{"title":"Serge de Oliveira","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSerge de Oliveira\u003c\/strong\u003e is a French perfumer at \u003cstrong\u003eRobertet\u003c\/strong\u003e and the nose behind Room 1015's Purple Mantra.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe began in 2002 as an assistant at IFF, mentored by the perfumer Richard Ibanez, and developed there the attachment to woody materials — vetiver and patchouli in particular — that still runs through his work. He moved to Robertet in Grasse, was appointed perfumer in 2013, and relocated to the company's Paris creative centre in 2019, where he works across both fine and functional fragrance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is often described as an author perfumer, with an unusually strong practice in natural materials: much of his independent work is built on naturals rather than on the synthetic palette that dominates the category. His compositions include several for 100Bon, Ormaie's L'Ivrée bleue and Le Passant, three fragrances for Parfums de Rosine, and Bon Parfumeur 903.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePurple Mantra is a good example of the approach. Built around the Beatles' 1968 stay in Rishikesh, it sets lavender, clary sage and iris against incense, myrrh and ambroxan — aromatic and resinous rather than sweet, and calmer than anything else in the Room 1015 line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrowse the fragrances composed by Serge de Oliveira and available at Redolia Perfumery below.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"room-1015-purple-mantra-eau-de-parfum","title":"Room 1015 Purple Mantra Eau de Parfum","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWhat it smells like\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePurple Mantra is the calmest fragrance Room 1015 makes — an aromatic, resinous composition built around the Beatles' 1968 stay in Rishikesh and the Transcendental Meditation movement that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLavender, pink pepper and freesia open it. The lavender is the herbal, slightly camphorous kind rather than the soapy sort, pink pepper adds lift, and freesia gives the top a cool, watery floral quality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe heart is clary sage, iris and soft floral notes — this is the stretch that gives the fragrance its character. Clary sage is herbaceous and faintly tobacco-like, and iris brings a cool, powdery, slightly carroty rootiness that keeps the whole thing dry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe base is incense, myrrh, ambroxan and musk: resinous and smoky without being heavy, with the ambroxan providing a clean mineral warmth underneath. The community accords put amber at the top, then aromatic, smoky, balsamic and warm spicy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWho made it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eComposed by \u003cstrong\u003eSerge de Oliveira\u003c\/strong\u003e, a French perfumer at Robertet who began at IFF in 2002 under Richard Ibanez and was appointed perfumer in 2013. He is known as an author perfumer with an unusually strong practice in natural materials, with work for Ormaie, 100Bon and Parfums de Rosine alongside his industry compositions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou can see the other fragrances he composed for the house, and for others, on the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/serge-de-oliveira\"\u003eSerge de Oliveira collection page\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor people who want an incense fragrance that is not a church. The lavender and clary sage keep it herbal and bright where most incense scents go dark and solemn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt suits anyone who likes iris, aromatic lavenders or dry resins, and it is the most office-friendly fragrance in the line after Love-O-Matic. Within the house it is the quiet one — Cherry Punk and Hollyrose are loud by comparison, and this is deliberately meditative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnisex, and the easiest of the darker scents to wear in company.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhen to wear it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCooler weather suits the resins, though the aromatic top keeps it wearable most of the year. Autumn and winter are its best season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt works across the day: restrained enough for an office, interesting enough for an evening. Projection is moderate and it sits fairly close after the first hour, which is part of why it reads as calm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the house\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRoom 1015 is a Parisian niche house founded in 2015 by Michael Partouche — Dr. Mike — a trained pharmacist who spent five years in London touring with his band before deciding that fragrance was the one discipline that could hold both halves of his life. The name is a hotel room number: 1015 of the Continental Hyatt House on Sunset Strip, the \"Riot House\", where touring bands took their after-parties in the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe house calls what it does olfactory counterculture, and every fragrance starts from a specific cultural reference rather than from a material. The bottle is the same throughout — heavy coloured glass sized for the palm, under a faceted cap cut like a dark gem, black for the eaux de parfum and silver for the extraits. Purple Mantra takes its brief from the Beatles in Rishikesh in 1968. See the rest of the line in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/room-1015\"\u003eRoom 1015 collection at Redolia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Room 1015","offers":[{"title":"3.4 oz (100 ml)","offer_id":67636346585404,"sku":"3683080617589","price":165.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/7078\/0476\/files\/room-1015-purple-mantra-eau-de-parfum-1.jpg?v=1791313485"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/7078\/0476\/collections\/nose_deoliveira.jpg?v=1791312997","url":"https:\/\/redolia.com\/collections\/serge-de-oliveira.oembed","provider":"Redolia Perfumery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}