Miller et Bertaux A Quiet Morning

Dedicated to eternal India, A Quiet Morning captures the opulence of saffron and turmeric. Basmati rice and palm flower give this creation it's mysterious and wonderfully strange character. A bewitching fragrance with woody overtones and intoxicating spices from far away. With top notes of orange blossom, cinnamon and palm flower; middle notes of saffron, tumeric and Basmati rice; and base notes of sandalwood, patchouli, cedar and vetiver. A Quiet Morning is an eau de parfum, edp. 

MILLER ET BERTAUX A QUIET MORNING REVIEWS

Perfume Posse: Saffron and woods, turmeric cooking and the dusty dry days of Rajasthan small town life. Just a couple of hours outside Delhi by train, bus or car you’re into rural Indian desert with piped water or wells and families on small holdings, subsistence living and bartering their little excess. Some are lucky enough to have enough to bring to daily markets. If you’re travelling through you may stop at a dhabha for tea. As a westerner they will make your tea from bottled water. It will come sweet and milky, spiced if you ask for Chai Masala (Chai is Tea, Masala is Spice). There will be a choice of seating. Under the makeshift corrugated roof or in the garden, sitting on plastic chairs. The smell is part diesel, dust, tea, smoke, animals and humanity. What I most remember about India is the friendliness. Everyone had a smile for me, though many had little else. I can’t wait to go back in September. Until then I will wear A Quiet Morning and dream.

Fragrantica: I have been transported back to beloved India. To a time of cool early morning after bathing where we are clean and fresh, awakening to the smells of spicy chai and iddly for breakfast. Such happy memories. Such a lovely composition. Such a delight. This is a comforting clean scent to me, the sandalwood is warm and inviting, completed with the soft touch of orange blossom. I can see myself wearing this often in times where we are unable to travel physically.

Fragrantica: The beautiful and unforgettable fragrance emanating from three different places in India: The first whiff is coming from a Hindu Kovil (Temple), where the idol is washed with water infused with flowers and melon juice and I stand there in gratitude in silence in humility for all the gifts I have received from this universe. (Idols in the Hindu Temples are usually washed with clean water, curd, honey, fruit juices, dates, coconut water etc. every day). The heart note is of a green rice field, on the side of the road there is a small tea shop, garlands of flowers on idol pictures. A small open shop on the side where rice is purchased and sold, the new freshly harvested rice is still dusty, get close to the grain and there is the fresh smell of the earth and a milky sweetness. The base notes are very subtle: soft flowers found pressed in a book, dried flowers but still emanating a fragrance. Not old, not dead, divine flowers. Overall it's very positive and carries me away to a world where children run across fields, there is plenty, there is simple happiness. A gracious bow to the creators of this magnificent perfume who painted a vivid picture in my mind and transported me to India.

Fragrantica: It’s not often a fragrance takes you places - I mean really takes you places. But it’s not a forecful kidnapping. It’s a quiet invitation, a simple wave of the hand, offering you to come along. A Quiet Morning does take you on an adventure. I've never been to the places AQM takes you, yet, somehow I feel I'm there. I don't get a lot of distinction between notes. It's mostly palm leaf, saffron, tumeric with a hint of orange blossom that seems to come and go as it pleases. And it remains that way for me for the most part. Soft, but not soft enough to disappear. This lasts for hours. Bravo!