Lacrima Les Liquides Imaginaires
Fragrance Story
Lacrima by Les Liquides Imaginaires is a Woody Chypre fragrance for women and men. Lacrima was launched in 2014. Lacrima was created by Amelie Bourgeois and Anne-Sophie Behaghel. Top notes are Castoreum and Pink Pepper; middle note is elemi; base notes are Cypriol Oil or Nagarmotha and Castoreum.
Composition Profile
About the Perfumer
Amelie Bourgeois
Amelie Bourgeois is a French perfumer known for her work with the niche houses Aether and Alexandre.J. Her style blends experimental, synthetic accords with natural elements, often exploring contrasts like citrus and musk or rose and alkanes. She created the Aether Oxyde and Carboneum compositions, as well as Alexandre.J’s Mandarine Sultane and Passion Bliss.
Fragrance Notes
Lacrima Les Liquides Imaginaires by Les Liquides Imaginaires offers a distinctive olfactory experience that stands out from other fragrances in its category.
Crafted with the finest ingredients and a blend of traditional and modern perfumery techniques, this fragrance represents the pinnacle of the perfumer's art.
Lacrima Les Liquides Imaginaires embodies the distinctive style of Les Liquides Imaginaires while adding a unique chapter to their fragrance portfolio.
Character Profile
The Lover Archetype: Portrait of Lacrima Les Liquides Imaginaires
Essence
To wear Lacrima by Les Liquides Imaginaires is to embrace the melancholy beauty of transience-a fragrance that weeps with the weight of incense, myrrh, and the salt of sorrow. This is not a scent for those who fear depth; it is for the one who finds poetry in grief, who sees the sacred in what is fleeting. Their soul is a cathedral of contradictions-both tender and fierce, luminous and shadowed.
The Mourner is not defined by despair but by an acute sensitivity to the ephemeral. They love with intensity, mourn with reverence, and see the world through the lens of impermanence. Their archetype is rooted in the Lover, but where the Lover seeks ecstasy, the Mourner finds meaning in the bittersweet. They are drawn to beauty that aches, to love that cannot last, to art that speaks of loss.
Relationships
They do not love lightly. Their relationships are deep, often intense, built on shared silences as much as words. They attract those who are drawn to emotional honesty, who do not fear the dark waters of the soul. But they also risk becoming the "wounded healer," a role that can be as imprisoning as it is noble.
Romantically, they are drawn to partners who understand that love is not only about happiness but about witnessing one another’s sorrows. Yet their shadow emerges when they mistake suffering for depth-when they linger too long in the past, when they romanticize pain to the point of self-sabotage.
Shadow
Their greatest strength-their capacity to feel deeply-can become their undoing. They may slip into self-mythologizing, seeing themselves as tragic figures rather than active participants in their own lives. They might withdraw into melancholy, mistaking isolation for wisdom. At their worst, they become the prisoner of their own sensitivity, unable to move forward because they are too in love with the beauty of their own sadness.
Conclusion
Yet when balanced, they are the ones who remind us that joy is not the absence of sorrow but its companion. They teach us that to love fully is to accept loss, that the most profound beauty often lies in what cannot be held. Their life is not one of despair but of sacred tension-a dance between the ephemeral and the eternal.
They do not wear Lacrima because they are broken. They wear it because they know that tears, too, can be holy.