The Polish Baltic city of Gdańsk is the inspiration behind the new fragrance from award-winning London-based perfumery, Gallivant. Gdańsk is an exploration of mysterious ambergris and the fantasy accord known as amber.
Founder and creator, Nick Steward says: “Poland is a country close to my heart. I admire the character of the people and the place: strong, warm-hearted, independent-minded. That’s the emotion I wanted to conjure up with this perfume. Gdańsk is a beautiful and memorable city on the Baltic – famed for its amber and its intrepid history of seafaring. I wanted to pay tribute to this city with its surprising and fascinating history.”
The perfume
The fragrance is warm and spicy in the opening, with plum, honey, cardamom, nutmeg and saffron. It has a rich, woody heart with leather notes, cistus absolute, sustainable sandalwood oil from New Caledonia, patchouli, and incense resinoid – with a light touch of rose.
The scent is finished with a deep, earthy, smoky ambery base of tobacco absolute, cypriol, styrax (liquidambar), vanilla, musks and ambergris.
Exploring amber in a new way
Gdańsk by Gallivant was created in collaboration with Barcelona-based perfumer, Julia Rodríguez Pastor.
“When I visited Gdańsk I was genuinely surprised by the city -and the place amber resin has in the history and culture there. In perfumery, we tend to think of the ambery style as linked to the Middle East, so I was excited when talking to Nick that we could explore my favourite style of accord – amber – in a new way, and play with this style of perfume-making in an expected and novel way,” Julia explains.
Gdańsk by Gallivant is compounded in Barcelona, Spain and hand-finished in England, in a genuinely artisanal, small-batch, human process.
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