L’Artisan

L’Artisan Parfumeur is a French niche perfume house, established in 1976 by Jean Laporte. He later left the company to form rival Maître Parfumeur et Gantier.[1]

L’Artisan is based in Paris, but now has outlets worldwide.

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, Olivia Giacobetti and Anne Flipo.[2] The emphasis is on scents from nature.

The company sells candles and home fragrances as well as fragrances.Beginning in 2005, L’Artisan has issued a limited edition “grand cru” soliflore perfume each year from a specific harvest of a particular flower. The creator of the fragrances is master “nose” Anne Flipo. Production is limited to a few thousand bottles each. The price is considerably higher ($250–$295 per 3.4 ounce bottle) and the packaging more elaborate than for the regular fragrances. These include:

Fleur d’Oranger 2005 (Orange blossom harvest of April 2004 from Nabeul, Tunisia)
Fleur de Narcisse 2006 (Narcissus harvest of June 6–7, 2005 from Lozère, France)
Iris Pallida 2007 (Tuscan iris harvest of 2001). Iris scent molecules take three years to form in the roots (rhizomes) of the iris plant. These roots are dried, ground into colloidal powder, and treated with alcohol to make orris butter, the precious pure absolute of the Iris pallida plant. It takes 41 tons of iris root to produce one kilogram of rhizomal extract.
Fleur d’Oranger 2007 (Orange blossom harvest of April 2006 from Nabeul, Tunisia)