Eau des Merveilleuses Jean Laporte 1989

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.