Parfumerie LenoirGrasse · depuis 1978

The collection

Six perfumes, made in season.

We keep the range small on purpose. When a material runs out, the perfume rests until the next harvest — so a flacon you buy in spring may smell a shade different from one bottled in autumn. That is the point.

Oratoire

Rose de mai · iris · white musk

Our first perfume and still the one people return for. The May rose is enfleuraged in the old way and carried on three years of aged orris. Powdery, close to the skin, quietly persistent.

Restanque

Mimosa · acacia honey · Atlas cedar

Named for the dry-stone terraces above Pégomas where the mimosa grows. Warm and golden at first, drying to a soft woody base over an afternoon.

Bigarade

Bitter orange · neroli · petitgrain

A citrus eau built from every part of the bitter-orange tree. Sharp and green in the opening hour, then resinous and a little bitter as it settles — a summer perfume for people who dislike sweetness.

Tubéreuse de Nuit

Tuberose · jasmine · benzoin

Our most opulent fragrance, composed from a tuberose absolute we buy a few hundred grams at a time. Heady, creamy, meant for the evening. Made in the smallest batches of all.

Garrigue

Rosemary · immortelle · labdanum

The scent of the hillside scrub after rain — aromatic herbs over a warm amber base of labdanum resin collected in the Esterel. Unisex, dry, a little medicinal.

Verrière

Fig leaf · vetiver · cold stone

Green and mineral, built around a fig-leaf accord and a smoky Haitian vetiver. The quietest perfume we make, and the one perfumers tend to choose for themselves.

Perfumes are sold as 50 ml eau de parfum and as 15 ml travel flacons, refillable at the workshop. We do not sell online; to order, write to us and we post within France and the EU.

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