Text: Maya Vasilieva IN OUR CENTURY OF TOTAL SATURITY, TO SURPRISE ANYTHING BECOMES EVERYTHING COMPLEX. HOWEVER MARTIN MIKALLEF AND JEFFREY NEWMAN WAS SUCCESSFUL. THE SPIRITS CREATED BY THIS MILITARY COUPLE IN THE ELEGANT VALVES OF HANDWORK ARE WELL APPOINTED TO LOVERS OF SELECTIVE LINES OF NICE PERFUMES.
Grass Charm
Martin Micallef, chief designer of all the products of his brand, is an artist by profession. As a child, she enthusiastically mastered painting at the Rouge de Paris school. Then she opened a beauty salon in Cannes, which was very popular. Even then, her talent manifested itself in creating a unique style, her impeccable sense of harmony of color and form. Martin continued to paint in oil, and devoted her free time to sculpture and design. The career of the Belgian banker Jeffrey Newman has developed so that he became financial director of the French perfume laboratory in Grasse. And here he realized that his true calling was to create exclusive fragrances.
Jeffrey has a talent for recognizing the ingredients of even the most complex odors. Just as an artist paints a portrait from nature, Jeffrey can impromptu create an aroma that is ideal for a particular person, making him fall in love with the created composition. Perhaps that is why the brand M. Micallef has become a market leader in niche perfumes. It is highly valued by the richest people and representatives of the royal families.
Autographed fragrance
The production of such perfumes requires great talent and many hours of work. It sometimes takes a whole year to create a new perfume composition, because one fragrance can consist of two hundred unique and very expensive ingredients.
Geoffrey and Martin draw their inspiration from travel. They like to wander around the world, absorbing new impressions, and then express them in their amazing spirits. Between spouses there is a close spiritual connection that helps them in their work. Jeffrey makes an aromatic composition, and Martin comes up with a new bottle - man-made and unique. None of them are repeated ... It also happens that everything starts with a bottle. Martin has an original idea, she sketches a sketch of a new elegant bottle, and Geoffrey creates a composition for this particular shape. Each exquisite crystal bottle has its own number and, necessarily, a personal signature of the creators. Hand-painted, Swarovski crystals, beautiful box: such a design in itself is a real work of art.
Royal train
But still, the most important thing in perfumery is the nose. A huge role in the formation of M. Micallef was played by the meeting of the couple with Jean-Claude Astier, a great master perfumer from Grasse. He helped Jeffrey to formulate the concept of perfume M. Micallef, believe in himself. Today he is the best friend of the family.
In general, the structure of M. Micallef brand fragrances is traditional for French brands - the main notes are very clearly marked in it. Jeffrey Newman says: “In the process of aroma creation, the basic ingredients are first selected. Then you construct the head note, the heart of the fragrance, its depth. Then these notes are honed by adding warm, sweet, or musky odors to them that make up the trail of the aroma.”
Looking for new inspiration
Nowadays, fashion trends are constantly emerging in the perfumery market. But sometimes you want something sincere, unique, capable of expressing our innermost feeling, resurrect a fleeting impulse of emotions, recall some beautiful moment in our life.
And aroma can help. This is completely different than, for example, a photograph or a souvenir. But only masters can do such a miracle. Associative perception is very individual, and this is wonderful. After all, according to Jeffrey, if you find a fragrance that is exactly right for you, then it's like finding your love in this world. This is the same miracle as the hearts of lovers beating in unison.
Therefore, Martin and Jeffrey accept private orders for the manufacture of individual perfumes. In addition, in the “M. Micallef Perfume Bar” you can create your own unique palette of ten basic components.
Currently, M. Micallef often uses oud wood resin in his compositions. However, some believe that exotic oud extract may soon go out of style. So, M. Micallef is again in a creative search. As Martin told us in secret, this year the company will present new perfumes based on a completely new ingredient that promises to beat oud and become a perfume discovery. Well, I want to willingly believe this romantic couple. After all, fifteen years ago it was they who introduced the fashion for oud in Europe. Now, apparently, it's time to set a new trend in the perfume industry.
