L’Artisan Parfumeur will launch Rose Privée, a new floral fragrance, in April. Rose Privée celebrates the "rare and iconic" Rose de Mai (May Rose, aka Rosa × centifolia) of Grasse.
Rose Privée was developed by perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour and his apprentice Stéphanie Bakouche. The notes include rose, carnation, magnolia, lilac, basil, violet, patchouli and hay.
L’Artisan Parfumeur Rose Privée will be available in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum.
(via fashionmonitor, diarydirectory.blogspot)
Sounds like it could be a pretty spring scent.
Let’s hope!
This sounds really nice. Pretty bottle, too.
Very feminine bottle, surprisingly so for LAP.
Nice to see the apprentice getting some credit! Gorgeous bottle, too.
ooh. You know, I just skimmed riiiiiiiiight over the “Bertrand Duchaufour” part and landed on the apprentice’s name. Completely missed it. If I’d read carefully I probably wouldn’t be so sanguine about this one working on me. I generally have trouble with BD-composed* stuff… maybe Bakouche’s influence would veer it wearable.
(Exceptions so far seem to be Amaranthine and Seville a l’Aube, two out of many. Sigh.)
I just went to check my memory… I’m wrong, there are a couple more BDs I do like: Jub XXV, Enchanted Forest, and the three original Neela Vermeires.
I love Seville a l’Aube. I hope I like this one, because the bottle is pretty, but patchouli is not my favorite base, and the hay makes me (A-choo!) nervous…
Interesting – this sounds different from anything else Duchaufour has done. I hope it works. Although my first thought on reading the title only was hoping it this would be the rose version of Iris Pallida.
Bakouche did the wonderful Invasion Barbare for Parfums MDCI. This fragrance sounds seriously good and I too love that bottle.
Would like to sniff:).
Rose de Mai is all but unwearable for this rose ho, and I am another one who isn’t too fond of most of Duchafour’s work, but for that bottle, I will probably make an exception.
I wish someone would work that carnation/basil/violet leaf combination up in its own right.
I was just thinking that the notes sound amazing, if the Rose was left off. Sometimes I’m surprised by what works for me, though.
Sorry, my autocorrect is on a capitalization kick.
Consider me officially excited.
I think Bakouche is a fabulous talent, merely due to a single fragrance: MDCI Invasion Barbare.
I so agree!
Yay for 50 mLs although 15 would be even better!
I could be wrong but I seem to remember there being a big brouhaha recently over L’Artisan phasing out the 50 ml bottles. Hopefully this signals a reversal of that decision but as you suggest, 15 ml bottles would be even better.
I am a huge fan of Bertrand Duchaufour. I also like L’Artisan. So, its definitely worth a sniff. Not a huge rose lover, but I do appreciate some. Evening Rose by Aerin Lauder is one of my favorite rose scents.