It was only a matter of time before Charlotte Tilbury unveiled her own fragrance, and naturally she’s enlisted her BFF, Kate Moss, as the face. The makeup artist, who says she’s been mixing scents for years, argues this combination cannot just evoke sensuality but affect the environment and others around the wearer in a positive way.
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Suffice it to say Tilbury is kind of a legend, and not just for her makeup mastery: With her bright red hair and flamboyant, magnetic presence, she’s become as much a friend to her A-list clients as she is a behind-the-scenes wizard.
Scent of a Dream is said to be a mind-altering fleurotic scent that features psychoactive notes like fire-tree, amber, and a synthetic compound Hedione. But the fragrance also builds on the hedonistic sensuality she has become known for: While Tilbury’s cosmetics affect physical attraction on a visual level, her fragrance has been formulated to generate “an emotional pathway to the brain and to the sex receptors”.
Supermodel Kate will front the campaign and she loved working alongside Charlotte.
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The campaign was shot by Sølve Sundsbø, and the film was directed by Baillie Walsh. “She encompasses everything that is ethereal and powerful about this perfume”. She is the ultimate modern day icon’. Moss feels that the chemistry that she shares with Tilbury makes this collaboration magical and feels it is a natural partnership. It combines intoxicating floral extracts and musks with newly-discovered psycho-active ingredients.’ In other words: the top notes include peppy lemon, peach and black pepper, followed by florals, such as tuberose, jasmine and patchouli, whilst the base is made up of pheromone notes, said to stimulate desire and are activated by body heat. Its nose, the president of the Technical Commission of the French Society of Perfumers, Francois Robert, describes it as a combination of both the floral and chypre groups, with ingredients that “dance together in a new way”. But we are not talking about her makeup collection today, as Tilbury is preparing to launch her second beauty offering: a very personal fragrance project called Scent of a Dream.
