L'Artisan Parfumeur
Fou d’Absinthe
Fou d’Absinthe appeared in 2006, signed by Olivia Giacobetti for L’Artisan Parfumeur. The subject is the green fairy of bohemian Paris, the liquor of the Belle Époque and its nights at the Moulin Rouge. The house makes of it a play of temperatures: absinthe and angelica in a cold opening, four spices in warm contrast, dry pine needles to finish.
- Brand
- L'Artisan Parfumeur
- Launch year
- 2006
- Perfumer
- Olivia Giacobetti
- Gender
- Unisex
- Olfactory family
- Woody
- Concentration
- Eau de Parfum
Where to buy
L’Artisan Parfumeur launched Fou d’Absinthe in 2006, as an eau de parfum. The formula falls to Olivia Giacobetti, who had already given Premier Figuier and Dzing! to the house.
The green fairy
The starting point is a banned drink. Absinthe fuelled the nights of the Moulin Rouge and the mythology of bohemian Paris, between visions, freedom of mind and derangement. The house keeps the story as much as the smell.
The name says the drinker rather than the plant. The house speaks of an intense, aromatic juice, able to provoke particular moods, and sells it to women as to men.
A principle of contrasts
The whole of the house’s intent rests on an opposition that never slackens: cold against warm, green against resinous. Star anise brings an icy sharpness, the four spices an immediate warmth.
The house today sets the juice in a forest of the Pyrenees, and no longer only in a Parisian cabaret. Both stories coexist on its pages according to the market.
Its place in the range
Fou d’Absinthe belongs to La Collection, the permanent range where the house also keeps Mûre et Musc and Histoire d’Orangers. The format served in France is the hundred millilitres.
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