Category: L’Artisan Parfumeur
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Dzongkha by L’Artisan Parfumeur
It seems plain to me that certain noses have an aptitude for certain styles and notes. When it comes to narrative-in-scent, it is apparent Ellena and Duchaufour are particularly regarded for their poetic style. Duchaufour, along with Ellena, is not only able to demonstrate potent transparency, but able to effectively situate…
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Safran Troublant by L’Artisan Parfumeur
Increasingly assuming a technical perspective towards fragrant criticism, Giacobetti’s Safran Troublant for L’Artisan Parfumeur ticks all of the boxes I look for in a technically good and sound perfume. The name a perfume contains gives wearers a theme and trajectory to following from the first spray. In my mind, naming…
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Poivre Piquant by L’Artisan Parfumeur
Les Epices de la Passion. The passion of spices. Take the substantial bite of spice, ranging from its vegetal rawness and spicy rush and taper it into a slim profile. A vertical rendering of spice within very tight borders. Within this substantial olfactory breadth of pepper is pleasing laconic harmony. Spice held…
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Tea for Two by L’Artisan Parfumeur
Olivia Giacobetti fascinates me immensely. Density within a perfume seems like an odd idea, but compositions between different perfumers have a different sense of weight to them. Giacobetti, to me, is a master of contrasts, juxtaposition, and the oxymoronic. In reference to her other L’Artisan works, Tea for Two plays…
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Timbuktu by L’Artisan Parfumeur
In philosophy, there is a concept known as the “Theory of Forms”. It is a relatively ingenious notion, with an expected sense of enigma also. This theory was postulated by Plato – who believed that there are two worlds; one that exists on a sensuous and material level, and another on…
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