Artist Cecile Togni and Camille Goutal for the Annick Goutal Dolce Vita collection.
Annick Goutal Rose Oud ~ new fragrance
Annick Goutal has launched Rose Oud, a new fragrance joining the Les Absolus collection…
Annick Goutal Tenue de Soiree ~ new fragrance
Annick Goutal will launch Tenue de Soirée, a new fragrance for women. The bottle was inspired by the color of the sky at dusk…
Annick Goutal Sables ~ fragrance review
Annick Goutal created Sables1 over 30 years ago, and I’m happy to be the one reviewing it here (at long last). Goutal used the shrublands of Corsica, one of her favorite vacation spots, as inspiration for Sables, whose main ingredient, immortelle (Helichrysum italicum), grows naturally there and is also planted on farms for use by companies such as L’Occitane. Sables was a gift for Goutal’s beloved husband, the cellist Alain Meunier; they had met and fallen in love as young music students, then drifted apart for decades before meeting again and marrying. (Grand Amour is another Goutal creation that pays homage to their life together.) Sables represents a perfumer’s love for a place and a man…très romantique.
Sables was one of the first niche fragrances I bought (and I’ve owned many bottles over the years). I’ve not smelled Sables in a long time (from a new bottle, that is) and was almost afraid to sniff it after smelling the recently re-released, tweaked (and scoured) Annick Goutal Eau de Monsieur….
Annick Goutal Eau de Monsieur ~ fragrance review
Released in the early 1980s, Eau de Monsieur1 was one of Annick Goutal‘s first perfumes. I was surprised to see Eau de Monsieur listed on the Annick Goutal website with a release date of…2013.
- Had it been reformulated in a BIG way?
- Was it a new perfume altogether?
- Did a content editor make a mistake?
(Answers: 1: Yes; 2: Sort of; 3: No)
Eau de Monsieur disappeared from the Annick Goutal line-up a long time ago (the 90s?) and has been recomposed by Camille Goutal with perfumer Isabelle Doyen…