Parfumerie Generale has launched two new limited edition fragrances, Bois Blond and L'Ombre Fauve.
Bois Blond is "one evening in August, the time of the harvest", and includes galbanum, cut grasses, cedar hay, blond tobacco, amber and musk.
L'Ombre Fauve is an animalic scent with amber and musk, and perhaps best described in the original French: "Une olfaction animale. Son raffinement bestial."
Bois Blond & L'Ombre Fauve are 75€ for 50 ml; 120€ for 100 ml, and are mixed to order with a personalized label. Update: these two fragrances will be available on the Parfumerie Generale website (see link below) until 3/30 only; luckyscent will also get a few bottles of each.
A third limited edition fragrance, Ether de Lilas Blanc sur Feuillage Tendre, will launch soon. Ether de Lilas is described as the "poetic flight of a floral infusion", and features notes of passionflower, orange blossom, bark, mandarin, lilac, leaves, iris and musk. Ether de Lilas Blanc Sur Feuillage Tendre is 58€ for 50 ml; 78€ for 100 ml. (via Parfumerie Generale website)
Gosh, those first two sound interesting. Think I could live without the floral infusion though!
I'll take the first and third — the animalic amber I am sure I can live without
hay, tobacco, grasses? *swoon* That one will be mine!
Bois Blond does indeed sound like a dream fragrance. Oh. My. Lord.
I saw this on their website, and had managed to repress it–and now, you bring all my craving back! I WANT Bois Blond–and I want l'ombre fauve. But I will wait until someone has tried them; I will, I will. . . . .
Extremely curious about these. Bois Blond sounds irresistible. However, am *not* happy about the short window of opportunity that they're available. *Why*?
It sounds very tempting!
Sorry! But sounds like you'd better make up your mind quickly. On the other hand, guessing decants of these will make their way to ebay soon enough…
To make you buy them instead of waiting to hear about them
Maybe to see how well they will sell to see if they should add them to the permanent collection? I'm hoping… especially if that bois blond turns out to be a stunner. I'll cheerfully got all Jack Bauer on them to make sure it keeps being made if it is the perfect hay/grass… oh, stop me, I'm swooning again.
Hello Robin,
You all seem to love Parfumerie Générale.
But can you tell me who is exactly Pierre Guillaume and his Parfumerie Générale ? I must say I really don't know.
Though he's French, I think there is no place yet in France except the web site where the fragrances are sold (according to the web site).
What's more, P.G. seems to be in Clermont Ferrand, rather far from Paris (sth like the Montana state compared to NYC for you).
However, I remind that Parfumerie Générale was a niche perfume & beauty store near the Champs Elysées, created by Victoire de Taillac (she formerly worked for Colette boutique), but the place closed 2 years ago… I think there is no relationship between the store and the brand. Can you tell me more?
Thank you
ambroxan
I don't know much. I think his father had some sort of industrial chemical business, and as far as I know, he is self-taught. Aromascope did an interview with PG some time back which you can find on her site. As far as I know, there is no relationship to the former Parfumerie Generale store.
I don't love all the fragrances by any means, but I do think some of them are very interesting, and perhaps that is partially because he is “outside the industry” so to speak. As I've mentioned recently, sometimes I am nearly desperate to smell something that doesn't smell like everything else on the market. But like many of these niche brands, I think they release too much product too quickly.
Another good possibility: it is rare that an LE that sells well doesn't get added to the regular line up.
I have just purchased Bois Blond after that kind of first sniff that brings tears of emotional recognition and the joy of experiencing profound art. It is just an exquisitely balanced fragrance and so inexpressibly. . .attractive, I suppose, is the word, although that doesn't really do it justice. I can't get enough; I find myself inhaling deeply with a huge smile on my face! It evokes a time and place — late summer, countryside — and it's hauntingly beautiful. I found it here in Vancouver at The Perfume Shoppe.
Wow, you got way more out of it than I did — perhaps I need to give it another shot!
Maybe, R., but not necessarily. Maybe my reaction was more emotional than anything, and not to be counted on. I just know I love it. I have found that it's not the longest-wearing scent — I'd say PF's Querelle, for example, has much better staying power — but it's good for 3 hours of decent complexity.
Your reaction is your reaction — you don't need an excuse! We don't all like the same things
That's comforting. I like that very much about your site: there are many experienced and well-informed fragrance lovers who post regularly here, but the tone is very mature, and most patient and accepting of us relative newbies and our fledgling opinions. It is very encouraging. Thank you.