L'Eau du Navigateur L Artisan Parfumeur for women and men

Wow, wearing this makes me feel as I've spent a ravishing night with a cigar smokin' and whiskey sippin' gentleman. Tobacco, dry woods, a lot of vintage-old leather and spices. Strange on a women's skin, but so alluring!

To me this scent opens with a sharp blast of incense,dark rum and spicy/woody notes this phase is so potent that it will mask the coffee note thats in there and all the others notes that are supporting the top, however i get the hints of dry ground coffee, which is very easy to miss in the opening of the scent.

After the top notes calm down a bit the very luxurious sweet tobacco is easier to detect although It is one of the main notes of the fragrance Its is very much masked by the top notes which are very heavy to the nose and can confuse your senses. But once it settles down a bit you smell the amazing high quality tobacco, not burnt tobacco but the tobacco you buy loose from those expensive tobacco shops that are found in those trendy and expensive areas.

The ground coffee is also coffee before it's been added to hot water and milk, so you will not get that sweet caramel quality here, rather something very dry and almost bitter and ashy. The leather in the scent is not heavy it just stays in the background all the way through and never becomes to leathery imo.
There are some hints floral notes here not fresh florals but rather dry petels of about 2-3 different flower types so never becomes a pot pouri type floral, this blends so well with the scent and adds a different dimension to the sweet quality coming from the tobacco leaf.

The spice in this scent never becomes anything that resembles currry in any shape or form. It is not the spice you get in Decloration from cartier, that one i will agree is an indian spice market done very well.
This however is a very strong crushed spice added to make the fragrance sharp and to give it a kick.

Once the scent does settle on your skin you are wraped in one of the cleanest and most unique smells you could think of, very artistic smell.
To appreciate this scent you have to get past the opening which can last upto an hour. After that it just get better and better. This is the kind of scent thats quite serious and will be more suitable for the men and wommen in there late 20's and up. Sillage is very good and lasting power is 6-8 hours and close to the skin after that but never leaves.
To me this scent is best for Autumn/Winter and cannot see anyone wanting to wear this scent during the hotter months.

Overall an amazing scent that could possibly be getting discontinued, one of the more creative L'artisan scents in their line what a shame.


Scent 9/10

first impressions: curry, coffee, spice incense. Oh these reviews below me...This is not "just for men", gimme a break. What makes this solely masculine?? Stop deterring women from giving these type of scents a chance on their skin! It's sexist and ridiculous. A century ago, there were no classifications...men and women wore perfumes based on what they liked, not what they were told was for men or women. There is nothing cloyingly thick heavy or suffocating that would not work on a female's skin with this perfume. Ok rant over. It's very nice and middle-eastern-y. It's different, and this smells lovely on me. On top of everything I already listed that I smelled, also add sort of a rum & coke hint, and just a little little bit of sweet smoky pipe tobacco. These are buried tho, they are not strong components. The stars are still the curry/spice/incense/coffee notes. Since I'm not a world traveler, I will have to compare this perfume to something I do know about...this smells like when you're walking down Curry Hill in Nyc on Lexington Ave & the 20's...all the spices coming from the many Indian restaurants, very warm and exotic. This is just beautiful and I would love to add this to my collection someday. lasts a long time as well !

Foremost, I'll just say this is far more a masculine scent than anything. I would find it strange on a woman since the dry-down and base of this is all tobacco, leather, resin and incense. I do pick up on the rum, the spices and coffee, but the other notes certainly take a minor role in this.

This is a warm, rich, well-executed scent that has incredible projection and a subtle and agreeable dry-down. I've just gotten home from sitting in my office with this most of the day, and just every so often the aroma would waft through. I sampled the entire line of Les Artisans, and just as @lvrocker chose this over Absinthe, I too felt the same way about the comparison from the first scent. This is a fragrance that you either understand quickly, or you'll never get it. By far, next to Dzing! (which I cannot figure out why they classify that as unisex as well), this is a brilliant scent. I can't recommend it highly enough.

I find it completely intoxicating.

I would say this fragrance is very brutal. I have no clue how it is set to be unisex. Definitely it is much more masculin, rather than a feminine perfume.

In terms of my own perception, I get a lot-lot-lot of tobacco, coffee and alcohol. It would seem a little bit decadent to the majority. Overall, it's a heavy scent, unique, powerful and intoxicating.

Yeah, I've finally figured out the correct description: brutal and intoxicating. I was hesitating between Fou d'Absinthe and L'Eau de Navigateur, and made my final decision in favour of the latter one.

I like it but not enough to buy one. Many incense and only for men stuff here!
Remind me a bit like celeri with encense hehehe...

7,5/10

Strong civet notes first on, then that fades some and there’s wood, resins, leather and a faint fresh body scent. It’s still body, but it’s not nasty. Dry down goes to warm myrrh and resin. Very very nice on dry down, just lovely.

I just bought it. It's my first time wearing it, and it usually takes me a couple of times to really "get" a scent, but right now, it smells like coffee and spices on a man wearing leather. Maybe a man wh's been working hard on a ship all day. I find it quite erotic and I can't wait to smell it on my husband too.