L’Artisan Parfumeur is an old friend. I’ve owned bottles of Ananas Fizz (discontinued), Mûre et Musc (original version), L’Eau de L’Artisan, Passage d’Enfer, L’Eau d’Ambre, Dzongkha, Séville à l’Aube, Traversée du Bosphore, Dzing!, Timbuktu, Méchant Loup and Bois Farine, not to mention amber balls and candles. When I saw the ads for the new Bana Banana,* with their antique botanical illustrations of banana plants, I was primed to BUY…
L’Artisan Parfumeur has launched Le Chant de Camargue, a new addition to the Les Paysages series, paying tribute to French landscapes…
L’Artisan Parfumeur will launch Bana Banana this month. Bana Banana was inspired by an unreleased Jean Laporte fragrance from the 1970s…
February in my home town is dark and rainy. Smart Portlanders book flights for Mexico and other parts south. My budget usually keeps me home with stacks of novels and something braising in the oven, but this year I’m going to spend a week at a friend’s house in Palm Springs. I’ve never been there, and my brain is loaded with visions of the desert, palm trees, old steakhouses, and, hopefully, a good thrift shop or two.
I’ll be traveling with a modest carry-on suitcase, so I’ll probably take only a decant of a good all-purpose vintage fragrance with a warm-day, cool-night feel, like Rochas Audace. But if I were to pack a steamer trunk, here are five perfumes I’d include…
L’Artisan Parfumeur will launch Mandarina Corsica and Mont de Narcisse, two new fragrances in the Les Paysages series (see Un Air de Bretagne and Bucoliques de Provence)…