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Yauza – :
If anyone has tried the Le Printemps candle(spring), which is still available on LP’s website, you will easily see the resemblance/inspiration.
Meuvu240intitytek – :
I’m not getting as much lavender as I had hoped. It’s very powdery iris with a dash of leather. Still love it, still would like to own it, but I don’t consider it a lavender fragrance.
Moderate longevity, but soft sillage.
939_2010 – :
This is a very interesting composition. It fools the nose because Bucoliques smells more complex than it is. But it also has a distilled simplicity that has a certain utilitarianism to it. It’s a practical, unisex daily driver. On me, I get a very dry floral scent with spicy, herbal leather. Not powdery, not soapy, and not bouquet. In fact, it’s a little neutral, like an alluring skin scent! I don’t know if I would wear it that much, but got compliments nonetheless. This could easily be someone’s signature.
ыефы – :
Bucoliques de Provence opens with a beautiful lavender note. It’s aromatic, herbal, and moderately earthy thanks to the subtle rooty aspect of iris hiding underneath, yet at the same time, it smells clean to me. Thankfully, the clean effect here is not due to the metallic, screechy faux-lavender note routinely dosed in many commercial fragrances’ top notes, but is achieved through a steamy, fluffy white musk layered over everything, like applying a blur filter to create a soft, dreamy ambiance on the picture.
The leather and the iris here are the faithful companions to the grey-purple lavender. The bridge between lavender and leather is built around the hay facet present in both, which at times smells even a bit spicy. Iris also fits seamlessly in the picture, thanks to its velvety texture linking to the leather and its earthy characteristics shared with lavender. Sometimes, when the violet facet of iris meets the subtle herbal spiciness, I can even smell a vivid herbal violet note popping up occasionally.
With time, the boundary between these notes become more and more blurred. After about 2 hours, Bucoliques de Provence becomes a sensual, musky suede skin scent. This supple, slightly powdery white musk and suede actually remind me of the dry down of Hermès Cuir d’Ange, but this time with the aromatic, hay facet and the earthy rooty nuance humming in the background.
The sillage of Bucoliques de Provence is initially moderate during its first hour, and then drops to the proximity of the skin for the rest of time. It lasts about 8 hours on my skin.
Starting from Bucoliques de Provence, the recent releases from the main line of L’Artisan all seem to favour a more straightforward structure with a naturalistic, bucolic style. Here, the lavender field in Provence and the leather representing the historic glover industry in Grasse make a solid alliance with iris as the witness. Each accord has subtle yet rich nuances to evoke a natural sensation, while the fragrance as a whole is easy to appreciate and exudes an effortless elegance thanks to the precise dose and choice of the clean yet skin-like, plush white musk. I would definitely recommend it as a refined lavender fragrance with a delicate iris-suede undertone.
superalll – :
I love my job, I’m a cashier at Whole Foods. My customers mostly women, love chatting about perfumes. I started a conversation with a lovely woman and few weeks later she leaves me a small sample of this lovely scent. I instantly love love it….before I wrote this I placed some of this on my arm and let is sit..I kept smelling my arm and kept wondering…Why do I like this so much??? OH OH it has similarities to SJP’s Covet perfume. Some might disagree. Now its not as heavy of a scent, but it DOES have similar notes as Covet. Now I need to decide if I would like to get a decant of this or just use my bottle of Covet.
rothmans – :
Leather and iris fragrances aren’t wholly uncommon, and why should they be when the two notes complement each other so well. There are many beautiful examples too, Chanel No 19 EDT is always the first that comes to my mind, but then more recently Byredo’s 1996, Dior Homme and Penhaligon’s Iris Prima. These fragrances balance the iris and leather pairing in different ways, with No 19 keeping them light, green and soapy and Homme, 1996 and Iris Prima wrapping them up with sweeter cuddly notes, benzoin, cacao, amber.
Bucoliques de Provence takes a different approach and lances the iris and leather with a clear and bold lavender. This striking lavender note opens the fragrance with a clean burn, in its own way piquant and soapy, ready to meet the powdery iris and soft leather head on.
Bucoliques is, more than anything, a lavender fragrance. If I want iris, I’ll reach for Bois de Iles, for leather, Cuir de Russie. But for lavender it has to be this one.
Bucoliques de Provence’s lavender opens strong and maintains throughout it’s duration. I’ve always been partial to lavender as a note in men’s fragrances, however, while Bucoliques is definitely unisex, the iris here places a gentle hand and guides this fragrance in a softer direction. The iris is flowery rather than rooty, and adds a soft blue haze over the top of the aromatic lavender. I’m strongly reminded of the iris in Hermes Gentiane Blanche – the use here is very similar.
Where Gentiane Blanche has an incense note which wraps around the cool toned iris, Bucoliques has some definite spice, which at first to me seemed to have a slight cinnamon feel, but increasingly smells to me of the hotness of cloves. Cloves are one of those interesting spices which feel both hot and cool at the same time, and this two-toned spice note that prevails throughout Bucoliques also made me think of my beloved Vanilla & Anise from Jo Malone.
The astringent lavender, powdery iris and the interwoven spice blend make for a scent which you can almost feel; the crumble of lavender flowers, dry crunch of cloves and silky iris petals. But the leather note, which feels much more suede-like in this composition, anchors it all down and melds it into your skin, giving such a natural, shower-fresh feeling – if one showered with exquisite natural soaps.
And this is another pleasant feature of Bucoliques de Provence – that crystalised lavender is at once reviving and relaxing.
I’m really very pleased with this fragrance – it’s comforting and yet quietly complicated. I like that the spice of the lavender has been played up rather than down and that it wasn’t overwhelmed by the other dominant notes, which could have made for a much less interesting scent.
Really worth a sniff for lavender lovers, but also for those looking for a blue-toned scent without orris root or too much in the way of the sweetness of purple flowers. I could also see this appealing to vintage lovers, the strong lavender giving its best Victorian repose and in its own way, another interpretation of the blue hour.
Mehql506Unlogrere – :
Finally!!! A leather fragrance for women they can officially call daddy. Also, this is how a human should smell after taking a shower. Bucoliques is a low fat leather fragrance and when i say low fat, I’m talking about 2%. It’s not enough cowhide to satisfy those LOOKING for some real-time leather but it’s the Charmin Ultra Soft quality that will win people over. If you’re NOT LOOKING for leather or expectations, you could very well like/love this. The reviews for this one is overwhelmingly positive but let me add some much needed perspective for those that are intrigued by Bucoliques. Don’t get caught up in the whirlwind of “It can’t get any better!” The truth of the matter is that it CAN get better. That “BETTER” i’m referring to is none other than the mighty mighty Cuir Ottoman which has been ruling the iris/leather empire for many moons. In an attempt to intercept the poppysmic to follow, I will gladly tell the public that Bucoliques is one of the best fragrances to spray on sweaters.
britanec – :
Beautiful! The lavender is very smooth and the iris is amazingly NOT powdery! This is a very soft, intimate scent. Very pretty,
logotip2008 – :
To me it’s a soft, gracefully elegant yet comforting and warm unisex scent, I love it. It’ like wearing smart casual on a weekend in France. I love the bottle and the label as well.
oops40 – :
I get an impression of pale blue flower—could easily be iris—with an herbal edge which must be the lavender, though otherwise the lavender is on the light side. Not much in the way of leather to me, but then, I’m used to some heavy-hitting leather scents. Powdery in a pleasant way, like iris can properly be. Ephemeral, in the usual L’Artisan style, but a lovely early-spring scent.
Kadyutya – :
This opens with a very realistic, raspy dry lavender before settling into a very nice, soft, dry iris (not powdery), which persists through the dry down and is the main act in this evolving play. I also get black pepper and bergamot in the opening, though the notes are not listed. There is some dry grass in the heart of it. The leather in this is subtle and hangs in the background and never becomes the focus of the fragrance. I also get mint in drydown which feels like a cool soft breeze after the pepper and assertive lavender. This is a bit rough around the edges but very likeable, kind of like your country cousin, not the Parisian one. The name describes it perfectly.
Completely unisex, average longevity (4-6 hrs), settles down rather quickly with minimal-moderate sillage.
alla1553 – :
Whatever is admittedly in it, it feels reminiscent of Fleur de Narcisse – and that’s fabulous.
ordez – :
Iris, lavender and leather! Can’t get any better!