Fou d’Absinthe

Twelve materials across three tiers, cut by the house itself, which writes its juice in three movements.

The cold opening

An aromatic bouquet of angelica and absinthe opens. The relays add the blackcurrant bud, which Gaia Fishler also finds and which the German page of the house names. The effect sought is explosive and green.

The spiced middle

Star anise, icy, enters into contrast with four warm spices: pepper, clove, nutmeg and ginger. Earthy patchouli carries them, and the house places it at this tier.

A German relay ranks patchouli at the base. The house, in its French version, gives it in the middle, and the American relay Aedes does the same: this is the reading kept here.

The resinous base

Dry pine needles stand against the liqueur-like fir resin. The house adds cistus in its English version, a material that Gaia Fishler and the Now Smell This list name as well.

What stays out

The incense sometimes attributed to the base is never named by the house, which writes a woody warmth and a spiced freshness: it is the house that fixes the family.

What the label declares

Ten entries: denatured alcohol, water, fragrance, and seven regulated allergens — linalool, coumarin, eugenol, hydroxycitronellal, limonene, geraniol, citral. No substance banned in the European Union appears there. Printemps, Sephora, 24S, Liberty and two German retailers serve the same one, word for word.

Another list, sold outside the Union, carries butylphenyl methylpropional, banned in the Union since 1 March 2022: it does not hold for France.