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.
Gaia Fishler, of The Non-Blonde, holds Fou d’Absinthe to be a remarkably balanced spicy green, whose idea remains bigger than the juice.
Olfastory’s review
The Non-Blonde — Gaia Fishler, June 2012
Favourable with reservation. She wears it often and regrets not owning a full bottle. She hears green and spice in it, cold and pine, with a woody warmth close to incense.
Her reservation bears on the gap between the subject and the result: the Art Nouveau posters, the artists of the century’s end and the illicit pleasures of bohemian Paris promise more than this slightly soapy green. She judges the reproach unfair and places the juice among the perfumer’s successful balances.