With a name like What We Do In Paris Is Secret by A Lab On Fire,¹ you might expect some esoteric little niche scent that will horrify your co-workers and create havoc and dismay in the line at the grocery store, but nothing could be farther from the truth. What we’ve got here, at the most basic level, is an easy to wear and easy to love sweet gourmand.

A Lab on Fire is a sub- or sister-brand of S-Perfume, and their mission appears unchanged: collaborate with famous perfumers (in this case, Dominique Ropion), work on a small scale, and emphasize the juice over the packaging (What We Do is housed in a plain lab bottle with a smear of black paint and a label, and there’s a ziploc bag instead of a box; see image below).²

What We Do In Paris opens on honeyed citrus, bright, sharp and sweet. It takes on a dessert vibe almost immediately, with first sheer rose…

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