L’Artisan Parfumeur Couleur Vanille (Photograph: Despina Veneti)©
L’Artisan Parfumeur’s collections have been lacking a vanilla-dominant perfume ever because the discontinuation of the luscious, rum/tobacco-infused Havana Vanille (composed by Bertrand Duchaufour in 2009, and later renamed Vanille Absolument), which had itself changed the charming – and quite forward of its time – Vanilia (created in 1978 by the model’s founder, Jean-François Laporte). Filling that hole, the historic French Fragrance Home has simply launched L’Artisan Parfumeur Couleur Vanille – a contemporary, ethereal, broadly pleasing vanilla-centered scent, embellished with salty, ozonic and aquatic touches.
Perfumer Aliénor Massenet of Symrise & Seashore in Madagascar (Images through L’Artisan Parfumeur & www.travel2madagascar.com, respectively)©
Senior perfumer Aliénor Massenet (whose work contains all of the fragrances of Memo Paris) constructed her composition upon, and round, Symrise’s stunning, sustainably produced Madagascar vanilla, utilising each absolutely the, and the extract. Mme Massenet imagined L’Artisan Parfumeur Couleur Vanille as an olfactory journey to the Indian Ocean and the unique island nation of Madagascar, the place this beautiful uncooked materials is being cultivated; leafing by means of an atlas, like an journey novel, she visualized “a refined union between the sensuality and heat of vanilla, and a trade-wind breeze”. Within the perfumer’s personal phrases: “The photographs simply began to take form. I might scent the aroma of a Vanilla pod, subtly bathed in Bergamot, Eternal, Benzoin and Tolu Balm, gently caressed by a salty breeze. The entire story was there for the taking… “
Vanilla ice cream by the seaside (Photograph through Shutterstock)©
From the second L’Artisan Parfumeur Couleur Vanille touches the pores and skin, the Madagascar vanilla declares her starring presence bathed within the radiant juiciness of bergamot, accented by discreet floral touches of freesia, and infused with a particular, skillfully executed, fleur de sel accord (named after the famed, supreme-quality sea salt). A real catalyst of the composition, this accord offers a satisfying salty distinction to the wealthy, caramelised vanilla – proving that, identical to in effective pâtisserie, a contact of salt can improve the fragrant expertise, whereas moderating any extreme sweetness. This iodine accord generates a fluid, refined aquatic aura, that runs by means of the perfume like a crisp, invigorating oceanic breeze. This intriguing impact is additional supported by the mineral undertones of the rising immortelle, which enriches the perfume’s coronary heart with its distinctive, candy hay-like floralcy and photo voltaic heat. After an hour on my pores and skin, this impact progressively subsides (though by no means fully disappears), permitting vanilla to get tinted in deeper, darker hues; dulcet-toned balsams, resins and woods colour the star ingredient amber, whereas the perfume feels hotter, smokier and more and more sensual with out giving up its ethereal character (the latter amplified by fluffy musks). The mild drydown is especially a vanilla, benzoin and musk affair, with the salty undertones sustaining an olfactory sensation of sun-kissed pores and skin.
Clockwise: Pantone® shades of vanilla colour, Lisa Fonssagrives in “French vanilla”-colored swimsuit (Horst P. Horst for Vogue 1940)© & Anne St. Marie wearing vanilla shades (Frances McLaughlin-Gill for Vogue 1956)©
Balancing between contemporary, gourmand and lightweight amber, L’Artisan Parfumeur Couleur Vanille presents an pleasant distinction of the acquainted, extroverted sensuality of vanilla, with the much less apparent, but uncooked and instinctual, seductive enchantment of salt. This cosy, playful, light-hearted “oceanic vanilla” is raring, and ready, to please all kinds of tastes and cravings, even of those that are likely to shrink back from its predominant ingredient.
Notes: Bergamot, Salt Flower, Freesia; Immortelle, Orchid, Cashmere Wooden; Vanilla “Additional”, Tolu Balm, Benjoin, Musk.
Disclaimer: I’d prefer to thank L’Artisan Parfumeur for my bottle of Couleur Vanille. The opinions are my very own.
– Despina Veneti, Senior Editor and Paris Model Ambassador
L’Artisan Parfumeur Couleur Vanille (Photograph courtesy of L’Artisan Parfumeur)©
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