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Domeorido – :
The clear glass is attractive. Now, just change the cap to gold and give us a pretty color on the label!
pitroma – :
Indecision seems to have informed the creative direction at L’Artisan this year. Rather than choosing the best neroli and white musk creation it was presented with, the house simply decided to release two – Histoire d’Orangers and Sur L’Herbe. The scents are different enough, but easily fill the same niche, which leads one to question why they bothered.
Of the two scents, Histoire works best. With its gorgeous neroli and orange blossom top, and its massive overdoses of white musk and ambroxan in the base, Histoire is sharp, mineral and eminently wearable. Sur L’Herbe also opens with a lovely neroli note – here rendered green and soapy – and also settles into a fuzzy white musk base. On top of that, Sur L’Herbe boasts a pleasant violet and heliotrope-like accord that is just perceptible around the edges. But it lacks a certain liveliness, a certain deftness of balance and movement, which makes it feel as static as the painting said to inspire it. Ultimately, it’s a testament to L’Artisan’s creativity that even its middle of the road offerings are this good.
iwr243bedyWelty – :
Sur L’Herbe opens with clean, fresh, invigorating lemon and bergamote. These citrus fruits are not here to provide their tart juicy pulps, but their refreshing, herbaceous rind. There’s also a bracing soapy note during the first few minutes of the opening, which gives me a brief association of citrus-scented cleaning product, albeit far from being aggressively sharp.
After this brief prelude, Sur L’Herbe soon mellows into a green neroli lying languidly on a cushion of white musk. The neroli here retains its slightly bitter, herbal leafiness and limpid citrus tartness. But it feels so gauzy and lack of edge, as if it’s in a photo where it’s already out of focus, and then a filter of white musk is applied upon. Fortunately for me, the white musk here is not sharp at all, but smooth and tenderly sweet. As it diffuses more and more into the silent neroli, Sur L’Herbe eventually becomes a mildly sweet, musky skin scent with an echo of green.
Sur L’Herbe is mostly linear during its 6-hour longevity. The sillage is extremely close to my skin, and I have to stick my nose on my hand to smell it after about 40 minutes.
Sur L’Herbe is said to be inspired by Manet’s painting Le Déjeuner sur L’Herbe, with which I’m unable to make the association. Sur L’Herbe is such a simplistic and easy-going fragrance, that I envision it like applying more and more strokes of white on a grassy green background until it becomes a very pale green.
Inspiration aside, Sur L’Herbe is a quite enjoyable clean neroli, nothing excessively laundry-like or sharp. Its streamlined character also makes it very easy to appreciate. It also corresponds well with the idea of the “Cologne Collection” and the overall aesthetic of L’Artisan Parfumeur. If you happen to be looking for a soft, fresh, easy to wear green neroli fragrance, I think Sur L’Herbe might worth a try.