The new fragrance for The Vagabond Prince is called Enchanted Forest and it is truly a magical fragrance by one of our best fragrant storytellers, Bertrand Duchaufour. A Perfume that begins with Once Upon A Time…And ends with happily ever after
The best perfume houses are the result of a creative team which works together and more importantly challenges each other. I came to realize how much of a team effort the creation of Arquiste Parfumeur Boutonniere No. 7 was between Creative Director Carlos Huber, perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux, and evaluator Sophie Bensamou.
The trajectory that led a Ph.D. biologist to a café in St. Germain where a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology sits and “Voila!” like a coup de foudre (lightning bolt) romance blooms. This story, this history of love, is told in three special fragrances created by perfumer Dorothee Piot; Jul et Mad Stilettos on Lex, Terasse a St. Germain and Amour de Palazzo.
Mad Madame has this touch of craziness, which she is happily displaying. Endowed with a sense of provocation, she enjoys being looked at and igniting conversations. As Oscar Wilde once said, ‘The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.’ -Romano Ricci, Juliette has a Gun
Parfums MDCI Chypre Palatin opens with a symphony, an overused term that completely suits this occasion. There is forest, there is soap, there is comforting darkness and fizzy light all at once. I am taken to my grandmother’s powdery dressing table, to my mother’s fine wool sweater I nuzzled as a child, to my father’s cigar box. Chypre Palatin smells like none of these things exactly, but conjures all of these things in my mind.
Several months ago M. Marchal told us that the next Parfums MCDI would be an oriental chypre by Bertrand Duchaufour (who created their last fragrance La Belle Helene).
