My New Favorite: Champaca by Comme des Garcons LUXE

"If heaven had a fragrance, we think it would smell like Champaca," stated Lucky Scent. Named after the flower sacred to the Indus Valley, Champaca is a stunning velvety, creamy, and sweet floral fragrance that strikes perfect harmony between flower, perfumed wood and muted spice. "Although the other notes in this perfume dance in and out, the holy champaca flower is and remains the exotic star of the perfume throughout, an endless dance of sweet, a soothing embrace of softness, and an otherworldly touch of something very, very rare." The champaca flower forms one of the five flower arrows of Kamadeva, the Hindu god of love known in the Western world as Cupid. One smell of this perfume and you’ll know why… you'll be smitten at first sniff.

Champaca (Pyramid Bottle) Notes: White pepper, angelica, cardamom, champaca, bird pepper, tuberose, white musk, iris wood

Perfumer: Nathalie Feisthauer 45mL for $265 via Lucky Scent.