Liquides Imaginaires

Liquides Imaginaires is a French house founded in 2012, when Philippe Di Méo’s artistic practice met David Frossard’s commercial instinct around an installation about the sacred origins of perfume. Di Méo remains the artistic director, and the house describes him as the brand’s artistic brain — most of what it does begins with his curiosity rather than with a market brief.

The organising idea is the trilogy. Fragrances are not released one at a time but in threes, which the house calls three chapters of the same book: Les Eaux de Peau, Les Eaux Sanguines, Les Eaux de l’Âme, Les Eaux Delà, Les Humeurs and others. The story comes first in a literal sense — the brief Di Méo sends to the fragrance houses is built from legends and narratives, and the oil is developed to translate them.

That storytelling runs through to the object. The house calls each creation a talisman, symbolic and charged with emotional weight, and the cap of every bottle is shaped after an amphora, the vessel used in antiquity to carry the most precious essences. The bottles are made as objects to keep rather than to use up.

Liquides Imaginaires is a Paris house, based on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, and its fragrances are made in France. The compositions are written by outside perfumers — among them Louise Turner, who wrote Blanche Bête — rather than by an in-house nose.

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