The global quarantine will soon end, we are getting healthier with vaccines and healthy exercise methods. Very soon, we will be able to leisurely roam around England, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Thailand... or closer and more connected, across the three regions of North, Central and South Vietnam.
When arriving at a new place, people have many ways to interact and learn. Some people will wander around museums; others will chat with locals; some will choose to go shopping to understand the shopping behavior of the people there... However, we all have one common behavior, completely obvious and voluntary, which is to enjoy the delicious dishes of a land. Isn't cuisine a typical cultural feature, the easiest to approach and absorb?
Each delicious dish has a similar complete aroma, they are the crystallization of the quintessential ingredients of a place, the typical processing method of that place, and imbued with the spirit of the person who prepared it. When enjoying a delicious dish, the culture-history-people of that place seem to blend into the soul.
The contemporary world of fragrances has developed a new branch of fragrance called Gourmand. Not simply sweet and pleasing to the nose with the theme of cakes and fruits, Gourmand scents are also fragrant journeys, stimulating the senses and absorbing culture.
macarons
France is famous for its culinary quintessence, especially its pastries. When traveling to France, you can miss the Louvre Museum, the Red Windmill Theatre, or even save time waiting in line for a few hours to reach the top of the Eiffel Tower, however, hardly anyone can bear to miss the Parisian specialty called Macaron.
The adorable, small, round and youthful macaron is a symbol of Paris's perfection and devotion. The cake comes in many colors, corresponding to different flavors. When placed on the tip of the tongue, the crispy shell seems to melt in the mouth. The sweetness invades, the aroma spreads, delicious to the point of lingering. Among the countless famous cakes, macaron is a "no joke" character, because to make a standard macaron, you need to be an experienced and meticulous chef.
From the spirit of the macaron, Ex Nihilo created the fragrance Honore Delights. Located in the heart of Paris, the Gen Z fragrance house is surrounded by countless famous macaron shops: Pierre Herme, Laduree, La Maison Du Chocolat, Maxim's De Paris... Every shop is full of fans of this famous cake. Absolutely, no shop has the same taste as the other. Therefore, the macaron also represents the development and creativity of France: passionate, aesthetic, and never old.
Honore Delights carries the French spirit of creativity and charm. The scent is tender and pure, crystallized from aromatic notes that are seasoned just right and delicately, such as sweet and elegant orange blossom, pure creamy sandalwood, accompanied by a bit of fresh and elegant bergamot. The fragrant, rosy aroma is addictive, the aftertaste, the scent has a bit of sparkling dry salt covering the typical Macaron flavor. Tender and delicate, moisture is the number one enemy of this unique cake, the salt note helps the Macaron balance the sweetness, more importantly, helps the cake shell to be drier but not crumbly. The fragrant salt flavor makes the smeller feel that the Macaron is very real. At this time, we can call the exact name of Ex Nihilo's delicious Honore Delights, orange blossom Macaron covered with salted caramel.
Afternoon tea time, we have the scent of French pastries and cakes, so lovely. Try it once, you will never forget it.
pizza
If France is the leader in pastry skills, Italy is the birthplace of the famous pizza. Many of us may be unfamiliar with macarons, but everyone knows about pizza.
Since ancient times, people have known how to use thinly sliced wheat flour to make flatbread, then cover it with a thin layer of filling. By the end of the 9th century, many lands in Italy began to call the thinly sliced - baked - covered with filling and a few herbs, pizza. However, it was not until the end of the 19th century that an Italian queen came to Naples, and the people of Naples treated that special guest to a special dish, a rectangular piece of dough covered with tomatoes, Mozzarella cheese and basil. The cake after being baked has three colors: red-white-blue, which are also the colors of the Italian flag. That is why Naples is recognized as the homeland of pizza. From then until now, pizza has been introduced to many countries around the world, with all shapes from rectangular to square and the most popular is round. Chefs also freely create toppings of many types of fillings on the simple, familiar piece of wheat dough, so that people can become more familiar with this dish.
Napoli is also the hometown of independent perfumer and artist Mendittorosa. Napoli is located in the South of Italy, a land of tradition and long history. Italian tradition, matriarchy - women are the head, the head of the family. Italians value family, live with affection, generously share and patiently wait for each other to sit together at the dinner table. Dinner is carefully prepared. By the red fire, fresh, fragrant flour is being kneaded with care. The delicate scent of flour blends with the woody scent of the warm kitchen, exuding a loving, inviting, purifying scent. The spirit of Italian family-tradition-origin culture is summarized by Mendittorosa in South. South is the scent of kitchen dough, made from sandalwood, milk, chestnuts, and flour. Not only does it connect us to loving Italy, the scent itself is peaceful, rustic, gentle, and has the ability to detoxify the spirit.
rice
Pizza is so delicious, however, for Asians in general, and Vietnamese in particular, can any of us eat pizza instead of... rice?
Rice is cooked from rice. Rice comes from paddy. Although not the oldest food species in the development of nature, rice is the main food source for more than half of the world's population. In English, rice isrice, originating fromArisiin Tamil.
Reading up to here, some people may be skeptical, Tamil, besides arisi, also has another super product, which is vetiver. Tamil belongs to India. India owns the world's best and most delicious rice variety called Basmati. Basmati itself means fragrant, enough to understand how special this rice variety with a longer, more slender shape than normal rice grains has a special flavor. The Basmati super product was gifted to India many centuries ago. Neighboring countries also tried to domesticate and grow Basmati in their fields, but were unsuccessful. Basmati is only fragrant when cultivated and cared for by Indian soil. Basmati rice is rustic and pure white, the characteristic aroma of rice flour is mixed with the fresh, fragrant scent of pandan leaves. The scent is so abundant and fresh, smelling it makes you feel calm and peaceful. Rice itself is familiar to human life, smelling the aroma of Basmati rice, we feel more peaceful and alive.
Cherishing the heavenly pearl, the Affinessence fragrance house created the ultimate Santal - Basmati fragrance. The pure scent has two main notes, including two rare premium products: Mysore sandalwood, strictly managed for exploitation, and Basmati rice. The wood and rice blend together, one is clear and calm, the other is fresh and calm, creating a fragrant state that is close, attached, and healthy, the more you smell it, the more strangely intimate it feels.
Apple
In Europe as well as Asia, in every person's daily diet, whether it's pizza, flour, rice or sweets, fruit is indispensable.
Among fruits, apples are certainly the most famous "character", with countless interesting anecdotes about this fruit. Sir Isaac Newton did not choose to sit under a jackfruit or coconut tree, but sat under an apple tree, and an apple fell on his head, he was fine, and then discovered the law of gravity. In fact, before Isaac Newton's law of gravity, Snow White also fell into the trap of a ripe apple from a witch. Before Snow White, in Greek mythology, a young man gave a goddess an apple, causing the Trojan War to break out due to jealousy between the goddesses. Even earlier, Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, which was the apple, the fruit of knowledge that helped people distinguish between good and bad, and from there all the gossip started. Apples are even famous in the medical field, with the famous saying "an apple a day and you never need to see a doctor". Not only that, even the most popular smartphone in the world that you are currently admiring, may also be made by the company.Appleinvented
Modern man calls the apple the fruit of mankind.
The apple is familiar but not ordinary at all. And because it is not ordinary, British perfumer Clive Christian created Crab Apple Blossom from 151 premium aromatic ingredients. This is considered a contemporary fragrance creation with a unique and enjoyable Fruity-Apple theme. Called contemporary, but in fact, Crab Apple Blossom "dates" from the late 19th century. After many ups and downs, the lasting beauty of this scent was restored and revived by the perfumer, and now, Crab Apple Blossom is the apple that fragrance lovers love. The scent is wet, abundant, bright with the scent of juicy green apple, with a hint of cool, fermented scent from the effect of the Mojito cocktail. Aftertaste and forever after, lingering on the skin, the apple scent gently blends with ambergris, giving the owner a fresh, open, everlasting, and unchanging scent.
Scents are not only fragrant, but also have the ability to evoke, stimulate the world to be more dynamic and rich in positive connections. Are you ready for the journey to reintegrate into a new normal that is happening everywhere?
