Atelier d’Artiste Nez a Nez for women and men

March update: I decided to revisit this after finding it in a drawer, hoping that cold weather would be kinder to the previously missing alcohol, coffee and grape notes. No such luck. It's still pipe tobacco contaminated with patchouli. Nez a Nez would do themselves a great favor by stopping the overheated nonsense descriptions of the product and investing their imagination in making better juice. They're counting on their customers having more money than taste.

Sillage: weapon of mass destruction
Durability: outlives cockroaches
Fabulosity: Joe Camel
Price to value ratio: Zero since it can't be lower
-5/10 (yes, NEGATIVE FIVE)

You enter a building somewhere in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. You climb on the last floor. The wooden stairs squeak under your feet as you march upstairs. You open the door to your apartment, there is some cold coffee on the table that you had no chance to drink up before you left in the morning. It's late in the evening now, but it's still quite hot and in the room that absorbed a lot of heat through the roof. Even despite the window open, the room is still quite stuffy. Is there anything better than a little glass of rum on ice?

Well, Id personally have a glass oh white wine, but I suppose in this Atelier rum seems more suitable somehow.

Atelier d'Artiste is a very warm fragrance, very cozy, and very complex. It has so many sides to it. There is the woody represented by vetyver, there is the gourmand represented by sweet sweet vanilla and ripe, juicy grapes and raspberries, there is the aromatic juniper, there is the boozy side to it as well thanks to cognac and dark rum.

It is an olfactory experience that brings the past and present together, joins the art of fragrance, literature and painting together. For me, close to perfection.

A disappointment to me. The description sounded rich beyond belief. On me the patchouli and tobacco were the only notes that really came forward. I smelled like a hippie who chain smokes.

I had the chance to try this and it's high on my shopping list - warm happy drunken scent. I imagined the slightly decadent atelier in which I may share the armchair with the atelier cat. The liquor notes are overwhelming in the best sense, the fragrance is overall sweet but not sticky. Also, the coffee note is weak but discernible; the quest for coffee-but-not-sticky-sweet fragrance for me is not at the end but this is a good progress.