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Founded in 2004 with a line of candles
and home fragrances, Joya (meaning jewel
in Spanish) branched into fragrances in
2010 with two unisex perfume oil elixirs
titled Composition No. 1 and Composition
No. 6. Joya Founder Frederick Bouchardy,
a 2010 finalist for the FGI Rising Star
Award in the Beauty & Fragrance
category, has described these two
perfumes as unexpected mysteries.
Composed of perfume oils, with no
alcohol, the Joya fragrances are
immediately responsive to a particular
person’s body temperature.
Composition No. 6, created by by Joya
in-house perfumer Rayda Vega, opens with
a profusion of Fujian cypress,
grapefruit, and juniper berries, a
combination of scents somewhat evocative
of a tropical forest in Costa Rica. The
top notes are clean and fresh and
natural, as if there’s a beach at the
edge of that rain forest. You can smell
the mix of maritime air and wood, which
open into heart notes of lotus leaves
washed by the sea. Later, as you linger
over an afternoon batido, your skin
seems touched by meadowgrass and cedar,
and the heady aroma of Haitian vetiver
and amber. It’s late in the afternoon
now - and you’re feeling deliciously
sultry. Languourous and sexy, you might
linger on this chaise long after sunset.
This romantic, indulgent fragrance is
delivered in a handcrafted, black
porcelain bottle designed by ceramicist
Sarah Cihat, with a stopper dipped in
22k gold. Looking something like a
vessel designed by Picasso in his Cubist
period, Cihat’s bottle for Composition
No. 6 harks back to a golden epoch when
perfume bottles were objets d’art.
Joya’s perfumes react to the warmth of a
person’s body, creating a scent that is
sui generis and inimitable. And in that
way, Joya’s Composition No. 6 is a
reflection of your own mood and mindset
- and all the heat you generate from
within.
PRICE: $112.00 / 2.5 fl oz (75
ml)
LINK:
JOYA
: Composition No. 6 |
