The nose behind this perfume is Luca Maffei.Įven though I immediately knew I would not want to wear that as perfume and was questioning the decision to spend even $5 on this experiment, I decided to go through with the testing. The complete list of notes for Ierofante (as printed on the sample card Fragrantica has a slightly different list) includes suede, gasoline accord, nutmeg, smoky leather, styrax pyrogene, golden amber, cashmeran and vetiver. And it was a shock: one just doesn’t expect a whiff of gasoline from their fine fragrance. I think this made me susceptible to “undue influence”: when I got an email from Parfumes Quartana (I used to know that brand as Six Scents Parfums) describing how their new perfume, Ierofante, had been named in three “Top N” lists and offering a sample for $5 (including S&H), my “no-buy” resolution didn’t even raise its head, and the sample was on its way to me.īefore trying it for the first time, I haven’t read a single line about or note of Ierofante.
Very cool.ĭo you remember this? Did you get to try it?Īt the end of the last year, I looked at the miserable list of new fragrances that I managed to try and realized that I couldn’t do even the Top 5 – let alone any more significant number of successes. Not fragrant anymore but a sheer overlay. Can’t place it but that soft overtone on my own smell is bloody good.
Well, clearly that’s some connection I’m making from past olfactory experience. Though this has very typically L’Artisan low longevity when it starts to fade off and meld with my scent it becomes a sexy me but WAY better. Funnily, Jin just bought persimmons and the scent is a little like them with woody overlay. I’m getting some very vanilla vibes, and some cedar-ish pencil shavings. This is immortelle light and if its presence is often a huge no for you then this will sit quietly enough I’m sure. The immortelle is clean, all that gooey, sticky, stanky fabulousness shorn off. There are still tinges of the opening, hollow reminders. Haven’t we all?Īnyway, let’s smell this long lost beauty eh? The happily strange greenly herbaceous citrus is gone way too quickly and overtaken by crisp green woods. Something you’d travel great distances to find.
Also the name, it felt like love as an adventure. That it smelled like pieces of things I knew but nothing smelled quite like it. What I do remember is thinking how differently the pieces were put together. I do remember being told that L’Artisan were trying an All Natural route but smelling its now that seems highly unlikely. My memories of first smelling Cote d’Amour are very fuzzy now, the where is completely gone. Cool! Cote d’Amour by L’Artisan Parfumeur 2009įragrantica gives these featured accords: It caught my eye that this is a Celine Ellena fragrance. I thought you might like to enjoy one of my last ever wears of this beauty together. My decant is nearly 2/3 gone and after that there will be no more. Then it turned up on Surrender To Chance a few years later in the 8ml sale. I remember first trying it a few years later and it was already impossible to find, especially out here in Oz. The results are truly lovely, and we're happy to say that Noir Exquis is a creamy, sweet, beautiful new achievement for one of our favorite perfumers.Hi Crew, Cote d’Amour by L’Artisan Parfumeur was released way back in 2009.
What Duchaufour has created here is not a mere representation of a patisserie, but rather a capsule of every positive feeling one could associate with such a place. As it dries down, a delightful, lightly almond-inflected heliotrope blends perfectly with a creamy vanilla, while a notably darker wood note, described here as ebony, lends a dynamic and romantic touch to smoother, lightly powdery notes of tonka and sandalwood. Noir Exquis opens with a succulent combination of sweet orange and deep, rich chestnut, which soon opens up to a heart of syrupy maple and a true, full-bodied coffee that balances as perfectly against the sweets as the real thing. It was the last of these things, the idea of love blossoming over eclairs and café au lait, that inspired Bertrand Duchaufour to create Noir Exquis, a wondrous new gourmand that combines the mouthwatering scents of a patisserie with a deep, sophisticated, and luminous base of woods and floral amber that sings of attraction, connection and delight. The Parisian patisserie is so much more than a simple shop- it's a place of wonder, where exquisite pastry and invigorating coffee aromas set the backdrop for timeless friendships, fierce intellectual debates, lazy afternoons, and chance romantic encounters.
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