poem embodies both qualities Francesca wanted to depict: sublime and irresistibly attractive yet also terrible and scary.
The ‘fearful symmetry’, a characteristic attributed to the tiger by William Blake, aptly represent this opposition of beautiful perfection and terror.
The perfume is built around an accord of narcotic white flowers with sweet-fruity facets, which includes also an absolute of Tuberose. Like a prima donna, the protagonist of a dramatic piece, she’s the finest example of a refined civilization of a bygone world. In opposition to that, the base notes present different kind of woods, with some burnt and leathery qualities, referring to a post-apocalyptic scenario of destruction, mystery and darkness.
The result of these parts, which wouldn’t work individually, is a clashing, sparkling fragrance of a highly dramatic sophistication. A kind of contrasted sentiment that anything attractive can arouse in you.
narcotic flowers, honey, peach jam, patchouli, sandalwood, oak moss, oud, leather, heliotropine
Francesca Bianchi
Alcohol denat., parfum, acqua (water), alpha-isomethyl ionone, Anisyl alcohol, Benzyl alcohol, Benzyl benzoate, Benzyl salicylate, Cinnamyl alcohol, Citral, Citronellol, Coumarin, d-Limonene, Eugenol, Farnesol, Geraniol, Hydroxycitronellal, Isoeugenol, Linalool.
