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Gdańsk is a beautiful and memorable city on the Baltic – famed for its amber and its intrepid history of seafaring. Gdańsk is an impression of the baltic; the freedom of the open sea married with amber, the gold of the shoreline, forests, city, tobacco traders & tanneries. In perfume-making amber (the golden fossilised plant resin) is not actually used. Amber is a style of fragrance, composed with a number of ingredients such as labdanum, benzoin and vanilla. GALLIVANT's twist on this amber fantasy is to marry it with ambergris – of sperm whale fame, found washed up on shorelines – another mysterious and intriguing material, with which amber is often confused. Gallivant use a natural plant based alternative for ambergris. 

Gdańsk, the perfume, is an exploration of mysterious ambergris, of sperm whale fame, and the fantasy accord we know as amber. Warm and spicy in the opening, with plum, honey, cardamom, nutmeg and saffron. A rich, woody heart with leather notes, cistus absolute, sustainable sandalwood oil from New Caledonia, patchouli, and incense resinoid – with a light touch of rose. And a deep, earthy, smoky ambery base of tobacco absolute, cypriol, styrax (liquidambar), vanilla, musks and ambergris. Made in Great Britain.

Saison is an official Australian stockist of GALLIVANT.

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