The Luxurious Fragrant World of Clive Christian
Clive Christian Parfums is the Rolls Royce of the perfumery world, composing complex fragrance blends using the most precious raw materials in the world. The perfume house was established in 1999, when Mr. Clive Christian purchased the Crown Perfumery Company which had been founded in 1872 and was granted the use of the royal crown by Queen Victoria. The first release by the newly purchased company was the Original Collection, which featured the fragrance pairs “1872”, “X” and “No. 1”. (The collections are sold in the UK at Selfridges, Harrods, Fortum & Mason; they are also offered at prestige department stores throughout America, Europe and the Middle East.)
“We create timeless classics made without compromise.” – Clive Christian
Clive Christian blends a royal British history with visionary flare and the ultimate craftsmanship to create intense and uniquely personal fragrances.
It’s fitting that Christian accepted the OBE award by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2012 New Years Honours List. Later that year, a special bottle was presented to the Queen for her Diamond Jubilee. Queen Victoria so loved the Crown Perfumery Company that she gave permission for every bottle of the company’s fragrances to feature the crown cap – a celebration of a very special personal relationship with one of Britain’s greatest monarchs. You may not know this, but Queen Victoria had many outdoor fountains in London scented with rose oil. She loved perfume.
What makes Clive Christian fragrances so special? To start, every bottle contains a perfume oil inclusion of 20% or above to ensure a long-lasting impression. Secondly, these are complex blends of ingredients skillfully balanced. Anywhere from 120 to 300 different ingredients are used in every Clive Christian perfume. This gives the scents more nuance, more facets and makes they dry down far more interesting. The notes interact in unique and special ways.
What’s interesting about ultra-premium fragrances is you can smell the difference instantly. An aged 50-year-old Indian Sandalwood, favoured by Christian, smells very different from your regular sandalwood note most commonly used today. The rarest saffron has a complexity that makes a scent sing. And the perfect Damask Rose Oil, which costs a small fortune, will make you fall in love with rose scents. These are scents composed with the absolutely finest ingredients.
The timing for this brand couldn’t be better as Gen Z men and women continue to search for more and more precious scents. These consumers are obsessed with scent and consider it an ‘essential’ daily product. Price point doesn’t seem to matter if the scent is special enough as recent statistics prove: sales of men’s and women’s fragrances are up 10% year-over-year, the fourth year in a row to see double-digit growth.
Here are some of our favourite Clive Christian scents:
Fragrance Name: Noble XXI Art Deco Blonde Amber
Brand: Clive Christian
Fragrance Description: Clive Christian Noble XXI Art Deco Blonde Amber is a warm amber fragrance for him or her that combines 219 ingredients. Amidst a riot of blossoming florals and dried fruits, an indulgent blend of fine ingredients emerges such as bitter orange, blonde tobacco, jasmine and tonka.
Scent Style: a warm amber fragrance for him or her
Key ingredients: dried fruits, bitter orange, tuberose, jasmine, blonde tobacco, amber, tonka bean
Scent fact: This is the number one seller worldwide for Clive Christian and a great place to start if you are new to the brand.
Fragrance Name: No1 Feminine
Brand: Clive Christian
Fragrance Description: Clive Christian No 1 Feminine is captivating floral-amber fragrance for her that layers notes of Mirabelle plum, white peach, bergamot, jasmine, rose and carnation. In fact, there are 248 ingredients in this complex and elegant creation. The Madagascan vanilla has a rich cream aroma that is addictive.
Scent Style: a floral-amber scent for her
Key ingredients: Mirabelle plum, white peach, bergamot, jasmine, carnation, rose, a blend of musks, Madagascan vanilla, ylant-ylang, amber, tonka bean
How to use: Hold the bottle 12 inches from your wrist and spritz twice.
Scent fact: This collection of fragrances is a tribute to the love story between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Fragrance Name: Crown Collection Travellers Set
Brand: Clive Christian
Fragrance Descriptions: This Clive Christian Crown Collection Traveller Set contains a 10 ml bottle of Town and Country, a woody-aromatic; Crab Apple Blossom, a citrus-aquatic; and Matsukita, a woody-chypre fragrance
Scent Style: woody-aromatic, citrus-aquatic, woody-chypre
Key ingredients: rhubarb, marine bergamot, Chinese imperial jasmine, sandalwood
How to use: Hold the bottle 12 inches from your skin and spray twice
Scent fact: These travel-friendly 10 ml bottles are designed to slip into your cosmetics pouch or dopp bag. Each bottle contains approximately 100 sprays.
Clive Christian Town and Country is a woody-aromatic scent for him that combines crisp and refreshing herbs with deeper base notes that captures the natural beauty of the British countryside and the elegance of London. Winston Churchill used to wear this fragrance.
Scent Style: a woody-aromatic fragrance for him
Key ingredients: clary sage, grey amber, sandalwood, ambergris
Clive Christian Crab Apple Blossom is a citrus-aquatic fragrance for her that artfully encapsulates the quintessential springtime allure of apple blossom with marine bergamot, zesty green rhubarb, refreshing mint and velvety sandalwood. The result is an energizing yet soft scent.
Scent Style: a citrus-aquatic fragrance for her
Key ingredients: apple blossom, marine bergamot, green rhubarb, mint, sugar accord, sandalwood, driftwood
Clive Christian Matsukita is a woody-chypre fragrance for her that blends notes of green bergamot, sparkling pink pepper, and nutmeg with Chinese imperial jasmine and smoky maté tea evoking a sensual aura. A rich base of ambers, whispered musks and woody undertones envelopes you in a warm and enigmatic embrace.
Scent Style: a woody-chypre fragrance for her
Key ingredients: green bergamot, pink pepper, nutmeg, Chinese imperial jasmine, maté tea, ambers, musk, woods
Fragrance Name: Jump Up And Kiss Me Hedonistic
Brand: Clive Christian
Fragrance Description: Clive Christian Jump Up And Kiss Me Hedonistic is an addictive citrus-amber fragrance for him that opens with a citrus accord of bergamot, grapefruit and neroli entwined with an herbal green embrace of black cherry and clary sage. Maté tea, hailed as the drink of friendship, adds a touch of bitterness to the composition. Dry smoky tobacco adds a warm character, while sweet nuances of maple, caramel, whisky and vanilla adds an addictive facet. There are 203 ingredients in this opulent amber fragrance.
Scent Style: an addictive citrus-amber fragrance for him
Key ingredients: maple, caramel, orris, papyrus, smoky tobacco, maté tea, bergamot, grapefruit, neroli, violet, rose, whiskey, leather, labdanum, tonka bean, vanilla,
How to use: Hold the bottle a foot from your chest and spray twice. Allow to air dry.
Scent fact: This decadent scent contains 25% perfume concentration that is the brand’s boldest and most complex perfume offering.
Clive Christian fragrances are available in Canada at scentlodge.com
3 Comments
Brenda Cremer
December 1, 2024 at 9:20 pmI love the finer things in life and the description of these fragrances are so delicious. I would love to include one of these in my collection.
Somia
December 1, 2024 at 9:17 pmThese sound so luxurious- I need to smell them!
Angela Citrigno
December 1, 2024 at 9:49 amThe first word that pops in my mind is Exquisite! To have your fragrance that gets the nod from the royal family speaks volumes. Bravo Clive Christian.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👑👑👑 I hope to expand my fragrance collection in the future to include one of his fragrances.