Created in 2009, Van Cleef & Arpels’ Collection Extraordinaire pays homage to the noblest ingredients in perfumery.
Enthralled by its wonders, power and intense fragility, Nature has always been a major and iconic source of inspiration for the Maison.
A true source of inspiration for the perfumers, who have brilliantly created the Maison’s latest olfactory chapter with a sublime collection that reinterprets perfumery’s finest natural ingredients with a touch of fantasy.

The “Collection Extraordinaire”, a fragrance collection reminiscent of its finest High Jewellery works: a High Perfumery Collection.

In 2019, Collection Extraordinaire is reinterpreting the ingredient with “Matière Blanche”, a creative, dreamlike approach that plays with the sensations and textures conjured up by the colour white...
Symbolizing purity, softness, and perfect balance, “White” is a truly inspiring theme for the Collection, whose values are based on minimalism and olfactory excellence.

This approach gives rise to the new fragrance: Santal Blanc

“...For Matière Blanche,” I wanted to recreate the sensation of a soft, caressing wood oil.
Sandalwood, with its creamy texture, was an obvious choice in my mind because it subconsciously evokes the idea of a pure and tender white...
To accentuate this facet as much as possible, I added a velvety note of fig milk to the heart as well as a signature powdery musk note...”
To echo the Material, Collection Extraordinaire reveals a newly designed original bottle: an immaculate bottle in a deep and luminous white...