Douce-Amère scores

How do you represent fragrance in musical form?

This challenge is one that Mathieu explores on his 4th piano release and the inspiration comes from the celebrated French perfumer Serge Lutens.
Douce-Amère is Mathieu’s favourite perfumer from Lutens’ evocative collection: sweet and sour notes contrast in a perfectly balanced and seductive contradiction.

Mathieu’s three parts suite reflects the excitement of that contrast: dissonant clusers take time to reveal the sweetness in the high registers, underpinned by dreamy chords and a driving rhythm throughout, ending on a joyful rhapsodie of musical flavours.

Interpreted by Marie Awadis.