In the heart of summer, Magali, the founder of Rose et Marius as a child, shared unique moments with her grandmother. Picking fresh immortelle flowers in the garrigue. She remembers the long hours of hanging these flowers from the ceiling of the bastide, to dry them.
An olfactory memory that perfumed the rooms of the family home with a spicy, licorice-like scent. Today, we would like to share with you this intoxicating fragrance typical of the South. We tell you all about immortelle in perfumery.
What is an immortelle flower?
This flower is also called “sand immortelle” or “dune immortelle”. Its fragrant facets: honeyed, sweet, but also salty and spicy. The immortelle gives a real personality to perfumed compositions. Whether floral, chypre or amber. It is a plant that grows wild and makes the hillside so beautiful and golden in summer. It can also be cultivated in the Mediterranean basin. Its flowers are yellow. It is presented in small umbrellas, with a very powerful scent. One recognizes him accents of curry, of mixture of spices Indian well known what is often worth to him the appellation of flower to curry. In perfumery, we use the absolute of immortelle, which is obtained by extraction with volatile solvents.
The particularities of the immortelle
Its particularity is as its name indicates: immortal. Indeed, it is a sunny flower which (almost) never fades, even when cut. Moreover you can find it in the dried flowers boudoir of our store Rose et Marius in Aix en Provence.
The immortelle is a yellow flower that grows only in hot and dry countries. The Corsican scrub in Spain, and of course in Provence! From the month of June our Provencal scrubland lights up with this characteristic yellow color. Every year we pick wild immortelle for our customers. We dry it and offer it to you as a flower arrangement. Indeed, at the Rose et Marius store in Aix en Provence, you can discover a whole selection of exceptional perfumes but also compose your bouquets of dried flowers to measure.
We have a large variety of very colorful dried flowers that will fit the colors of your interior. The concept is simple, you choose as many varieties of flowers as you want. And Marie or Carla will make you a unique bouquet, to your image. That we will perfume on demand.
What are the benefits and virtues of the immortelle?
This flower has many virtues, especially in phytotherapy. Here are some of its therapeutic benefits. It treats dyspepsia, hematoma. But also the disorders of the circulation, the varicose veins, the cutaneous affections. It fights lethargy and depression. The immortelle is antifungal, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and healing.
Find the immortelle in the creations Rose et Marius.
As you may have noticed, we are very attached to this flower. Both for its olfactory dimension and for the memories it evokes. So we use it in many of our perfumed creations.
It combines wonderfully with floral, woody and amber fragrances. But it can also surprise us by imposing itself with oriental or aromatic notes.
Our favorite is our Eau de Parfum “Un rendez-vous avec Cézanne”. A tribute to the Sainte Victoire mountain. It also exists in travel size. This oriental fragrance, warm takes the notes of sage, star anise of absolute of Immortelle in top notes. Then in heart notes, cardamom, the warmth of amber, to finish on the woody base notes of cypress and tobacco leaves.
An exclusive fragrance from the Haute Parfumerie de Grasse. The bewitching and elegant trail will take you on an exceptional olfactory journey. In the heat of a summer, in Provence in the heart of the Sainte Victoire Mountain.
It contains as noble materials of the essential oil of ginger of India, of the wood of gaiac of Paraguay, of the cardamom of Guatemala, of the cypress of France, of the leaves of eucalyptus, of the heart of patchouly of Indonesia, of the leaves of Cedar of Canada. But also star anise from Yunnan, lemon from Sicily, pine from Siberia and immortelle absolute from Corsica.
In a fresher version. Fall for our latest Eau de Parfum “Une Escale dans les calanques”. This perfume was created as a tribute to the wonderful creeks that line the Côte Bleue, where Magali, the creator of Rose et Marius, lives. In these creeks bloom wild immortals. Their fragrance accompanies our summer baths in the Mediterranean.
This fragrance contains essential oil of Indian ginger, Paraguayan gaiac wood, Guatemalan cardamom, French cypress, eucalyptus leaves, Canadian cedar leaves, Yunnan star anise, Siberian pine and Corsican immortelle absolute.
In a fresher version. Fall for our latest Eau de Parfum “Une Escale dans les calanques”. This perfume was created as a tribute to the wonderful creeks that line the Côte Bleue, where Magali, the creator of Rose et Marius, lives. In these creeks bloom wild immortals. Their fragrance accompanies our summer baths in the Mediterranean.
This fragrance contains essential oil of Indian ginger, Paraguayan gaiac wood, Guatemalan cardamom, French cypress, eucalyptus leaves, Canadian cedar leaves, Yunnan star anise, Siberian pine and Corsican immortelle absolute.
And to perfume your home sweet home?
What if you perfume your home with this wild and exceptional flower?
It will give a lot of character and elegance to your interior.
Also find our perfumes for the house based on immortelle in our diffusers of perfume without alcohol based on Bio oil in this exclusive creation: An Appointment with Cezanne.
An exceptional concentration of 20% of exclusive Rose et Marius perfume to embalm your interior with immortelle. This exceptional perfume diffuser comes with 7 sticks. And it is refillable.
This perfume also exists in version scented candle in porcelain from limoges and also availbale in refillable luxury scented candle.
We share our secrets…
The immortelle is part of the life of the Provençal people. And the memories of the creator of Rose et Marius. We are pleased to share with you one of our family recipes.
Did you know? Immortelle can also be used as a skin elixir!
This flower is reputed to regulate acne and mixed problem skin or to improve blood circulation throughout the body. It is also used to help with wound healing.
Our home recipe:
1-Pick wild immortelle in the summer.
2-Soak these helichrysum flowers in olive oil from Provence.
3-Macerate in a tightly covered container, away from the light, for a minimum of 3 weeks (ideally 6).
4-Filter and bottle in opaque colored bottles so that the light does not alter the properties of this flower.
You can use it to moisturize your skin as a night serum but also to reduce redness and couperose!
