After the Eaux de Cologne, moments of freshness and absolute pleasure, Astier de Villatte launches its very first perfume: Tucson, a hymn to the desert immensities of the Great American West. It inaugurates a new era of highly concentrated fragrance for this refined and creative House.
We love everything about him, starting with his handcrafted ceramics that revive and modernize the tradition of 18th century Parisian factories and bring the art of stamping up to date, his publishing house and his letterpress printing, the last in France (and one of the last in the world) to print books with lead, his eaux de Cologne (like the delicious Eau Chic created by Françoise Caron, 150 ml, €130) and his collection of scented candles on the theme of an olfactory world tour.
Today, he has created his first eau de parfum: Tucson (100 ml, 185 €; 30 ml, 95 €; 10 ml, 45 €) which takes us to the wilderness of the American West. The intoxicating scent of immortelle from the scrubland and sun-warmed dunes, the aromatic and slightly animalic notes of thyme, the slightly leathery inflections of birch and the exquisite scent of sweet amber exhaled by the resin of cistus labdanum, a shrub from the Mediterranean region.
Fresh, burning and perfectly blended, this amber and aromatic fragrance was designed with Alexandra Monet, perfumer, in collaboration with Drom Fragrances.
Its sober and elegant box is made of sand-colored kraft paper, lined with gold inside. A …