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Mother's Milk by ERIS Parfums perfume bottle and packaging on a white background
ERIS Parfums Mother's Milk Fragrance Bottle with white liquid being poured against a pink background.

MOTHER'S MILK Extrait de Parfum

20% Extrait De Parfum | 50ML

Sale price$250.00
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The word “Mother” evokes primal ideas: need, comfort, protection, nourishment, desire, love, and fear. Fantasies, in short. And it could be argued that the entire “gourmand” category in perfumery, starting with vanilla as the essence, derives from a primordial inspiration: mother’s milk.

MOTHER'S MILK, a milky floral animalic perfume by ERIS explores fantasies of the “Good” and “Bad” mother through scent. It’s an olfactory montage of milky vanilla, a whisper of rose, the soft-focus blur of buttery Orris (from the precious dried roots of Iris flowers), and a hint of darkness.

That dissonant, slightly dark note in MOTHER’S MILK disrupts the simplistic comfort that can be found in most gourmand fragrances, reminding us that perfume is an adult pleasure. 

The slight darkness also hints at the “Bad Mother,” who (in our fantasies) withholds and punishes instead of being a never-ending source of giving and comfort. MOTHER'S MILK holds space — perhaps most subversively —  for the woman (who happens to be a mother) who is her own person, separate from this culturally loaded role.

MOTHER’S MILK: Sumptuous, comforting, sensual, yet challenging. It’s so Mother.

COMPOSITION: Damascena Rose Oil (Bulgaria), Milk accord, Suede accord, Orris butter (Bavaria), Vanilla, Cacao (Columbia, US extract), Musk accord, Sandalwood (50ml, Extrait concentration 20%)

Please check ERIS’s stockist page to see if it is carried in your region. If you have further inquiries about international orders & shipping costs, please email info@erisparfums.com
Mother's Milk by ERIS Parfums perfume bottle and packaging on a white background
MOTHER'S MILK Extrait de Parfum
Sale price$250.00

The INSPIRATION

FRAGRANCE STORY

The entire “gourmand” category of perfume could be said to derive from a primordial inspiration: mother’s milk.

MOTHER'S MILK by ERIS explores, through scent, the fantasies of the “Good” and “Bad” mother. Sumptuous, comforting, sensual, yet challenging. It’s so Mother.

“In Mother’s Milk, I was asked to create an extremely milky fragrance that symbolized children’s fantasies of their mothers as either ‘good’ or ‘bad. ’For the ‘Good Mother,’ I drew from a fond memory: the smell of my children’s heads when my wife was breastfeeding them, a creamy and addictive odor of hot milk and Orris root. The perfume’s  ‘Bad Mother’ was created through the animalic darkness of suede.”

- Antonie Lie, Perfumer

THE PERFUMER

Antonie Lie, Perfumer

Antoine Lie is a French perfumer celebrated for pushing fragrance into bold, unexpected territory. Known for treating perfume as a “living sculpture,” he composes scents that are textural, emotional, and unafraid to challenge convention.

As an independent creator, Lie values freedom over formula, working with brands that put artistry above mass-market trends. His long-standing collaboration with ERIS Parfums has produced many of the house’s most distinctive fragrances — from the animalic florals of Ma Bête, Night Flower, and Belle de Jour to the gender-fluid statements Mx. and Mxxx. — each one capturing ERIS’s spirit of unconventional beauty and subversive glamour.

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