{"id":53459,"date":"2026-10-09T16:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierreguillaumeparis.com\/?page_id=53459"},"modified":"2026-10-21T14:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:52:35","slug":"10-2-sphinxyness-a-chimeric-fragrance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pierreguillaumeparis.com\/en\/10-2-sphinxyness-a-chimeric-fragrance\/","title":{"rendered":"SPHINXYNESS – A Chimeric Fragrance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n New Workshop Edition - Coffee Theme\n <\/div>\n

SPHINXYNESS 10.2
\nA Chimeric Fragrance<\/h2>\n
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THE INSPIRATION<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n[vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1791797195612{background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.19) !important;*background-color: rgb(255,255,255) !important;}”]Since its beginnings, Pierre Guillaume Paris has explored a singular form of beauty. A beauty that unsettles, sometimes disturbs, yet fascinates. With creations such as Cuir Venenum<\/strong><\/a>, Aomassa\u00ef<\/strong><\/a> and Felanilla<\/strong><\/a>, we have asserted an olfactory vision that goes against the grain: that of \u201cthe other beauty\u201d, a beauty that is baroque, hybrid, sometimes animalic and often unexpected.<\/p>\n

Sphinxyness<\/strong> is the direct descendant of this lineage. It is both its heir and its evolution.<\/p>\n

Sphinxyness<\/strong> is a chimeric fragrance. It breathes night, dreams and mystery; a presence that is not immediately understood, yet never forgotten. Between the roasted swirls of black coffee and the deep woody gravity of ebony, it reveals a dark, unapologetic and fascinating sensuality.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”53496″ img_size=”full” alignment=”right” onclick=”zoom” css_animation=”slideInUp”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row gap=”20″ content_placement=”middle” parallax=”content-moving” css=”.vc_custom_1791560115190{margin-top: 70px !important;margin-bottom: 70px !important;background-position: center;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1594904906368{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”53452″ img_size=”full” alignment=”right” onclick=”zoom” css_animation=”slideInUp”][vc_single_image image=”53427″ img_size=”full” alignment=”right” onclick=”zoom” css_animation=”slideInUp”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″]

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THE FRAGRANCE<\/h2>\n
\n A m\u00e9nage \u00e0 trois: two forms of coffee infused with ebony wood\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n[vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1791816253239{margin-top: 20px !important;background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.19) !important;*background-color: rgb(255,255,255) !important;}”]<\/p>\n

Egyptian Coffee<\/span><\/h3>\n

Brewed slowly in a small copper pot, it simmers gently, releasing dark, sweet swirls laced with saffron and cardamom. This ancestral ritual, poised between sweetness and fire, inspires a spicy, warm, vibrant and sensual opening. A top note like a heartbeat…<\/p>\n

Kopi Luwak from Indonesia<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

In the humid highlands of the Indonesian archipelago, a rare coffee, treasured by connoisseurs, develops in the secrecy of the jungle. Its profile is surprising: no bitterness, but a soft, silky roundness with nuances of dark chocolate, crossed by a subtle animalic sensuality. This singular coffee accord, suspended between roasted softness and an animal whisper, becomes an olfactory enigma reinterpreted by the perfumer.<\/p>\n

Macassar Ebony<\/span><\/h3>\n

A black wood with burnt-gold reflections, Macassar ebony seems to contain an entire forest within each of its fibres. Mysterious, smoky and resinous, it stirs the imagination like a forgotten incense. Freshly cut, Macassar ebony releases rich, profound nuances, recreated through essences of juniper, patchouli, cypress and guaiac wood. It forms the backbone of the fragrance: grounded, dark and untamed.<\/p>\n

Saffron<\/a>, Egyptian Coffee<\/a>, <\/strong>Indonesian Kopi Luwak Coffee Accord<\/a>, <\/strong>Macassar Ebony<\/a><\/em>[\/vc_column_text]

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THE NAME<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n[vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1791816281830{background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.19) !important;*background-color: rgb(255,255,255) !important;}”]<\/p>\n
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Sphinxyness<\/strong> originally began as a concept, part of an internal technical vocabulary born from discussions between the perfumer and his teams to describe a particular aesthetic shared by several creations of the House. It is a portmanteau<\/em>, a hybrid linguistic creature, just like the fragrance it names. It brings together two seemingly opposing ideas which, when combined, create an irresistible tension. Today, Sphinxyness<\/strong> becomes the name of a fragrance.<\/p>\n

Sphinx:<\/span><\/h3>\n

A mythological figure associated with strangeness and multiplicity, a symbol of mystery, hybridity and the indecipherable.<\/p>\n

Sexyness:<\/span><\/h3>\n

An aura of seduction and immediate attraction, but here reinterpreted: not the smooth, conventional kind of sexiness, but the kind that fascinates precisely because it unsettles.<\/p>\n

Sphinxyness:<\/span><\/h3>\n

At PG, it describes the attraction of what is impossible to classify, different and strangely beautiful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2022 OLFACTORY PYRAMID \u2022<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
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Saffron<\/a>, Egyptian Coffee<\/a>,
\n<\/strong>Indonesian Kopi Luwak Coffee Accord<\/a>,
\n<\/strong>Macassar Ebony<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n Workshop Edition on the Theme of Coffee 10\n <\/div>\n

SPHINXYNESS 10.2<\/h2>\n
\n A woody amber, spicy, smoky, animalic fragrance\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n