L’Artisan Parfumeur will launch Mandarina Corsica and Mont de Narcisse, two new fragrances in the Les Paysages series (see Un Air de Bretagne and Bucoliques de Provence).
Mandarina Corsica ~ Developed by perfumer Quentin Bisch and inspired by the village of San Giuliano in Corsica. The notes include candied mandarin, immortelle and tonka bean.
Mont de Narcisse ~ Developed by perfumer Anne Flipo and inspired by the fields of narcissus in Auvergne. The notes include bergamot, cardamom, pepper, narcissus, osmanthus and immortelle.
L’Artisan Parfumeur Mandarina Corsica and Mont de Narcisse will be available in 100 ml Eau de Parfum.
(via lindependant.fr)
L’Artisan was a house that I really loved, when I first fell down the rabbit hole. Safran Troublant was like nothing else I had ever sniffed, and I think that might have been my first niche perfume purchase, way back when.
I stopped following them with avid interest, though, about six or seven years ago. Certainly, the massive influx of new releases had an influence, but it also seemed like the new stuff wasn’t as interesting as it used to be.
With that said, I do find immortelle intriguing, and the note combinations for either of these sound worth a sniff.
Likewise have stopped being an avid fan, but I am now about 6 or 7 fragrances behind and I should catch up…
They lost me right around the time of their packaging change…which is odd because I think these bottles are gorgeous. Somehow my heart is still connected to the old L’Artisan. I think I liked them better when they were weird.
Exactly – I loved them back when they were weird!
can’t say when i got lost – but likely the combo of excessive pricing and only 100ml sizing was too much.
i still have two bottles in the old packaging though!
Me too – if I thought L’Artisan was its old weird self, I’d be slavering to try the narcissus
I loved them, too, once upon a time. MPG’s Ambre Précieux (an improved copy of L’Artisan’s L’Eau d’Ambre, by the same perfumer) and Dzing! were my first two niche perfume buys, back when I could barely afford them but had to own them. I bought seven or eight of their scents and coveted a handful more….
And then they kind of fell off a cliff, which seems to be the way of all fragrance houses these days. I gave up on them in the late 2000s: Mandarine Tout Simplement was the last thing I thought was worth owning, and even that wasn’t great, merely fun, with no lasting power at all. (Séville à l’Aube is lovely, though.)
I am a huge fan of immortelle so I will give these a sniff if I ever come across them.
The Corsica one sounds interesting.
Immortelle does not like me, so money saved.
I love immortelle, will give them a sniff if I run across them. Not a lot of access lately though, their distribution is not what it used to be.