Fragonard Parfumeur Date Scented Candle & 1950s La Mamounia Poster
Norwegian chef Jon Aga once told us that fifty percent of the memory of our travels is retained on the palate. The other fifty percent, although we would increase the proportion, is stored in smell, our sense with more memory.
So, if we are to take a souvenir from Marrakech, what better than its smell. And to us the 'Red City' smells of dates and figs macerated by the sun, almond milk and orange blossoms, cedar forests and tanned leather, bitter oranges and rose petals.
Marrakech smells like La Mamounia to us
Marrakesh, we are lucky, It smells like La Mamounia to us. The unmistakable and now classic scent, made exclusively by the perfumer Olivia Giacobetti –usual of firms such as Dyptique or Penhaligon’s–, and marketed by the firm Fragonard Parfumeur (only for the hotel) it is soft and voluptuous like the velvet of the curtains, meticulous like the filigree of the lamps, sensual and enigmatic like the nights of the Sahara and intoxicating like the hotel itself.
Do you want your house to smell the same? You can buy it **in candle, diffuser or vaporizer format for the home at La Boutique Mamounia ** in three different aromas: dates (the original), orange blossom (our favorite) and jasmine.
In the store you will also find a wide selection of items made for La Mamounia: Djellaba-type bathrobes, slippers to be at home, leather trays, vintage posters...
But listen to us the aroma is the best memory.
Cedars, dates, figs, orange blossoms, oranges and rose petals. The scent of Marrakesh
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