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On the Atlantic coast of Morocco, the small town of Azemmour sits inside a ring of bitter-orange groves whose white blossoms perfume the medina every spring. Azemour les Orangers, released in 2011, per the press kit issued by the house, by Parfum d’Empire, translates that geography into a fragrance: neroli, orange blossom, bitter orange peel. Marc-Antoine Corticchiato, the house founder and sole nose, treats the composition with the analytical discipline he picked up at ISIPCA in Versailles.
Azemour Les Orangers conjures the Moroccan orange groves of the perfumer’s childhood. It sits inside Corticchiato’s long-running narrative method: pick a story, find the natural materials that carry it, and build the perfume backbone before anything else gets fine-tuned.
Structurally, Azemour Les Orangers opens on mandarin, clementine, grapefruit, lemon, pink pepper, lays over a heart of neroli, geranium, orange blossom, rose, then settles into a drydown of hay, oakmoss, henna, woods, iodine. The brand insists on sourcing its own naturals where it can, and has run an essential-oil production unit in Madagascar for years to back that claim.
The fragrance ships in the house’s familiar 50 ml and 100 ml flacons cast by Pochet du Courval and engraved with the laurel-crown signature.