The winter solstice is at the heart of every conversation, stirring the imagination of great minds. Leading thinkers of the last century, masterful painters, and renowned composers alike have ceaselessly portrayed winter as a protagonist in its own right. Poems, paintings, photographs, scores… so many ways to honour – in words, notes, and colours - the season of the moment and its thousand faces. Let your ears acclimatise to the rhythms of the season, which some composers have masterfully embraced with attentiveness and reverence: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his symphony No. 1 “Winter Dreams”, Claude Debussy and his piano score “La Neige danse”, Émile Waldteufel and his waltz in homage to “The Skaters” on the Seine.   

This beautiful winter, a character of enigmatic temperament, a distinguished presence, and a singular scent, visits us once a year, its loyalty owed to the steady rhythm of the seasons. A cold and elusive beauty that must be tamed to be understood, stirring both passion and discontent in equal measure. Its slender silhouette soars like an immaculate, pristine horizon, bounded only by the first budding blossoms of spring. Undeniably icy, its scent nonetheless weaves in warm notes that hover delicately somewhere between nostalgia, comfort, and intimacy.