Research into the brand L'Artisan Parfumeur and their history
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L'Artisan Parfumeur is a French niche perfume house, established in 1976 by Jean Laporte. He later left the company to form rival Maître Parfumeur et Gantier.
L'Artisan is based in Paris, but now has outlets worldwide.
It specialises in unusual fragrances, working with master perfumers such as Michel Almairac, Evelyne Boulanger, Bertrand Duchaufour, Jean-Claude Ellena, Olivia Giacobetti and Anne Flipo. The emphasis is on scents from nature.
Many of L'Artisan's creations are soliflores (Verte Violette) or unexpected combinations which evoke moods or places (Jour de Fête, Timbuktu).
The company sells candles and home fragrances as well as perfume.
http://www.fragrantica.com/designers/L-Artisan-Parfumeur.html
L'Artisan Parfumeur is a world known brand whose original fragrances delight perfume connoisseurs and lovers since 1970-es. Its popularity causes a high demand to increase its presence in perfume shops, yet L'Artisan Parfumeur still adheres to its policy of exclusive distribution, and good reputation advertises the products better than any ads.
Many of L'Artisan perfumes are innovations and because of its exclusivity discovery of fragrances is mainly left to adepts.
In 1976 L'Artisan created and presented an innovative home fragrance shaped as amber ball. Each ball is handmade and contains crystals of herbal origins with smell identical to ambergris. The smell of crystals lasts for about two years, and they can be replaced with new ones afterwards.
Another innovation in the perfume world was Mûre et Musc, perfume which already in 1978 celebrated, then unusual and nowadays very popular, blackberry scent. In 1994 Premier Figuier appeared in all its beauty – the first known fig fragrance, whose composition includes the whole tree odor: leaves, branches and fruits.
It is worth exploring and getting acquainted with each of the fragrant L'Artisan Collections: the travel collection with currently three fragrances reminding of famous world perfumeries; floral collection 'Harvest Fragrances’; and, by all means, the newest entirely organic natural line which also includes body cosmetics – Jatamansi.
Designer L Artisan Parfumeur has 65 perfumes in our fragrance base. The earliest edition was created in 1978 and the newest is from 2013. L Artisan Parfumeur fragrances were made in collaboration with perfumers Bertrand Duchaufour, Jean-Claude Ellena, Anne Flipo, Dora Baghriche-Arnaud, Karine Vinchon Spehner, Celine Ellena, Olivia Giacobetti, Jean-Francois Laporte and Michel Almairac.
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L'Artisan Parfumeur
L’Artisan Parfumeur is one of the most unique and iconoclastic fragrance houses in the world. We work with imagination, exceptional raw materials and visionary perfumers to forge a distinctive alchemical vision, creating some of the most intriguing, singular and deeply personal scents of recent years.
Beginnings
L’Artisan Parfumeur was founded in Paris in 1976 by perfumer-chemist Jean Laporte and was one of the first of a movement of exclusive niche fragrance houses inspired by nature and a desire to do things a little differently. A combination of classicism, avant-garde fragrance creation, innovative collaborations and an insistence of the highest quality materials has created a body of original, sometimes shocking work. This blending of artisanal fragrance creation and contemporary artistic flair has captured the heart of fragrance aficionados looking for quality, craftsmanship and authenticity.
Mûre et Musc
The iconic Mûre et Musc fragrance was created in 1978. A beautiful blend of blackberry and musk, its success was due to the witty and daring contrast in the structure between sparkling top notes and an enveloping warm evolution of the scent’s seductive development on the skin. The first of its kind on the market, it remains a global bestseller and set the benchmark for L'Artisan Parfumeur creativity. From our Grande Boutique in Paris opposite the Palais du Louvre, L’Artisan Parfumeur has expanded across the world, delighting and intriguing generations of perfume lovers with style, originality and that all important French je ne sais quoi.....
Vision
L’Artisan Parfumeur believes that fragrance is an art form. Poetry, art, humour and stylish ingenuity are woven together to create fragrances that dazzle, intrigue and shock. Each creation explores a wide range of olfactory notes in the ideal concentration for its particular conception and composition. L’Artisan Parfumeur is not afraid to break the mould. Like any visionary artist, rules are subverted and confounded. We play with the concept of rupture, a different way of doing things. A L’Artisan Parfumeur fragrance is an olfactory and evocative experience. We know our customers are looking for something exceptional, something that will make them feel unique and individual as they move through their lives.
Living with a fragrance from L’Artisan Parfumeur is the olfactory equivalent of sharing your life with contemporary art; sometimes it can seem challenging and at other times liberating and inspirational. We believe this inventive and independent approach to fragrance creation allows us to release perfumes that are not determined by marketing briefs and adherence to trends. We create differently too, collaborating with a family of talented and innovative perfumers.
Each one of them bring their own style and personal vision to bear on translating the finest ingredients, experiences, chance encounters, journeys and memories into fragrances. These talented individuals include some of the fragrance world’s most luminous fragrance artists: Bertrand Duchaufour, Olivia Giacobetti, Anne Flipo and emerging young talent such as Karine Vinchon Spehner.
There is a fragrance from L’Artisan Parfumeur for everyone, it is just a question of deciding which fragrance is right for you. There may be just one, or it may be the beginning of a lifelong love affair with many.
