L'Artisan Parfumeur
L'Artisan Parfumeur
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A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Peppermint and rose collide with surprising vibrancy, creating an almost savoury freshness that's vaguely minty without being candied or toothpaste-like. The initial impression is of rose petals bruised in cool hands, their scent merging with herbal snap.
The composition settles into its true character as green hay and linden blossom emerge, the peppermint receding to ghostly undertones. Orange blossom water adds a creamy texture that's neither powdery nor particularly sweet, grounding the composition's otherwise ephemeral botanicals in something almost skin-like.
The fragrance becomes increasingly vaporous, with white musk and blond woods providing barely-there structure. Within hours, you're left questioning whether it's still present or whether your skin simply remembers it—a faint suggestion of botanical warmth that might be imagination.
L'Été en Douce Extrait de Songe occupies a peculiar territory—a fragrance that whispers rather than declares, content to exist in the margins of a conversation rather than commandeer it entirely. Olivia Giacobetti has constructed something deceptively simple: a peppermint-rose opening that immediately conjures sun-warmed skin, yet with a botanical sharpness that prevents sentimentality. The peppermint is restrained, almost herbal in its green bite, preventing the rose from sliding into cosmetic sweetness.
What emerges is a fragrance of deliberate restraint. The heart reveals itself through green hay and linden blossom—that specific moment in late spring when meadows smell of cut grass still damp with morning dew, laced with the delicate, almost anisic quality of linden flowers. Orange blossom water threads through this greenness, adding a creamy, neroli-adjacent softness that prevents the composition from becoming too austere or vegetative. This is the scent's core identity: a portrait of botanical freshness without the synthetic brightness typically required to sustain modern fragrances.
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