Epona (Papillon Perfumery)

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Liz Moores, owner and perfumer at Papillon, has over the years added a lot of beauty to the world, in the form of huge, dense, old-fashioned ambery perfumes like Anubis (2014) and Dryad (2017). I’ve always been a fan of her work. Together with Antonio Gardoni’s Bogue Perfumes, she revived a grand manner, a sort of perfumery chest voice that came as a corrective after so much metallic perfumery up-speak, those squeaky things that carry across a crowded room but have nothing to say.

But Epona now breaks with Papillon’s previous style and moves into new territory.