Champs Délaissée Pictura Fragrans
At a glance
Is Champs Délaissée Pictura Fragrans worth trying?
Champs Délaissée by Pictura Fragrans is a Oriental Floral fragrance for women and men.
- Best match
- Evening, Special Occasion wear in Fall, Winter
- Performance feel
- Unknown longevity with Strong sillage
- Signature profile
- musky, animalic, green with Beeswax, Blood Orange, Almond
The first impression
Champs Délaissée by Pictura Fragrans is a Oriental Floral fragrance for women and men. This is a new fragrance. Champs Délaissée was launched in 2024. The nose behind this fragrance is DL Jenkins. Top notes are Beeswax, Blood Orange, Almond and Yuzu; middle notes are Flouve, Fenugreek, White Tea, Immortelle, Osmanthus, Jasmine, Neroli and Rose; base notes are Civet, Hay, Leather, Musk, Oud, Costus, Olibanum and Cedar.
What shapes the scent
The perfumer behind it
DL Jenkins
DL Jenkins is a perfumer behind numerous creations for Pictura Fragrans, including Animal Épicé, Aquelarre Indigo, Aquelarre, Aquincum, Champs Délaissée, Gualala Mala, Kopi Luwak, and L'esprit Impur. These fragrances span a wide range of styles, from spicy animalic to dark aquatic and gourmand themes. Jenkins' work is characterized by bold, narrative-driven compositions that often explore unconventional ingredients.
Notes pyramid
The mood it creates
The Mystic Archetype: Portrait of Champs Délaissée Pictura Fragrans
Essence
Champs Délaissée Pictura Fragrans embodies the Mystic, straddling the line between earth and ether. The blood orange and beeswax opening is sunlight through stained glass, while civet and oud in the base suggest sacred spaces. This fragrance is for those who seek the divine in decay, who find altars in abandoned fields.
Style & Aesthetic
They wear layers of mismatched fabrics-a priest's robe over workman's trousers. Their jewelry is forged from found objects: a rusted key, a shard of amber. The scent unfolds like a grimoire's pages, revealing pressed flowers and ink stains.
Philosophy & Values
They believe in the holiness of contradiction. The fenugreek and immortelle speak to their reverence for cycles of growth and rot. They collect rituals like stones in a pocket, weighing each for its truth.
Relationships
They commune deeply but briefly, leaving others marked by their intensity. Romantic partners are drawn to their otherness, though few can dwell long in their shadowed world. Their closest bonds are with fellow seekers.
Lifestyle
They rise before dawn to walk the edges of waking and dream. Their home is cluttered with feathers, bones, jars of tinctures that catch the light. The fragrance lingers where they've passed, a benediction or a warning.
Shadow
Their pursuit of transcendence can become a refusal to engage with the mundane. The animalic notes risk tipping into indulgence, a wallowing in the mire rather than an ascent.
Conclusion
Champs Délaissée is an incantation in liquid form-a reminder that the sacred and the profane are two sides of the same coin, tarnished and gleaming.