According to Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez  PERFUMES A Guide From A-Z, “Timbuktu is probably the first true masterpiece of what, by analogy with nouvelle cuisine, I would call nouvelle parfumerie”… characterized by complete transparency, an unusually high proportion of high-quality naturals… vetiver, sandalwood, and incense that seems quiet until you realize that, like modern sound systems that can pipe music into every room, one spritz fills a house with an odd, distinctly perceptible, but almost infrared shimmer of woody freshness. No perfume has ever privileged radiance over impact quite to this extent.”

 

The winner of Bertrand Duchaufour's for L’Artisan Parfumeur Timbuktu is Laura M.  Congrats, Laura, please contact Michelyn@cafleurebon.com with your address.

 

If you missed my “Rock the Casbah interview ‘’ with Bertrand, here it is.

 

– Michelyn Camen, Editor-in Chief