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Kismet Olfactive Nympheas (Water Lilies)

Sale price$72.00 USD

Kismet Olfactive Nympheas (Water Lilies).

Nymphéas (Water Lilies) is a series of roughly 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet, depicting the artist’s renowned garden ponds at his home in Giverny. Painted over the last thirty years of Monet’s life—as his vision progressively blurred due to cataracts—‘Water Lilies’ is an extended study on the interplay of light, color, and reflection on water, testifying to nature’s constant transformation and ephemerality.

Inspired by Monet’s great cycle, Nymphéas (Water Lilies) is a floral fragrance exploring ambiguity, impermanence, and blurred perception. Solar water lily notes hover over lily of the valley, jasmine, and aquatic pond water which, in turn, mingle with earthy scents of vetiver, oak moss, and maté. Embracing olfaction’s ever-shifting subtleties, Nymphéas (Water Lilies) evokes the uncanny experience of familiarity with the unfamiliar—it’s like being in love.

Feelings: Cheerful, Sunny, Serene, Gentle, Enchanting


Kismet fragrances are made by hand in small batches, are unfiltered, and contain a high concentration of natural raw materials—therefore, some cloudiness or sediment may occur.

Kismet Olfactive

Kismet Olfactive is a New York City-based independent fragrance studio founded by bohemian-perfumer Shabnam Tavakol. Born and raised in California, Shabnam, Farsi for morning dew, is the daughter of Iranian-immigrant parents who escaped the violent 1979 Revolution in Iran by a good fortune re-location to the U.S. Recognizing this fortuitous past, Kismet, from the Persian qismat, meaning “fate” or “what is meant to be” translates the serendipitous moments that radiate from lives into wearable scents. 

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Kismet Olfactive Nympheas (Water Lilies)
Kismet Olfactive Nympheas (Water Lilies) Sale price$72.00 USD

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