TALISMANIA COLLECTION INSPIRATION Upper Ten is the fragrance of the corridors of power. The aroma is like entering a New York or Chicago Gentlemen’s Club in 1880. Precious wood panelling lines the walls.Men with intense eyes and austere expressions sit back like resting panthers in patinated dark leather armchairs, their careful dress contrasting dramatically with their weathered skin, the low murmur THE STRENGTH of their voices absorbed into the hushed surroundings. OF WILLPOWER THE SCENT THE SCENT TOP NOTES: OF SUCCESS Bergamot, cardamom, bay rose, saffron, juniper berry No one, before they changed the world, had imagined MIDDLE NOTES: a New Civilization born solely of audacity. 10 000 Cinnamon, geranium essence, men had, one morning, like millions of others, left their leather, peach, orange blossom homelands for Freedom. They had no hope of return. But unlike theirfellow travelers,the dreams they BASE NOTES: carried were larger than life. Dreading no obstacle, Cedar wood, sandalwood, they would celebrate every moment of their lives. patchouli, amber, white musk Within 100 years, they built a country where nothing is set forever:the United States of America. They PERFUMER became: The “Upper Ten”. Thomas Fontaine