The art of radiant personal style
from a french fashion color expert
Whether you're dressing for a casual summer evening or a special occasion, the right mix of color and fragrance can create a wardrobe that is radiantly, unmistakably you.
We invited personal stylist and color expert, Hélène of Pimpante Paris to help us explore these invisible elements of personal style.
C'est Parti! Let's get started!
Rosalie Co-founder, Poète in a color consultation with Hélène
DRESSING TO YOUR AURA — YOUR NATURAL GLOW
The first step to building a harmonious wardrobe is dressing to highlight your aura. Your aura is your natural color harmony: the specific way your skin undertone, eyes, and hair interact with light and colors. Dressing to your aura ensures an instant “healthy glow”, even on days when you feel exhausted.
THE AT-HOME TEST TO FIND YOUR AURA
Stand in natural daylight, without make-up, in front of a mirror. Successively hold a pure white fabric (very bright, almost blue-toned), then a cream or ivory fabric under your chin. Watch closely what happens:
If the cream softens your features, blurs tiny shadows, and instantly gives you a healthy glow: your undertone is warm, you have a Solaire (solar) aura.
If the pure white awakens the sparkle in your eyes and evens out your skin tone, while the cream makes you look tired: your undertone is cool, you have a Lunaire (lunar) aura.
CONNECTING YOUR AURA TO SILLAGE
Your aura determines what colors are right for you – your visible identity. To complete your unique look, also consider the invisible: finding the complementary fragrance signature for your aura. In French, this signature is called sillage, the trail a perfume leaves behind, lingering in the air after you've passed by.
Let's put these elements together!
THE LUNAIRE AURA: radiant warmth
If your aura is Solaire (solar), wear natural materials like wild ecru linen or terracotta silk. The golden, warm, and rich nuances will bring forth your light beautifully.
Solaire
Your Poète sillage
Use textured and layered fragrances with rich notes that evoke comfort and depth —luscious La Forêt, silky Nocturne, or sensual Fleur Blanche, perhaps?
THE LUNAIRE AURA: MAGNETIC FRESHNESS
For a Lunaire (lunar) aura crisp, cool, and clear reflections awaken the clarity of your face. Your best wardrobe allies are fluid fabrics in shades of ice blue, lilac, or powdery rose.
Play with combinations of the ideal color and fragrances for your aura. Let yourself be guided by the overall feeling each combination gives you!
Hélène, Personal Stylist & Color Expert, Pimpante Paris