L’Amant opens the 2026 year at L’Artisan Parfumeur and marks the house’s first collaboration with Nathalie Lorson. A searing chili pepper leaf, an ink accord that evokes soot and camphor, a pivotal patchouli, a base of cypriol, sandalwood and vetiver. A spicy woody of one hundred milliliters, sold for €195.
A searing leaf, a mineral ink, a pivotal patchouli, a woody and earthy base: L’Artisan Parfumeur places L’Amant among the spicy woodies.
Three materials and their friction
The chili pepper leaf opens, green before turning searing. The ink accord holds the middle with the patchouli. Cypriol, sandalwood and vetiver close the composition, smoky and earthy.
Ink, a material with no plant
The house describes the ink as a synthetic accord with rich, earthy nuances, whose odor evokes soot and camphor. Nothing agricultural behind it: it is a laboratory construction, and it gives the fragrance its subject.
Chili pepper through the leaf
The chili pepper comes from pimenta dioica, distilled for a piquant aroma that leans toward clove, berries or cinnamon. It is the leaf, not the fruit, that opens the composition.
What the label declares
Thirty-one entries: alcohol, fragrance, water, a synthetic woody molecule, acetyl cedrene, patchouli, Atlas cedar and sandalwood oils, santalol, vanillin, a UV filter, the series of regulated allergens — limonene, linalool, eugenol, citronellol, hexyl cinnamal, cinnamyl alcohol, farnesol, isoeugenol, alpha-isomethyl ionone — and five colorants.