Angeliques Sous La Pluie - by Jean-Claude Ellena (Perfume)

Angeliques sous la pluie –Frédéric Malle Parfume vapo

Year of creation: 2000

Olfactory family: Woody Floral Musky


It is inspired by the perception of an angelic gust sniffed in the wind during Ellena's walk in a friend's garden after she had rained. She went to work to recreate this fresh, spicy and delicately woody smell. Using the highest quality raw materials, he created this delicate and discreet fragrance. Angeliques sous la Pluie was conceived as a watercolor.

Maitre: Jean-Claude Ellena


As a disciple and close friend of the legendary Edmond Roudnitska (creator of "Le Parfum de Thérèse"), Jean-Claude Ellena began her career with a minimalist approach to perfumery. Since then, he has developed this approach into his own distinctive style, which is continually out of his way of being elegant and quiet, and has been compared by his contemporaries to watercolor sketches and chamber music. Jean-Claude says that a perfume must be like “a soft caress; nothing must shock, nothing must shout ".

Jean-Claude Ellena was born in Grasse into a family of perfumers. His training of him begins at the age of 17, in the most prestigious laboratories - in Grasse, Paris, New York and Geneva - where he always considers himself a self-taught. Jean-Claude met Frédéric Malle in Roure while he was working on a Bulgari "Eau au Thé Vert". He composed a perfume a year for Editions de Parfums before joining Hermès. Now Frédéric Malle is back as a full-fledged author at Editions de Parfums.


A watercolor sketch of colorful angelica flowers with patches of juniper berries, pink pepper and bergamot, on a vibrant base of cedar and white musk.
Shades of purple and gray bleed into each other imprecisely, as if clouded by the rain, in a fragile picture of dewy and spicy freshness.

Head: Bergamot, Juniper

Heart: Rose, Angelica

Bottom: Cedar, Animal musk.


Vittoria Profumi's advice: delicate, soft and slightly sparkling sillage. Lover of "light" perfumes with high persistence ... a breath of fresh air.