Winter Palace
Cold spices and aldehydes give the opening a quality of frozen air in a gilded interior: something formal and vast. Rose and incense take the heart together, the combination regal rather than devotional, more throne room than chapel. Oud and sandalwood in the base are rich and persistent, amber giving the finish a warmth that makes the cold opening feel like a memory by the time the drydown settles. Winter Palace wears like something inherited.
Why We Carry This
Winter Palace is Memo's most architecturally ambitious fragrance. The aldehydes-over-incense-over-oud structure is not a common arc, and Memo executes it without the composition feeling overwrought. We carry it as the cold-weather anchor of the Memo range.
Scent Profile
Top notes: Rum, Bergamot, Saffron
Heart notes: Rose, Oud, Incense, Birch
Base notes: Amber, Sandalwood, Musk, Benzoin
Character
Accords: Amber, Oud, Warm Spicy, Woody, Smoky, Sweet
Perfumer: Alienor Massenet
Launched: 2020