

The price is considerably higher ($250–$295 per 3.4 ounce bottle) and the packaging more elaborate than for the regular fragrances. Production is limited to a few thousand bottles each.

The creator of the fragrances is master "nose" Anne Flipo. Some of these fragrances are no longer in production.īeginning in 2005, L'Artisan has issued a limited edition "grand cru" soliflore perfume each year from a specific harvest of a particular flower. Vanille Absolument (first called Havana Vanille).The company sells candles and home fragrances as well as fragrances. It specialises in unusual fragrances, working with master perfumers such as Michel Almairac, Evelyne Boulanger, Bertrand Duchaufour, Jean-Claude Ellena, Dora Baghriche-Arnaud, Elisabeth Maier, Karine Vinchon, Fabrice Pellegrin, Olivia Giacobetti, and Anne Flipo. In January 2015, private equity firm Fox Paine & Company, then L’Artisan’s owner, sold the company to the Spanish perfume group Puig (along with British perfume line Penhaligon's). Together they went through more than 100 modifications to develop the fragrance with notes of orange blossom, incense, smoke, beeswax, flowers and musk. L’Artisan’s 2012 release Seville à l’aube was the subject of the book The Perfume Lover, a memoir by Denyse Beaulieu describing her collaboration with French perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour to develop the scent. L'Artisan is based in Paris-the original store opened on Rue de Grenelle in 1979 -but now has outlets worldwide. In 1982, he left the company, going on to form rival Maître Parfumeur et Gantier in 1988. L’Artisan Parfumeur was established in 1976 by Jean Laporte. L'Artisan Parfumeur is a French niche perfume house owned by Puig company from Spain, which also owns British perfume house Penhaligon's.
