Matière Première French Flower Review (Aurélien Guichard) 2022 + the Grasse tuberose giveaway

Matière Première French Flower review

For Matière Première French Flower, Aurélien Guichard featured French tuberose, highly floral and elegant, an homage to the diva of the perfume world. Using the costly French tuberose absolute and the time consuming pre 21st century art of enfleurage using tuberoses gathered from his own field, Matière Première French Flower celebrates tuberose in its most sensual and breath-taking beauty, with the signature sophisticated touch specific to all of the brand’s perfumes.

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Les Bains Guerbois Oud Laqué Review (Mathieu Nardin) 2022 + Formes et Matières Draw

Les Bains Guerbois Oud Laqué (Lacquered Oud) is the second fragrance in the newFormes et Matières collection. Created by perfumer Mathieu Nardin it is a tribute to the precious wood decor in the rooms and bedrooms at Les Bains Paris. A fragrance of great sensuality, silky and warm flirting between spicy, leathery, flowery and balmy notes. They intertwine in light and subtle swirls that delight the senses and could be compared with wood’s grain.

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Saint-Eustache Le Dieu Cerf (Ralf Schwieger) 2022 “The Soul Fragrance” 

Saint-Eustache Le Dieu Cerf review

Saint-Eustache Le Dieu Cerf is a perfume of humanity, since it will be a source of income for the church’s restoration work, its good deeds and its cultural activities: thanks to the “offerings” of those who will buy the fragrance, but also thanks to Mane (supplier of the raw materials), who offered the church the first 1,000 bottles, and Etienne de Swardt of Etat Libre D’Orange, who financed the entire development of this project, “monotheism well macerated in a bottle”, as he underlined during the official launch.

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Isabelle Larignon Le Flocon de Johann K (Isabelle Larignon) 2021 + Let it snow draw

Isabelle Larignon Le Flocon de Johann K review

Bertrand Duchaufour acted as a true mentor and offers to test her formula in his lab, but also helped to balance it, so Isabelle Larignon’s Le Flocon de Johann K is reduced to the essential raw materials needed to become reality. Concept or perfume? To the question ” Does this have to smell good? ” asked Isabelle, Bertrand Duchaufour simply replied ” Yes, otherwise it’s a smell, not a perfume! “

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