Hi Crew, Cote d’Amour byL’Artisan Parfumeur was released way back in 2009. I remember first trying it a few years later and it was already impossible to find, especially out here in Oz. Then it turned up on Surrender To Chance a few years later in the 8ml sale. So I bought some. My decant is nearly 2/3 gone and after that there will be no more. I thought you might like to enjoy one of my last ever wears of this beauty together.
It caught my eye that this is a Celine Ellena fragrance. Cool!
Cote d’Amour by L’Artisan Parfumeur 2009
Fragrantica gives these featured accords:
Top: Rosemary Grapefruit Tangerine
Heart: Immortelle Cypress Rose
Base: Pine Woodsy Notes Laburnum
My memories of first smelling Cote d’Amour are very fuzzy now, the where is completely gone. I do remember being told that L’Artisan were trying an All Natural route but smelling its now that seems highly unlikely. What I do remember is thinking how differently the pieces were put together. That it smelled like pieces of things I knew but nothing smelled quite like it. Also the name, it felt like love as an adventure. Something you’d travel great distances to find. Haven’t we all?
Anyway, let’s smell this long lost beauty eh? The happily strange greenly herbaceous citrus is gone way too quickly and overtaken by crisp green woods. There are still tinges of the opening, hollow reminders. The immortelle is clean, all that gooey, sticky, stanky fabulousness shorn off. It’s still recognisable but barely. This is immortelle light and if its presence is often a huge no for you then this will sit quietly enough I’m sure. I’m getting some very vanilla vibes, and some cedar-ish pencil shavings. Funnily, Jin just bought persimmons and the scent is a little like them with woody overlay.
Though this has very typically L’Artisan low longevity when it starts to fade off and meld with my scent it becomes a sexy me but WAY better. So manly. Well, clearly that’s some connection I’m making from past olfactory experience. Can’t place it but that soft overtone on my own smell is bloody good. Not fragrant anymore but a sheer overlay. Very cool.
Do you remember this? Did you get to try it?
Portia x
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I had a bottle of this many years ago. I remember liking it, but not enough to make a serious dent in the bottle, so I swapped/sold it. I’m not really a fresh scent person but I think I would appreciate this more than I did then.
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Hey TaraC,
Yeah, I hear you.
It seems that it took me a long while to come back to the simple good stuff.
Portia xx
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I didn’t know this one, but it sounds like you do quite well with drydowns that become “your skin but better.” I love persimmons – just need to make sure they’re properly ripe before biting into them!
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Hi Nose Prose,
With things so short lived at the fragrant end it’s nice if there’s a soft overlay that I can still smell. Usually I become nose blind. So I always mention if it still smells to me.
Jin LOVES persimmons. They’re currently in season and he has been eating them peeled and cut in quarters. I’m not a fan of the fruit but like the fragrance in perfume.
Portia xx
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Never got my nose on much L’AP prior to having disposable income (read the kids left home)! This passed me by but does sound like I would have enjoyed it.
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HA! Kids seem to be a drain on all forms of life: money, sleep, mental health, travel ability. etc etc etc.
Yeah, you might have enjoyed this Alityke,
Portia xx
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I did get to try it, and I think I quite liked it, but my memory is very hazy – on this as on so many things these days!
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HA! Yes, the problem with trying so much is that we forget anything that wasn’t unbelievably stellar Vanessa.
Also, when we go and try a whole house over an hour only a couple stand out.
Portia x
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I actually have a bottle of this laying around somewhere in my collection
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