Best Perfume from Calice Becker

Calice Becker is one of the most famous perfumers in the world, lives in New York, works in Givauden.

Or, more precisely, Kalissa Borisovna Azancheeva. Full family name - Azanchevskaya-Azancheeva. Her grandfather and grandmother emigrated from Russia to France during the revolution and, like many other emigrants of that time, hoped that it would be for a while, and they would definitely return to Russia. The family carefully preserved Russian traditions and customs. There were many icons and other objects in the house reminiscent of Russia. But especially little Kalis remembered the Russian samovar, from which in the evenings the whole family drank tea with fragrant jam.

Her parents and she herself were born in Paris. When Calis got married, she decided to keep her last name, adding to her husband's last name - Becker. Hence, Kalis Azancheeva-Becker.

From childhood, Calis showed abilities that undoubtedly should have a perfumer, she had an excellent sense of smell that could not be overlooked. Her mother, a sculptor and artist, studied a lot with Calis, wanting to awaken her love for art in her. She took her to museums, art galleries, looked at paintings and sculptures together.

Calis fell in love with the art world, her conversations with her mother about beauty have always remained in her memory. Thanks to her, Kalis early learned to see and feel the beauty of the environment. And besides that, her mother noticed in her daughter an interest and not a simple curiosity of a small child for fragrances, and therefore, when Calis grew up, she advised her to go into the perfume industry. She considered perfumery not a craft, but an art.

Calis began her perfumery career in 1985, having arrived in Grasse to the most prestigious perfumery school Roure-Bertrand-Dupont. Then the perfumers were mostly only men, besides, she was not from a family of perfumers and not from Grasse. And therefore they talked to her without much pleasure.

But already in 1991, Calice Becker was commissioned to improve the fragrance Vent Vert by BalmainCreated in 1947 by Germaine Cellier, Calis eventually created a beautiful new perfume that features fresh green and floral notes.

In 1996, the perfumer created a fragrance for the Tommy Hilfiger brand Tommy girl... It was from this scent that the brand's perfume line was launched. The fresh scent, based on floral and fruity notes, has become the favorite of the young. The composition contains the freshness of citrus fruits, the aroma of apple blossom, camellia, black currant, mint are harmoniously combined with the flowers of jasmine, rose, violet, honeysuckle. The trail has noble shades of cedar and sandalwood.

Three years later, Calice Becker gained worldwide recognition by creating J'Adore by Dior... The fragrance has gained popularity. A wonderful scent, a wonderful bottle and outstanding advertising - everything played in unison here. Dior's J'Adore has become a perfume classic.

Calice Becker is the creator of many fragrances, some of which are successful and popular. She created about 10 fragrances for the brand By Kilianas well as fragrances for Lancome, Christian Dior, Marc Jacobs, Calvin Klein, Est? E Lauder, there are aromas for the stars, for example, Jennifer Lopez Glowing.

For Lancome Calice Becker, in collaboration with Pauline Zanoni, renewed the 1936 fragrance Revolte... The result is a new fragrance with a floral-chypre composition called Cuir. According to the perfumer, the scent is mysterious and even mystical. In composition bergamot, woody notes - Japanese styrax, hawthorn and birch, which are softened by delicate hints of vanilla and sandalwood.

For the brand Vera Wong Kalis Becker in 2009 created a bright floral and fruity composition Rock princess... Rock Princess by Vera Wang is a feminine fragrance, belongs to the group of floral fruity fragrances. The composition includes peach, raspberry, bergamot, fragrant and mysterious heliotrope, rose, jasmine, white lily. The trail contains notes of cashmere wood, musk, coconut and iris.

Scent Beyond Paradise by Est? E Lauder is a fragrance for women, it belongs to the group of floral fragrances. Creating a floral scent is not an easy task.After all, in order to combine all these molecules into something perfect, an unusual attention and sense of smell is required.

Beyond Paradise, released in 2003, is the result of Calis Becker's gradual approach to the ideal. The composition contains orange blossom, hyacinth, bergamot, grapefruit, in the heart notes an incomparable bouquet of gardenia, orchid, jasmine and honeysuckle. The trail has hibiscus combined with plum wood, as well as amber and ambrette notes.

Oh Lola! by Marc Jacobs is a fragrance for women, belongs to the group of floral fragrances. Oh Lola! - just such a sigh of admiration arises from many girls who first opened a wonderful bottle.

The fragrance was released in 2011. Oh Lola! was created by Calice Becker in collaboration with perfumers Ann Gottlieb, and Yann Vasnier. The composition includes strawberries, sweet raspberries and pears; the heart notes reveal sweet shades of magnolia, peony and cyclamen. The composition ends with an accord of tonka bean, sandalwood and vanilla.

Velvet Orchid by Tom Ford - the new women's fragrance is named after the most luxurious and popular fragrance of the house, Black Orchid, released in 2006. The new version was named Velvet Orchid. She is as bold and glamorous as her predecessor, with the same timeless style. Its uniqueness is manifested in the addition of a purple orchid with intense notes of rose and jasmine.

The bottle, designed by Tom Ford for the Black Orchid, here has the same shape, but is painted in a mystical deep purple color. The fragrance was created by the best perfumers in the world Calice Becker, Yann Vasnier, Shyamala Maisondieu and Antoine Maisondieu, Therefore, it is undoubtedly guaranteed success.

Calice Becker designed the composition Far away gold original Far Away Avon. Far Away is a fragrance for women, launched in 1994, from the oriental-floral group. The intoxicating sweet scent has been Avon's bestseller for many years. The perfume embodies perfect femininity, its scent is extraordinarily attractive. The composition contains notes of orange, sandalwood, amber, gardenia, musk, coconut, freesia, violet, vanilla, osmanthus, jasmine, peach, rose and ylang-ylang.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Far Away, Avon enlisted perfumer Calice Becker to create a new masterpiece. Limited edition Far away gold - a new interpretation of the original. The perfumer used the same basic notes that were in Far Away, but surrounded them with rare and precious ingredients - ylang-ylang from the Comoros, jasmine from India, Madagascar vanilla. Far Away Gold was launched in 2014.

Forever Glowing Jennifer Lopez - a feminine fragrance belonging to the group of chypre floral fragrances. Forever Glowing was launched in 2013 as a composition of saffron, white honey and white pepper, a bouquet of neroli, jasmine combined with leather, patchouli, iris and vanilla.

All fragrances, regardless of their cost, which often depends on expensive ingredients, require the same attention, knowledge and creative effort. And Calis approaches the creation of both in the same way. Of all the ingredients, the perfumer especially highlights the root of the Florentine violet. By combining it with other components, she almost always manages to achieve the desired effect. There are also favorite smells - the smell of hay, passion flower, hawthorn flowers.

Of all the cities in the world, Calis loves Paris. She is fascinated by its green boulevards, smells of pastry shops, and the historical past of the city attracts her. Most of all, Calis loves to relax in her country house, where she draws inspiration from flowers for new unique masterpieces.

Calice Becker considers herself a happy person, because she has found the work of her life. It was in perfumery that she felt the opportunity to reveal her feelings and emotions, to give a piece of her soul to people.

The main principles of her creativity are high quality and the embodiment of naturalness, and her perfumes always find new and new fans. She creates perfumes that are in keeping with the spirit of the times, which are perfectly combined with modern looks.