Marc-Antoine Barrois Eau de Parfum Ganymede, 100 ml Review

Marc-Antoine Barrois Ganymede is a woody-spicy luxury fragrance for men and women, launched in 2019 by French perfume house Marc-Antoine Barrois. Created by perfumer Quentin Bisch, Ganymede revisits the suede-leather notes that made Ganymede a great classic. However, this time the artists broke free from the traditional codes to take us somewhere else, to an aluminous and flowing elegance. The leathery notes become softer, acquiring lightness and tenderness in contact with the scent of violet. The smell of mandarin brings full liveliness and acidity. The latter from the very beginning gives tonality and verticality to the fragrance. However, the immortelle that opposes it is its counterpoint and lifts the aromatic harmony with its two-sided aroma, sometimes mineral, sometimes salty. The whole composition plays with contrasts and oppositions. Creating an elegant and unexpected harmony around a quartet of tangerine, violet, immortelle and suede, the two creators dreamed of a new planet: Ganymede, Jupiter''s rocky moon discovered in 1610 by Galileo, is radiant and covered in salty oceans. It takes its name from Greek mythology: a young man named Ganymede was kidnapped by the gods, who were so amazed by his beauty that they offered him immortality. Created by perfumer Quentin Bisch, Ganymede also uses the suede notes that have made it a beautiful classic. But this time, the artists changed the usual codes to take us somewhere else, to a radiant and flowing elegance. These leathery notes become softer, becoming lighter and more delicate as they combine with the fragrance of violet. The smell of mandarin brings cheerfulness and bright sourness, which immediately gives tone and sublimity to the aroma. Immortelle adds harmony and duality, sometimes mineral and sometimes salty. The whole composition plays on contrasts and opposites. The notes respond to each other in constant conversation, drawing a new olfactory map on the skin, on the inside of a cashmere jacket, or even right there, next to the buttons on the sleeves, on the wrist. If the fragrance could be combined into one image, it would be a compass: north for the spicy liveliness of mandarin, to which the south would respond with eternal flowering. The density of suede notes in the west would balance the graceful and delicate violet in the east. These are the four destinations for a fragrant journey into a new imaginary world and new codes of elegance.