Among the many wild brush in the salt-air licked hills of Tuscany is this wonderfully fragrant one: Artemisia Maritima. It is a native species of wormwood, also known as sea wormwood. Although the name isn’t very flattering the fragrance is a multi-faceted treat.

Welcome to Summer: Genista. From spring to early summer these flamboyant shrubs paint the Mediterranean hillsides in swaths of bright yellow color and perfume the air with intense honey and vanilla notes like scented wands.

The appreciation of this plant, in all its parts, is not news. Since ancient times myrtle has been used, especially the leaves and fruit, for everything in the kitchen from seasoning meats and wrapping fresh mozzarella, to making liquors and for natural botanical remedies to treat respiratory ailments or skin treatments. But let’s talk about the scent.

Taking a little break from the long list of florals that are making our heads swirl to give the proper call out to one of the fragrance industry’s biggest players: Lemon leaves. Yes, just the leaves for now because they tell an important part of the scent story.

For some flowers you need to really concentrate and breathe up into the top of your nasal passage to get the full effect. Not these. Intense musky notes with an earthy talc and seductive layer of pollen sweetness fill your nose without much effort at all. Iris. Glorious Iris.

Visit the Tuscan coast in early spring and you may come upon a covering of these wild cyclamen (Cyclamen hederiflium) dotting the forest floor of the pineta (pine forest). An unexpected burst of penetrating aldehydic floral notes (green, metallic, and talcy) gives the sense of the most wonderful fresh linens.

And a new fragrance journey begins…in Italy!

As we settle into our new surroundings and organize production to expand our fragrances in Europe, we’ll be sharing new inspirations, thoughts on fragrance, and a lot more news just waiting to be revealed. We have a lot planned so we hope our fragrance family will join us on the new adventure and enjoy the insights as we build upon the Adage story…

Introducing, the new eau de parfum by source adage: aétai.

Deriving its name from the Algonquian word meaning, “on both sides” this sensual fragrance balances lush floral facets with animalic, exotic spice, and amber-hued woods notes.

source adage’s eau de parfum i’khana is a wonderfully complex, destination-driven fragrance. This scent takes us on a journey to the warm, turquoise waters and refreshing coastal breezes of the Florida Keys and Gulf Coast – a sensory escape to white sand beaches that dip lazily from the coconut groves into the surf.

ARCADY is an ode to those arcadian river landscapes with mellow garden florals, new mown hay, and rich woodland notes drifting effortlessly upon the golden light of a summer’s afternoon.