In this new episode of “Off with Nose,” Marc-Antoine Barrois, founder of the eponymous house, presents Tilia. The first fragrance in a new collection called Planète, it is a solar, genderless floral — an ode to summer simplicity, built around a linden blossom accord signed by perfumer Quentin Bisch.
Planète: a new collection
After building his creative universe, Marc-Antoine Barrois opens a new chapter with Tilia: the Planète collection. Tilia is the first piece — a “first star,” in his own words. A starting point designed not as an endpoint, but as an opening toward something larger and more expansive.
The approach remains faithful to what defines the house: fragrance as a vehicle for emotion, shared memory, and transmissible dreams. Tilia is no exception — it carries a simple, precise intention: to give olfactory form to happiness.
An imaginary linden: the art of Quentin Bisch
The approach remains faithful to what defines the house: fragrance as a vehicle for emotion, shared memory, and transmissible dreams. Tilia is no exception — it carries a simple, precise intention: to give olfactory form to happiness.
Marc-Antoine Barrois likes when Quentin simplifies the formula. But a fragrance, he reminds us, is never reduced to two ingredients. Around this central accord, sambac jasmine and heliotrope add floral depth, while ambroxan and Georgywood anchor the composition in a woody, sensual base.
The olfactory pyramid of Tilia
The freshness of the linden accord and broom flower opens the fragrance with lightness — a solar, immediately evocative introduction.
Sambac jasmine and heliotrope enrich the floral bouquet, bringing both powdery depth and soft warmth.
Ambroxan and Georgywood ground the trail in a woody, airy base, extending the fragrance on the skin without weighing it down.
The simplicity of summer
For Marc-Antoine Barrois, Tilia evokes a vivid memory: two months of holidays in the French Alps with his brothers, his teacher parents, and the simplicity of a summer that seemed never-ending. A childhood memory — universal in what it touches, intimate in what it evokes. He also sees echoes of Marcel Pagnol or the film Call Me by Your Name: that particular quality of summer, both real and dreamlike.
Floral yet resolutely genderless — neither feminine nor masculine — Tilia is an ideal gateway into florals for those who have never worn them. A fragrance of happiness, in the most direct sense of the term.
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