Eram

Eram is a green chypre fragrance for the classic man or woman, the trend setters, those who have enjoyed an impetuous youth but now live lives of refined elegance. Eram is cool and fresh yet rich with luxurious mossy notes and numerous nods to the golden age of perfumery.

I created Eram chiefly to explore the nuances of an exquisite wild extraction of galbanum that I had been offered by one of my regular suppliers of rare oils. On first smell I was drawn immediately to the exotic and far distant gardens of the Middle East. Eden, the most famous garden and the wellspring from whence man was brought forth was too obvious a choice. Nebuchadnezzar The Great's famous hanging gardens of Babylon were another option, but in the end it was a dusty old leather-bound book of poetry that led me to Bagh-E-Eram. The Eram garden is a treasure of ancient Persia and it remains to this day in Shiraz. It was constructed during the 11th century A.D. and was named after a legendary Persian garden that was meant to be an earthly competitor to Paradise.

In that book (formerly belonging to my grandfather) the great Persian poet Abu Nuwas describes fields of precious narcissus depicting them as eyes, a common metaphor in his time.

“Behold the gardens of the earth, and consider the emblems of those things which Divine power has formed: eyes of silver everywhere disclosed, with pupils like molten gold, united to an emerald stalk; these avouch that there is no one equal to God;”—Abu Nuwas (A.D. 756–814)

From the pages of that dog-eared and cherished poetry book emerged the harmony of green notes for Eram: wild Persian galbanum, the historic Mousse De Saxe base and the most beautiful narcissus oil hand distilled in France according to the ancient methods still in use today.

—Jamie Frater, Perfumer & Creative Director

Production

Ref 506562 batch 2459494. Eram has been matured for four weeks and macerated for three months. All of our perfumes are aged in a naturally temperate environment and hand-turned daily to obtain smooth and refined fragrances of distinction.

Application

Eram comes in a natural spray for easy application. One spray each to the nape of the neck and wrists should be sufficient for all day wearing.

Ingredients

Alcohol, Parfum (Fragrance), Aqua (Water), Citral, Geraniol, Linalool, Limonene, Benzyl Alcohol, Benzyl Benzoate, Citronellol, Hydroxycitronellal, Cinnamyl Alcohol, Benzyl Salicylate, Eugenol, Farnesol, Isoeugenol, Benzyl Cinnamate, Cinnamal, Coumarin, Amyl Cinnamal, Anise Alcohol, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Evernia Prunastri Extract, BHT.

Ingredients may change from time to time. To ensure that this perfume is suitable for your use please read the outer packaging of your purchase.

Made in Wellington, New Zealand.