L'Artisan Parfumeur is a French niche perfume house owned by

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company from Spain, which also owns British perfume house

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History

L’Artisan Parfumeur was established in 1976 by Jean Laporte. In 1982, he left the company, going on to form rival Maître Parfumeur et Gantier in 1988. L'Artisan is based in Paris—the original store opened on Rue de Grenelle in 1979—but now has outlets worldwide. L’Artisan's 2012 release Seville à l’aube was the subject of the book '' The Perfume Lover'', a memoir by Denyse Beaulieu describing her collaboration with French perfumer

Bertrand Duchaufour Bertrand Duchaufour () is a French perfumer. He has had a prolific career, beginning in Grasse at Lautier Florasynth and continuing for a number of fragragrance firms as well as working independently and as the house perfumer for L'Artisan Parfumeu ...

to develop the scent. Together they went through more than 100 modifications to develop the fragrance with notes of orange blossom, incense, smoke, beeswax, flowers and musk. In January 2015,

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firm Fox Paine & Company, then L’Artisan's owner, sold the company to the Spanish perfume group

(along with British perfume line

Products

It specialises in unusual fragrances, working with master perfumers such as Michel Almairac,

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, Dora Baghriche-Arnaud, Elisabeth Maier, Karine Vinchon, Fabrice Pellegrin,

Olivia Giacobetti Olivia Giacobetti (born 1966) is a French perfumer. She has an independent line called Iunx and has also created fragrances for Diptyque, L'Artisan Parfumeur, Guerlain, and Hermès, among other lines. She is particularly known for a refined styl ...

, and Anne Flipo. The emphasis is on scents from nature. The company sells candles and home fragrances as well as fragrances.

Perfumes

Fragrances (with date of release): ;1978: * Vetiver * Vanilia * Tubéreuse * Santal * Mûre et Musc * L'Eau d'Ambre ;1979: * Patchouli * L'Eau du Navigateur ;1982: * La Haie Fleurie du Hameau * Les Hesperédés de la Grande Sierre ;1984: * Bouton d'Or ;1985: * Orchidée Blanc * L'Eau du Caporal ;1989: * Alchimie Pourpre * Eau des Merveilleuses ;1990: * Riviéra Palace ;1992: * Mimosa Pour Moi ;1993: * Voleur de Roses * Mûre et Musc Extrême * L'Eau de L'Artisan ;1994: * Premier Figuier ;1996: * Thé Pour un Été * Drôle de Rose ;1997: * Méchant Loup * L'Eau du Floriste ;1998: * Navegar * Sautes d'Humeur: A Rire * Sautes d'Humeur: Reveuse * Sautes d'Humeur: A Rien * Sautes d'Humeur: Jalouse * Sautes d'Humeur: Massacrante ;1999: * Passage d'Enfer * La Chasse aux Papillons * Dzing! ;2000: * Tea for Two * Jacinthe des Bois * Oeillet Sauvage * Verte Violette * Fleur de Carotte ;2001: * Ambre Extrême * Framboise Tralala * Une Bouquet en Mai * Thé des Sables ;2002: * Safran Troublant * Poivre Piquant * Piment Brûlant * Patchouli Patch ;2003: * Bois Farine * Premier Figuier Extrême * Un Zeste D'Été ;2004: * Ananas Fizz * Jour de Fête * Timbuktu * Eau de Printemps ;2005: * La Chasse aux Papillons Extrême * Extrait de Songes * Ambroisie Ararat * Fleur d'Oranger 2005 ;2006: * Dzongkha * Fleur de Narcisse 2006 * Fou d'Absinthe * Mandarine Tout Simplement * L'Été en Douce ;2007: * L'Eau de Jatamansi * Iris Pallida 2007 * Fleur d'Oranger 2007 * L'Echange ;2008: * Fleur de Liane * Aedes de Venustas * Mûre et Musc Extrait ;2009: * Côte d'Amour * Vanille Absolument (first called Havana Vanille) * Al Oudh ;2010: * Nuit de Tubéreuse * Coeur de Vetiver Sacré * Traversée du Bosphore ;2011: * Fleur d'Oranger 2011 * Mon Numero series (1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10) * Batucada ;2012: * Séville à L'Aube ;2013: * Caligna eau de parfum * Amour Nocturne * Deliria * Skin on Skin ;2014: * Haute Voltige * Rappelle-Toi * Onde Sensuelle ;2016: * Bucoliques de Provence * Arcana Rosa 9 * Venenum 32 * Tenebrae 26 * Violaceum 2 * Glacialis Terra * Mirabilis 60 * Bucoliques de Provence ;2017: * Un Air de Bretagne * Histoire d'Orangers * Sur L'Herbe * Au Bord de L'eau ;2018: * Mont de Narcisse * Mandarina Corsica * Champ de Fleurs * Champ de Baies * L'Eau de L'Artisan ;2019: * Le Chant de Camargue * Bana Banana ;2020: * Couleur Vanille * Passage d'Enfer Extrême ;2021: * Ode à l'Oudh * Légendes du Cèdre * Fables d'Orient * Contes du Levant * Bois des Sables * Crepusculum Mirabile 63 * Obscuratio 25 ;2022: * Soleil de Provence * Abyssae 33 * Musc Amarante * Cédrat Céruse * Vétiver Écarlate * Tonka Blanc * Iris de Gris * Mémoire de Roses ;2023: * Cuir Grenat * À Fleur de Pêche ;2024: * Il Était Un Bois Some of these fragrances are no longer in production.

Limited editions

Beginning in 2005, L'Artisan has issued a limited edition "grand cru" soliflore perfume each year from a specific harvest of a particular flower. The creator of the fragrances is master "nose" Anne Flipo. Production is limited to a few thousand bottles each. The price is considerably higher ($250–$295 per 3.4 ounce bottle) and the packaging more elaborate than for the regular fragrances. These include: * Fleur d'Oranger 2005 (Orange blossom harvest of April 2004 from Nabeul, Tunisia) * Fleur de Narcisse 2006 (Narcissus harvest of June 6–7, 2005 from Lozère, France) * Iris Pallida 2007 (Tuscan iris harvest of 2001). Iris scent molecules take three years to form in the roots (rhizomes) of the iris plant. These roots are dried, ground into colloidal powder, and treated with alcohol to make orris butter, the precious pure absolute of the ''

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'' plant. It takes 41 tons of iris root to produce one kilogram of rhizomal extract. * Fleur d'Oranger 2007 (Orange blossom harvest of April 2006 from Nabeul, Tunisia)

References

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