Luckyscent Videos: Champ de Fleurs by L'Artisan Parfumeur

I've really been loving the new L'Artisan fragrance. It's called Champ de Fleurs and it was just released this last month. It's a beautiful combination of jasmine and lily of the valley with a fruity heart. There's a pear in the heart and then a grapefruit at the top. At first it feels like maybe a cologne structure, really fresh, bright with a touch of floral, but as it settles into your skin, it develops this full bodied warmth and complexity because the base has cedar, musk, and amber.

I think that deep base along with the juiciness from the pear make it way more complex than I was expecting. In fact, when I first spritzed it on, I was like, oh, that's nice. It reminds me of their classic Le Chasseau Papillon. That's no mistake because this 1999 composition from L'Artisan was designed by Anne Flippo, who also did the Champ de Fleurs. This is a palette she works well within this sort of tuberose-y, linden blossom, fresh, crisp, white, feminine floral. And this is sort of the classic textbook, clean tuberose.

But when I sprayed this after applying the Champ de Fleurs, I realized that the Chasseau Papillon is so dry and crisp. It's a very natural, fully floral, heady composition, and it's beautiful. But I'm kind of finding this addictive, and I think it's actually the sweetness and the richness that's underneath those crisp white floral notes.

I also noticed when I sprayed it on myself this weekend, like the second or third time, just kind of living with it, that about 15 minutes in, it develops this beautiful quality of the air after it's rained, a sort of fresh, ozonic quality. And it might be from the musk note, or it might be the cedar, working with the grapefruit, but it gave it such a bright, crisp top, while it was also growing warmer