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Fragrance Du Bois recognises women who have made a positive int the Middle East.

Fragrance Du Bois is honoured to acknowledge the ladies who have actually made a favorable influence on society in the Middle East.

By sponsoring the Arab Woman Awards 2014 in the UAE – which is under the patronage of His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan – Fragrance Du Bois acknowledged the effort and dedication revealed by remarkable people in company, the arts, sports, fashion, the media, federal government and charitable business. Fragrance Du Bois was pleased to present splendid Oud-based scents to a few of the females at the awards event, sealing the brand’s position as the leading scent for prominent people who assist to form today’s world.

“Fragrance Du Bois is privileged to be a part of the foremost awards that identify ladies of the Arab world who have not just motivated other females, however other people to prosper and satisfy their dreams, while likewise playing a favorable function in adding to the world in their picked fields,” stated Emma Henry – Director, Fragrance Du Bois Middle East.

“As a brand, we make every effort to offer the most magnificent Oud based scents making use of just superior active ingredients. Our collaboration with the Arab Woman Awards,” she concluded, “makes so much sense for us.”.

Gary Crates — CEO Europe, Asia Plantation Capital included, “We completely support the Arab Woman Awards, and we join them in commemorating the accomplishments of all the deserving laureates. At Asia Plantation Capital we pride ourselves on making a distinction, and raising awareness of the significance of sustainability and the have to look after our environment.” He continued, “That the scents we have actually assisted to develop are now decorating the females who are assisting to form the future of the Middle East manages us no little sense of pride.”.

Providing a hand put together choice of great scents to Dr. Shaikha Al Maskari, Fragrance Du Bois was pleased to acknowledge her success in company, and her function in being a motivation to ladies who aim to prosper in the business world in the Middle East. Showing that the efficiency of a thoughtful leadership design is not a misconception, Dr. Shaikha’s supporting design stimulates the type of commitment, dedication and dedication from her staff members that is seen just seldom in other organisations.
Fragrance Du Bois’ Emma Henry was likewise kindlied to provide the sporting award to Ms. Khadijah Mohammed, who not just made history by ending up being the very first female weightlifter to stand for the Arabian Gulf Region at an Olympic Games (when she got London 2012), however likewise by being the very first female Emirati professional athlete ever to certify outright. Breaking through formerly developed frontiers, Ms. Mohammed is now blazing a trail in motivating females to take part in sports and make an effect in the global arena.

Previously in 2014, Fragrance Du Bois likewise sponsored the Arab Woman Awards in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Ms. Farah K Behbehani was an award recipient at the conference in Kuwait, and as a freelance graphic designer specialising in print and editorial design (in addition to Arabic calligraphy), Fragrance Du Bois was thrilled that a distinction ought to go to a person who is concentrated on how custom and culture can exist side-by-side with the modern-day world.

“Fragrance Du Bois is happy to be associated with females who influence the world to accomplish greater requirements. Whether by making contributions to charity, altering state of minds or opening doors, these are the individuals who make favorable modifications in the neighborhoods we live in,” she concluded, “and they are the individuals who Fragrance Du Bois will certainly constantly be excited to partner, in 2015 and beyond.”.

French and Oud Connection for the present age.

Sought after because the dawn of time; revered in Middle Eastern and Asian cultures; Oud has quick end up being the active ingredient of option worldwide’s unique scents.

Magical, enigmatic, and essential, Oud is drawn out from the extremely valued and quick vanishing Agarwood tree that is belonging to Southeast Asia and its environments. It has an amazing history and intricacy, and is now to be discovered in the shops and high-end branded shops whose names are redolent of Parisian Haute Couture and French finery.

Disciples of Oud are legion– especially amongst the coterie of the world’s Master Perfumers who value its amazing qualities and the depth it provides to a scent. To that group of cognoscenti, we can now include, rather all of a sudden, the Private Banker, Wealth Manager and Family Office.

The brand-new brand of fans is not always drawn to Oud for its practically legendary health-giving, wellness or perhaps aphrodisiacal qualities occasionally depicted in tv projects or in shiny periodicals together with the current fragrance du jour. Nor maybe for its superb fragrance and richness of olfactory structure. Exactly what’s promoting interest are difficult money, and the nourishing of ecological and sustainable consciences.

Considering that 2000, the trees from which Oud is gotten has actually been positioned on the CITES threatened types list, and their harvesting in the wild has actually been made unlawful. Need is pressing, and growing, and has actually added to the trees in the wild being collected to near termination due to their value in Chinese and Middle Eastern cultures, in addition to a myriad of other usages in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and scent markets and beyond.

Stocks remain in brief supply, while need is enhancing, and that just 7 in every 100 trees produce Oud, which even those 7 can just produce a small quantity of the wonderful oil, has actually caused an extraordinary denudation. It has actually likewise produced a distinct financial investment and sustainable company chance.

The option would seem a simple one to reach; plant more trees, await a couple of years, and get rich.

In fact, growing the trees and growing them is fairly simple. The secret lies in having the exclusive innovation, production, experience and competence systems through to final product distribution to turn a basic tree from a near useless softwood, into an oil that is valued at approximately US$ 50,000 per kilogramme.

In this circumstances, it is a carefully concealed (of significant value) and Asia Plantation Capital (APC) is among the few business who, over the last 10 years, have actually accomplished the apparently unlikely. Lots of business assert to have actually made the current and biggest clinical advancements, however just APC and a handful of smaller sized business and growers – numerous of whom work solely with the APC Group– have actually regularly produced outcomes that confirm their claims.

Backed up by all the pertinent accreditation and approvals, in addition to the necessary distribution network, Asia Plantation Capital has an exclusive ‘Soil to Oil to You’ company design that includes vertical combination in the whole supply chain, from seed proliferation, all the method through to informed customers purchasing retail items.

The Asia Plantation Capital Agroforestry Group has actually just recently been engaging with European and Middle Eastern based financial investment supervisors, funds, household workplaces and personal lenders to inform its distinct story.

Eyebrows were raised, interests stimulated, and interest signed up, with a number of groups seizing the day to visit the business’ plantations, factories and retail outlets in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, to see on their own exactly what all the buzz had to do with.

It was a buzz produced by the business and its jobs being bestowed with the “Best Forestry Asset Management Award 2014” by CFI Magazine, and being shortlisted as a finalist in the “World Sustainable Business Awards”, kept in Paris by Organic Monitor. And maybe it had something to do with more awards being gathered by fragrances produced by Fragrance Du Bois– among APC’s associated business, to which it provides the extraordinary, 100 % ensured natural, natural Oud oil.

“Having seen our possessions under management grow to US$ 600 million at the end of 2013,” stated Gary Crates – CEO Europe, “from financiers in the understand and our own investors in the Group’s plantation tasks in their nations, we discovered enhancing interest from institutional financiers, pension funds and household workplaces from more afield.”.

The huge distinction is that 95 % of our typical visitors are Asian, who comprehend first-hand the chances in the plantation sector. Seeing European Asset Managers and some from the Middle East was a brand-new experience for us, and plainly an outcome of the difficult work our groups throughout Asia have actually contributed to the business’s and plantations’ hidden success and development.”.

“Mister Vincent de Meaux, from Athos Patrimoine stated, “I need to state I have actually been taking a look at numerous chances in the plantation sector, and performing due diligence on behalf of customers for a variety of years on tasks and business. Prior to my visit, I was open minded, however possibly a little hesitant. The big scale of operations and skilled management and systems Asia Plantation Capital have actually established and put in location, total up to among the most remarkable total plantation company designs I have actually seen.”.

He went on, “Add to that their back-end processing and distribution through their own business’s retail outlets in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, produces a real, vertically incorporated and special sustainable company chance. It likewise resembles among the very best strategic hedge techniques I have actually seen in recent times. It’s not a surprise this business has actually currently attained a lot,” he concluded, “and the included perk for today’s world is that it is 100 % sustainable; the business even has ISO status for its carbon footprint.”.

Fragrance Industry Expert Simon French stated, “Having invested more years than I care to discuss at director level in a few of the world’s biggest scent and flavourings business, I can truthfully state that no component has actually caught the marketplace or certainly had such need as pure Oud. While numerous necessary oils have actually been effectively developed in artificial kind, and lots of business have actually produced artificial Oud-style active ingredients, the animalic nature of natural and pure Oud in fragrance is remarkable and distinct. Any perfumer or Nose will certainly verify; pure Oud is unmatchable and special in its capability to sustain, reinforce and extend the great scent experience.”.

The Group has actually opened, and is opening more luxury flagship stores in a few of the world’s most renowned places, to display its professional fragrance brand, Fragrance Du Bois. Strategies are afoot to partner numerous of the world’s leading scent homes to develop an international chain of specific niche retail outlets providing the most unique choice of great scents and bespoke developments for a critical customers. This will certainly make up an option from the supreme collection of 100 % natural Oud scents produced by an elite group of global perfumers.

With the scent market being just one of the several business applications for Oud and the Agarwood tree, business case is strong, sustainable, and nigh on alluring.

Pure Oud. Pure high-end. Born in nature and crafted in France, a really French Connection for the present age.

Fragrance Du Bois Brings World Renown Brand Xerjoff to Southeast Asia for the First Time

“We are delighted to be in Singapore to display our finest and special fragrances under Fragrance Du Bois,” stated Sergio Momo, Xerjoff’s Founder and Creative Director. “I think Fragrance Du Bois shares crucial concepts with Xerjoff in the universe of creative perfumery.

“It brings us terrific satisfaction to be the very first (and just) scent home in Southeast Asia, to host and partner with the world well-known Xerjoff,” stated Nicola Parker, Brand Director of Fragrance Du Bois. Xerjoff will certainly be offered in all our flagship stores, outlets and scent lounges around the word in the coming weeks. This collaboration with Xerjoff,” Parker concluded, “will certainly additionally improve that experience.

At the heart of the Xerjoff brand and all of its developments, is a mix of standard perfumery (going back centuries), and contemporary, handmade bottles. Sergio Momo’s motivation is stemmed from his Italian roots, and his devotion to a time-honoured craft has actually resulted in the solution of a few of the most initial and remarkable scents presently on the marketplace. Momo’s compassion and understanding of the natural world has actually likewise played a part in the general visual, with a mix of semi-precious and valuable hand cut stones, quartz, Murano glass, wood, brass, gold, bronze and leather, taking functions in the succession of work of arts.

Likewise providing some weight to the valuable and uncommon masterpieces that record these extraordinary scents, are the lots of years of research study and advancement in the art of perfumery, together with the partnerships with prominent Italian artists. International and Italian ‘Noses’, carvers and painters – in addition to jewellery designers, glassblowers, diamond cutters and wood engravers – interact to distil, mix and package the valuable essences produced in Grasse (South of France), Spain and Italy.

Xerjoff’s collection – redolent of history and custom, and motivated by aspects and occasions as varied as Siberian meteorite showers and the ancient Arabian art of perfumery — makes sure to consist of a fragrance that will certainly delight and promote the senses of even the most seasoned scent enthusiast..
Working along parallel lines with Fragrance Du Bois, Xerjoff has actually devoted 2 outstanding collections to the enigmatic and magical Oud oil – both provided in magnificently crafted crystal bottles. Sourced from Laos, Indonesia, Thailand, India and Cambodia, the Oud-inspired productions are catching the creativities of scent lovers worldwide.

A choice of Xerjoff’s high-end scents will certainly be readily available at the Fragrance Du Bois flagship store in Singapore from today. They will certainly likewise be readily available in Du Bois’ 2nd flagship shop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, within a matter of weeks.
Xerjoff in Southeast Asia is solely given you by Fragrance Du Bois, and rates begin with SGD 225.

Fragrance Du Bois’ Oud Amber Intense, the Official Perfume of the Amber Lounge at the Singapore Grand Prix 2014

Dynamic’, ‘amazing’, ‘climatic’; words commonly utilized to explain the F1 night race in Singapore. Completely matching the environment and matching is the freshly introduced Oud Amber Intense by Fragrance Du Bois, the main fragrance for the renowned Amber Lounge after-party in Singapore.

Showing the energy, enthusiasm and beauty that have actually ended up being associated with the race itself, Oud Amber Intense is a specifically developed scent for Sonia Irvine, the Founder of the Amber Lounge. Established by worldwide acknowledged perfumer, Sandra Dziad, and based upon the innovative vision, individual tastes and business spirit of Sonia Irvine, Oud Amber Intense has a hot citrusy opening, with notes of bergamot, tangerine, black pepper and cinnamon. It is a scent that exhibits self-confidence and elegance.

Flowers, fruity wood notes of neroli, increased, blackcurrant and patchouli instill a warm heart, and are held together with an amber accord. The melange enraptures the senses, with a surface of musk and Fragrance Du Bois’ trademark 100 % pure, natural and sustainably sourced Oud– provided specifically from plantations handled by Asia Plantation Capital, and of the extremely greatest quality. The mix evokes the warm fresh breeze of the strange and hot Orient similar to a night celebration at the Singapore night race.

“I definitely like Oud Amber Intense by Fragrance Du Bois,” stated Sonia Irvine. I am specifically happy to have Oud Amber Intense as the main scent for the Amber Lounge at this year’s Singapore F1 night race, and to be introducing it today at Fragrance Du Bois’ very first principle store at the Fullerton Hotel.”.

Oud Amber Intense is the 3rd scent in a series that has actually been developed for the Amber Lounge in previous races. Oud Noir Intense, which radiates risk, intrigue and night-time enjoyment, was the main fragrance for 2013’s F1 night race in Singapore. Sahraa Oud, with its sense of best stillness broken by unforeseeable shifts of racing winds throughout the Arabian Desert, was produced for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

“Fragrance is something that is extremely individual to each person,” states Nicola Parker, Brand Director at Fragrance Du Bois.”Nicola continues, “Another distinct element of our scents is that we utilize just 100 % sustainable, natural, pure Oud of the finest quality. Since of the method in which Oud communicates with various active ingredients, and likewise ‘settles’ on the person’s body in various methods, all our scents produce various scents from one individual to another.

Formally introducing Oud Amber Intense to the world, Sonia Irvine, enhanced the Fragrance Du Bois Concept Boutique at the Fullerton Hotel, Singapore, signing pamphlets that information and profile Oud Amber Intense. Visitors checking out the Amber Lounge at the night race in Singapore will certainly have the chance to experience Oud Amber Intense themselves, as Fragrance Du Bois will certainly have its personalised luxury scent trunk at the reception location, where they can sample different fragrances, as well as Oud Amber Intense itself.
Supporting a Cause.

Fragrance Du Bois is luxury with a conscience, and is dedicated to social and business obligation. As an outcome of Fragrance Du Bois’ dedication to utilizing just sustainably sourced active ingredients, the scent has actually been backed by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.

With the sale of each scent, Fragrance Du Bois will certainly deal with its sustainable plantation partner, Asia Plantation Capital, to grow one Aquilaria tree– the source of the Oud oil in all Du Bois’ scents– and one teak tree, with the Plant Genetics Programme supported by the Thai Royal Family.

Fragrance Du Bois Oud Oil infiltrating the Middle East

As the only scent brand on the planet to ensure making use of just sustainably sourced Oud oil – from its own plantations – Du Bois’ developments are producing fairly a storm amongst a few of the world’s most critical fragrance connoisseurs. Hand crafted by a few of the world’s leading and most ingenious perfumers, Du Bois’ scents are unique, complicated, amazing and essential.

A few of the fragrances are created in Fragrance Du Bois’ own perfumery – situated in the foothills of Grasse, Cote d’Azur, France – offering an outstanding variety of intoxicating aromas for its recently opened stores in Singapore’s famous Fullerton Hotel, and Kuala Lumpur’s luxury shopping center at the Starhill Gallery. Interest and fascination have actually triggered feverish interest in a brand that has actually amassed a cult following all over the world in record time.

Although fairly brand-new in the market, Fragrance Du Bois is currently collecting in the awards, after among its fragrances – produced by 5th generation Master Perfumer Francois Merle-Baudoin – was shortlisted worldwide’s leading 10 brand-new scents at the Art and Olfactory Awards in Los Angeles, USA. Customers throughout the Arabian Gulf and the larger world currently consist of royalty, prominent stars and VVIPs alike.

“Given the level of interest we have actually had from customers and merchants throughout the Middle East,” states Parisian Brand Director and representative Chloé Kurzmann, “we have actually chosen to concentrate on opening stores and retail outlets with merchants and luxury items outlets that match our clients.”.

All of our productions are hand crafted, utilizing 100 % natural and pure Oud oil, with a choice of vintages; all provided from estates handled by Asia Plantation Capital. They come to immerse their senses in a special olfactory experience that will certainly assist match their Oud-based scent to their particular characters. In addition, our perfumers or ‘Noses’, can work with a customer on a certain scent produced by hand, distinctively for them.

Current reports recommend that the yearly market for Oud scents in the Middle East alone, is 6.1 billion Saudi Riyals, and Du Bois, with its unparalleled and special variety of fine and bespoke scents, means to provide its items throughout the Middle East, with prepared openings in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Doha currently in development.

Among the world’s leading and most highly regarded authorities on great scent, Roja Dove, just recently released a brief movie on the value of Oud and its value to the world of haute perfumery – with specific concentrate on its location in Middle Eastern culture. Roja Dove’s own variety of great scents consist of some delicious Oud-based accords, and he is so distinguished in his field that he has actually been turned over with running the refinery on the 5th Floor in Harrods, London – certainly among the world’s most prominent great scent emporiums, often visited by numerous of the Gulf’s elite when seeing the United Kingdom.

Company Development Director for Asia Plantation Capital Gary Crates states, “The need for our Oud oils and woodchips in the Middle East and Asia has actually grown tremendously in recent times, and it’s quite as an outcome of worldwide brands such as Tom Ford – in addition to reputable specialists such as Roja Dove – comprehending the value of this elegant and magical component. This has actually resulted in a larger gratitude of its values, and the value of sustainable and constant products of 100 % pure Oud oil, which we can offer.”.

He continues, “The market for Oud and its items has actually grown regularly considering that records started in 1880, valuing at 4 % per year throughout that time, and by 15 % per year over the last twenty years. This is according to CITES and Traffic Reports, and our company believe that development will certainly continue, year on year. The majority of gratifyingly,” Crates concludes, “we have the assistance of leading organisations and ecologists such as the Prince Albert of Monaco Foundation, which has actually played a huge part in expanding and raising customer awareness.”.

It’s clear that Oud and scents produced from this utmost of nature’s components will certainly remain to be taken pleasure in for generations to come, thanks mainly to responsible and liable business such as Asia Plantation Capital, along with socially and ecologically liable scent brands such as Fragrance Du Bois. With continued research study, development and the commitment of academics and perfumers such as Roja Dove, the energy is integrateding the pursuit making the world and customers knowledgeable about and able to experience this most magical of items.

About Fragrance Du Bois.

Fragrance Du Bois is a specific niche luxury fragrance residence working carefully with sustainable plantations in Asia, bringing interesting brand-new 100 % natural Oud oil based scents to unique markets worldwide. Sustainably sourcing the finest basic materials around the world, dealing with French perfumers to produce a complete variety of items, as well as offering custom scent services, Fragrance Du Bois is individual luxury with a conscience. With special scent lounges around the world, in Dubai, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, Fragrance Du Bois develops just the finest experience in custom perfumery.