Francesca Bianchi Byzantine Amber

Byzantine Amber Extrait de Parfum by Fran The Golden Empire

Launched in 2023, Byzantine Amber Extrait de Parfum is a dark, resinous, and deeply magnificent creation from the celebrated Italian independent perfumer Francesca Bianchi, composed entirely by the master herself. An Oriental unisex fragrance in the highest concentration Extrait de Parfum Byzantine Amber draws its name from the Byzantine Empire the great Christian successor to Rome, whose capital Constantinople was the crossroads of East and West, a city of gold mosaics, sacred incense, and the most extraordinary luxury the ancient world had ever seen. This is a fragrance of that same grandeur: warm, golden, resinous, and deeply, imperially beautiful.

The Scent Journey

• Top Notes: Cinnamon and Bergamot. A warm, spiced, and gently luminous opening. Cinnamon immediately warm and slightly sweet, and bergamot adding a sparkling citrus brightness that lifts the spice and prevents the opening from feeling heavy, together creating an introduction of immediate warmth and sophistication.
• Middle Note: Geranium. A single, precisely chosen floral bridge. Geranium rosy-green and slightly minty, adding a fresh, aromatic quality that separates the warm spiced opening from the dark resinous base with a lightness and clarity that is entirely deliberate. In a composition of such depth and darkness, geranium is the breath of air that makes everything else possible.
• Base Notes: Labdanum, Ambergris, Incense, Leather, Benzoin and Styrax. A cathedral-deep drydown of extraordinary richness and complexity that is the true heart and soul of Byzantine Amber. Labdanum dark and cistus-amber warm, ambergris radiant and oceanic, adding a skin-amplifying warmth that makes the fragrance feel deeply personal, incense sacred and smoky, leather smooth and commanding, benzoin sweet and balsamic, and styrax a balsamic resin with a smoky, leathery sweetness binding the entire magnificent base into something of rare, ancient beauty.

Byzantine Amber is Francesca Bianchi at her most architecturally ambitious — a fragrance built like a Byzantine cathedral, layer upon layer of resin, amber and incense, each material adding something irreplaceable to the whole. The single geranium heart note is the masterstroke: a moment of green, rosy clarity in the midst of extraordinary darkness that makes the depth of the base all the more magnificent by contrast. In its Extrait de Parfum concentration, the longevity and projection are exceptional.

Fragrance Details

• House: Francesca Bianchi
• Perfumer: Francesca Bianchi
• Family: Oriental
• Gender: Unisex
• Concentration: Extrait de Parfum
• Year: 2023