04/15/2021
BrianBuchanan
355 Reviews
BrianBuchanan
Helpful Review
2
Marvellous
This is what Sunflowers should smell like. It's a creamy-musky-oily fruit, like the yellow pulp of a mango. And with that there's burnt sugar and dusty bitter wood. This is less a raw fruit and more the work of a chef.
Eau des Merveilleuses is an intelligent gourmand, not one that relies on being toothsome, but one that hovers around tasty. It's not as extreme as Angel, which this prefigures, but a gentler more civilised thing that would fit right in at dessert.
(There's a curious thing about the name, it's a word play on marvels - like miracles, and Les Merveilleuses was the collective name for decadent female Dandys in revolutionary France.)
It seems that Jean Laporte was a great nose - as well as founder of l'Artisan Parfumeur - and it's unclear why this excellent work remains so obscure. I've read it was an exclusive, and possibly a gift for special customers - and those in the know.
Pity it's not available, it beats some of Artisan's new stuff hands down.
Eau des Merveilleuses is an intelligent gourmand, not one that relies on being toothsome, but one that hovers around tasty. It's not as extreme as Angel, which this prefigures, but a gentler more civilised thing that would fit right in at dessert.
(There's a curious thing about the name, it's a word play on marvels - like miracles, and Les Merveilleuses was the collective name for decadent female Dandys in revolutionary France.)
It seems that Jean Laporte was a great nose - as well as founder of l'Artisan Parfumeur - and it's unclear why this excellent work remains so obscure. I've read it was an exclusive, and possibly a gift for special customers - and those in the know.
Pity it's not available, it beats some of Artisan's new stuff hands down.
