Celebrated for his ultra-feminine and elegantly dramatic gowns, Lebanese couturier Elie Saab’s wedding dresses and evening dresses are inspired by the beautiful women he dresses, and he works his magic with subtle but sumptuous draping of luxurious silks with intricate embroidery and jewels. “Elegance is an attitude,” Saab has said. “Elegant women are women of character with confidence.”

Like his haute couture dresses, Elie Saab fragrances have a radiant sensuality. With soft floral notes and beautiful bottles, Elie Saab perfumes are a little taste of haute couture in your fragrance wardrobe.

An ode to light, Le Parfum Lumiere is the newest version of Elie Saab’s signature scent. With glorious solar and luminous top notes of ylang ylang, jasmine sambac and amber woods, this beautiful fragrance is highlighted by orange blossom and patchouli accords, the signature notes in the Elie Saab’s fragrance collection.

For the Le Parfum Lumière chypre and floral fragrance, Elie Saab turned to talented perfumer Francis Kurkdjian. They worked together to create the brand’s first fragrance Elie Saab Le Parfum, an impeccable fusion of orange blossom, jasmine absolute, honey rose and cedar wood. For this season, Francis Kurkdjian and Elie Saab created yet another extremely elegant new fragrance, an accord of jasmine blossom’s heady carnal notes at dawn with the delicate sunset notes of tuberose, evoking the light of day captured in the bottle, with the pair pushing the boundaries of the chypre family to make the Le Parfum Lumiere a modern floral woody chypre.

The opening is subtle and surprising: nuances of Italian mandarin oil blended with a hint of Madagascan ylang ylang oil, which unfolds little by little, like the sun’s rays at dawn. The result is a gentle but caressing perfume, feminine and floral yet with the surprising depth of a woody background.

Francis Kurkdjian chose premium essential oils for this fragrance, distilled using the most refined methods to ensure the best quality. The fragrance is therefore a fusion of India, Italy, Madagascar and South America, which creates an amazing melting pot of cultures and craftsmanship. Indian jasmine sambac absolute adds a warm, deeply seductive note, filling the air with scents of white flowers. Ylang ylang is a small flower with six petals, green and odourless when it blooms. A few weeks later, as if by magic, the petals turn yellow and the flower develops a wonderful scent. The white flowers of tuberose open after sunset, when they release their scent, once considered so hypnotic an aphrodisiac it was forbidden to young women. Patchouli heart oil is extracted by fractional distillation from the dried leaves of patchouli, native to southeast Asia. This method ensures the essential oil is far more stable than the commonly used version, and has rounder, velvety accents.

Wrap yourself or someone you love in a uniquely elegant new fragrance.

Le Parfum Lumiere is available in pharmacies nationwide or on www.millies.ie. Le Parfum Lumiere is available in three sizes and is priced from €57 to €113.