L artisan parfumeur vanilia8/28/2023 ![]() Over on my other blog I have an explanation of the name "Gourmand Coquin", if you're interested. Someone who would never be caught dead wearing something as downmarket as Pink Sugar can spend eight times the money to achieve exactly the same effect. I don't really understand it, but it's probably a workable strategy. Guerlain has spent a lot of money on high-quality ingredients which give an effect of cheapness, creating a very expensive perfume to be worn by people who want to spend a lot of money smelling cheap. (Excess has been discontinued, but you'd have a hard time distinguishing it from Gourmand Coquin, and it cost about $20 for a one-ounce bottle.) But the price! The line of Guerlain's Elixirs Charnels ("carnal elixirs"), which also includes Chypre Fatal and Oriental Brûlant, costs 165 Euros each, which is (right now) $264 Cdn, $212 U.S., and in the case of Gourmand Coquin that is an insane amount of money for something which is a duplicate of many other scents. ![]() All the scents I mentioned above are pleasant enough in their way, and some of them achieve greatness by copying them in sundry ways, Gourmand Coquin copies their attractive qualities. The nose behind this fragrance is Olivia Giacobetti. Passage dEnfer Extrême was launched in 2020. ![]() Passage dEnfer Extrême by LArtisan Parfumeur is a Amber Woody fragrance for women and men. ![]() (There's rose in here? Yes, according to the company, but not according to my nose.) It's a straight-up gourmand, and very appealing.īut it would be more impressive if so many other gourmands hadn't preceded it, making it feel like an afterthought, a bandwagon scent. Perfume rating 3.79 out of 5 with 166 votes. It starts out with a little burst of black pepper atop a caramelized-sugar crust, proceeds through an increasingly vanillic bakery scent, and stays saturated with vanilla until the very end. VANILIA perfume by L'Artisan Parfumeur of the AMBERY (ORIENTAL) family made from Vanilla, Ylang-ylang, Sandalwood, Clove, Nutmeg, Bergamot. A partial list of things that Gourmand Coquin (the bottle in the middle up there) smells like would include L'Artisan Parfumeur Vanilia, Gendarme Excess, Aquolina Pink Sugar, Demeter Black Pepper and Demeter Caramel, CSP Amour de Cacao, any of the five Maison de la Vanille scents singly or in combination, and, well, basically every sweet-vanilla gourmand that's ever come down the pike. ![]()
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