From elaborating on the notes in 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 concerning the inspiration behind the perfume?
Mona Kattan (MK): Sweet Diamond was actually about capturing the fantastic thing about pink pepper. 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 once you odor pink pepper, it offers you an identical emotion of once you first fall in love. So, for me, I assumed “Oh my gosh, I must bottle this and work out a method to have a good time this ingredient.”
It additionally contains different wonderful elements like bergamot and saffron, which is de facto impressed by my roots. Also, issues like magnolia, lily, vanilla, musk, amber, and patchouli – so, a variety of stunning elements in this perfume. It’s spicy, woody, floral, very attractive, 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 power. We’re robust, however we’re candy on the identical time.
HBA: How does this perfume match in with your entire KAYALI household?
MK: Well, she is unquestionably a unicorn! She is exclusive for certain in phrases of the scent. This can be our first intense perfume fragrance, which suggests it has an excellent excessive focus of elements. It’s very robust, very prime quality and really lengthy lasting. And for the primary time ever, we’ve got 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 lots quicker. For Sweet Diamond, we needed to do a variety 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 determine to put on has modified in any respect all through the years?
MK: I really like gourmand fragrances. So even when I put on a brand new perfume, I’ll add in some vanilla if it is not there, or I’ll add in one thing that’s fairly gourmand and heavy as a result of I like heavier fragrances. But I attempt new issues on a regular basis, I feel my style has turn into just a little bit extra refined.
HBA: And what is the largest life lesson you have realized on this journey?
MK: I might say that actually getting in contact with your feelings is so vital. I feel being a founder and chief of a model by means of creation may be very emotional. And I needed to change that off for such a very long time as a result of with Huda Beauty, I used to be all the time doing extra of the much less inventive, backend facet 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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