Gallivant

Buenos Aires Eau de Parfum

Gallivant Buenos Aires Eau de Parfum is a unisex leather perfume. I remember vividly the summer of 1990, when I saw Magenta de Vine on the BBC's Rough Guide to Buenos Aires programme and decided that this would be an essential destination for me. Only a year later, in the summer of 1991, still a teenager, I took a flight alone to Argentina. It is such a vivid memory: the arrival at Ezeiza airport, the air impregnated with the smell of leather and that particular cologne that Spaniards and Latin Americans liked to use on their hair. It was the beginning of a love affair with Buenos Aires and its inhabitants, the porteños, that would mark my whole life. As a child I had already been captivated by the musical Evita, and that panache, drama and glamour had deeply influenced my imagination. Buenos Aires promised adventure, with the allure of black hair, dark glasses, dinners that started at midnight and endless nights at the disco. I thought of fur coats, men riding with an air of swagger, intellectuals in cafés and the psychotherapists so beloved of porteños. I was reminded of lazy mornings in cafés with Parisian charm, grand boulevards crowded with life and that unique smell of asado smoke that permeated every corner of the city. And then, there was dulce de leche. Its irresistible scent, a sweet combination of vanilla and almond that wafted out during cooking and filled the air of the workshops of the local confiterías. And alfajores, my favourite, those unforgettable biscuits that the rest of the world doesn't know about, but which are pure magic at first bite. Isn't it amazing how powerful perfumes are in preserving memories? Buenos Aires Eau de Parfum is my love letter to this unique city, its colours, its passions, the indelible memories it has given me and the warm embrace of its wonderful people.

Notes: Leather, Herb Mate, Dulce de Leche, Petitgrain, Grapes, Citrus, Tonka Bean, Floral Notes.