AQUA VITAE FORTE - MAISON FRANCIS KURKDJIAN
🟡 Aqua Vitae Forte – Maison Francis Kurkdjian 📆 Launch Year: 2015 💧 Concentration: Eau de Parfum 🌿 Olfactive Family: Woody Spicy 👃 Perfumer: Francis Kurkdjian 🧪 GCMS Club Collection – Archives Gilbert Bendoni 📦 Number of Ingredients: 61
Aqua Vitae Forte is not a flanker. It’s a refracted memory — the scent of skin warmed by sun, cooled by citrus, and wrapped in molecular light. Francis Kurkdjian, ever the architect of emotional clarity, composes here a fragrance that feels like a breeze with a backbone.
🔬 Structure in Motion
This formula is a study in contrast and continuity — a citrus–wood–musk triad that evolves without ever breaking its line.
- Opening: Bergamot terpeneless, lemon oil, mandarin, pink pepper, cardamom
- Heart: Hedione HC, orange blossom absolute, jasmine sambac, ylang-ylang, cyclamen aldehyde
- Base: Sandalore, Sandela, sandalwood oil, guaiacwood, ambrox super, vetiver Haiti
🧠 Kurkdjian’s Signature
This is Kurkdjian in restraint mode — no syrup, no drama, just precision and radiance. The use of Kharismal (Hedione HC) is a clear emotional driver: jasmine without weight, sensuality without sweetness.
The formula is dense but not heavy, with over 60 ingredients layered like silk threads — from citroasis and citronellol to labdanum, benzoin, and copaiba balsam in microdoses that add warmth without blur.
✅ GC-MS interpreted ✅ Excel file with full ingredient breakdown included ✅ Ideal for perfumery study, minimalist layering, or scent design inspiration
CITRUS. LIGHT. LINEAR HEAT. This is Aqua Vitae Forte — and it doesn’t evolve. It flows. 🟡🧪📊🌬️