Parfums de Marly Castley Eau de Parfum 125ml

Parfums de Marly Castley — A New Benchmark in Citrus Aromatic Masculinity

Launched in 2025, Castley by Parfums de Marly is a bold, spiced, and deeply sophisticated Citrus Aromatic fragrance for men — one of the most technically ambitious and most originally composed entries in the Parfums de Marly collection. Built around a rare and precisely chosen selection of spice, citrus, and resinous raw materials — including two of the most distinctive and most underexplored ingredients in contemporary niche perfumery — Castley is a fragrance of extraordinary complexity, quiet authority, and the kind of effortless, commanding masculine presence that defines the very best of the Parfums de Marly house.

The fragrance opens with a vivid, multi-spiced citrus accord of luminous bergamot, warming ginger, and sharp black pepper, creating an opening of immediate freshness, warmth, and quietly invigorating spiced energy. The heart deepens with a sophisticated, beautifully layered aromatic core of additional pepper, luminous neroli — the blossom of the bitter orange tree, honeyed and slightly watery — aromatic petitgrain — the fresh, woody-green distillate of bitter orange leaves and twigs, with a clean, slightly herbal character that bridges citrus and wood beautifully — and Timur pepper — the rare Himalayan pepper of the Zanthoxylum armatum tree, with a distinctive grapefruit-like, slightly floral, intensely aromatic character entirely unlike any other pepper in perfumery, one of the most original and most prized spice ingredients in contemporary niche perfumery — creating a heart of extraordinary complexity, warmth, and quietly distinctive aromatic originality. The dry-down reveals the composition’s most magnificent, most enduring character: Akigalawood — a proprietary Givaudan molecule of extraordinary smoky, woody, slightly peppery depth, derived from patchouli and prized for its ability to add a dark, resinous, almost oud-like complexity to woody compositions — ancient labdanum — the warm, animalic, honey-like resin of the cistus shrub, one of the most prized and most ancient raw materials in all of perfumery — and warm, balsamic benzoin — a natural resin of sweet, vanilla-like, slightly smoky depth — creating a base of extraordinary darkness, warmth, and the kind of effortless, skin-fused longevity worthy of the Parfums de Marly name.

• Top Notes: Bergamot, Ginger, Black Pepper
• Heart Notes: Pepper, Neroli, Petitgrain, Timur Pepper
• Base Notes: Akigalawood, Labdanum, Benzoin
• Fragrance Family: Citrus Aromatic
• Concentration: Eau de Parfum
• House: Parfums de Marly
• Size: 125ml
• Gender: Men
• Year: 2025