Perfume Review: L’Artisan Parfumeur Séville à l’Aube

L’Artisan Parfumeur Séville à l’Aube is certainly a mesmerizing and uplifting fragrance! At first spritz, ...

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L’Artisan Parfumeur Séville à l’Aube is certainly a mesmerizing and uplifting fragrance! At first spritz, it will transport you to Séville in Spain at dawn, sitting under an orange blossom tree with a seductive Spanish lover! The scent of bright and crisp orange blossom mingles with notes of sweet honey and tobacco. As Séville à l’Aube continues to settle, it becomes more powdery and the orange blossom takes a bitter turn and even gets a bit leathery and smokey. In the drydown, you are left with a luscious ad creamy floral scent with excellent longevity. I can imagine that Séville à l’Aube would be very sensuous and exciting on a man. Because of its opulent gourmand nature, this is a fragrance that I would prefer to wear during the cooler fall/winter months.  – Natalie Cola, The Etiket Insider Beauty Editor

An excerpt from The Perfume Lover, by Denyse Beaulieu (the story behind the fragrance):

“I am in Seville, standing under a bitter orange tree in full bloom in the arms of Román, the black-clad Spanish boy who is not yet my lover. Since sundown, we’ve been watching the religious brotherhoods in their pointed caps and habits thread their way across the old Moorish town in the wake of gilded wood floats bearing statues of Christ and the Virgin Mary. This is the Madrugada, the longest night of Holy Week, and the whole city has poured into the streets: the processions will go on until the dawn sky is streaked with hunting swallows. In the tiny white-washed plaza in front of the church, wafts of lavender cologne rise from the tightly pressed bodies. As altar boys swing their censers, throat-stinging clouds of sizzling resins – humanity’s millennia-old message to the gods – cut through the fatty honeyed smell of the penitents’ beeswax candles.

Under the silver-embroidered velvet of her dais, the Madonna, crystal tears on her cheek, tilts her head towards the spicy white lilies and carnations tumbling from her float. She is being carried into the golden whorls of a baroque chapel, smoothly manoeuvred in and out, in and out, in and out – they say the bearers get erections as they do this – while Román’s hand runs down my black lace shift and up my thigh to tangle with my garter-belt straps. His breath on my neck smells of blond tobacco and the manzanilla wine we’ve been drinking all night – here in Seville, Holy Week is a pagan celebration: resurrection is a foregone conclusion and there is no need to mourn or repent. As the crowd shifts to catch a last sight of the float before the chapel doors shut behind it, the church exhales a cold old-stone gust. I am in the pulsing, molten-gold heart of Seville, thrust into her fragrant flesh, and there is no need for Román to take me to bed at dawn: he’s already given me the night.”

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L’Artisan Parfumeur Séville à l’Aube EDP

Key Notes: Petigrain, orange blossom, jasmine, incense, lavender

Perfumeur: Bertrand Duchaufour

RRP: 100ml – $194 Availability: In-store and online.

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If you like L’Artisan Parfumeur Séville à l’Aube EDP, you may also like: Ramon Monegal Cuirelle EDP and ARQUISTE Aleksandr EDP. Both are full, rich, round, sweet floral fragrances with masculine elements of wood, leather and smoke.

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