From elaborating on the notes within the perfume to the method of inventive a perfume throughout a pandemic, Mona Kattan shares all of the ins and outs of creating KAYALI’s latest perfume Sweet Diamond Pink Pepper with Bazaar…
Harper’s Bazaar Arabia (HBA): Can you inform us extra in regards to the inspiration behind the perfume?
Mona Kattan (MK): Sweet Diamond was actually about capturing the great thing about pink pepper and that pink pepper word. 2018 was after I first began to study pink pepper, whereas I used to be filming for Huda Boss. They had defined to me that whenever you scent pink pepper, it offers you an identical emotion of whenever you first fall in love. So, for me, I believed “Oh my gosh, I have to bottle this and determine a strategy to have a good time this ingredient.”
It additionally contains different superb components like bergamot and saffron, which is actually impressed by my roots. Also, issues like magnolia, lily, vanilla, musk, amber, and patchouli – so, a whole lot of lovely components on this perfume. It’s spicy, woody, floral, very horny, and really daring; I made a decision to name the perfume Sweet Diamond as a result of I actually really feel prefer it celebrates our female vitality. We’re robust, however we’re candy on the similar time.
HBA: How does this perfume slot in with the complete KAYALI household?
MK: Well, she is unquestionably a unicorn! She is exclusive for certain when it comes to the scent. This can also be our first intense perfume fragrance, which implies it has an excellent excessive focus of components. It’s very robust, very top quality and really lengthy lasting. And for the primary time ever, we’ve it launching in three sizes: 100ml, 50 ml, and the 10ml bottle too.
HBA: How lengthy does it take to develop a perfume like Sweet Diamond?
MK: It does take fairly a very long time. Usually, to develop most of our fragrances, it is taken two to a few years. But I feel now that I’m getting higher on the technique of it, I’m capable of work on items rather a lot quicker. For Sweet Diamond, we needed to do a whole lot of backwards and forwards; to be sincere, the perfume wasn’t confirmed till mid-pandemic. It took a very long time as a result of, once more, I simply actually wished to seize romance in a bottle. I’m a hopeless romantic, so this one was actually particular for me.
HBA: Have you discovered in any respect that your style in fragrances, or what you resolve to put on has modified in any respect all through the years?
MK: I like gourmand fragrances. So even when I put on a brand new perfume, I’ll add in some vanilla if it isn’t there, or I’ll add in one thing that’s fairly gourmand and heavy as a result of I like heavier fragrances. But I strive new issues on a regular basis, I feel my style has turn out to be a bit bit extra subtle.
HBA: And what is the greatest life lesson you have realized on this journey?
MK: I might say that basically getting in contact together with your feelings is so necessary. I feel being a founder and chief of a model via creation may be very emotional. And I needed to swap that off for such a very long time as a result of with Huda Beauty, I used to be at all times doing extra of the much less inventive, backend aspect of issues. But with KAYALI, I actually needed to push myself to get emotional, since you actually cannot create with out turning in your feelings.
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