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Inspiration
Rue des Petits Champs or rue Montorgueil, Place des Vosges or Saint-Germain: according to A Lab on Fire, What We Do in Paris Is Secret captures every part of the city, the glamorous and the edgy. The inspiration is Rue Aubriot, Paris, 1975. Dominique Ropion, counted among the most technically gifted perfumers alive, created a scent that makes the secrets of Paris palpable.
Fragrance Family
Oriental heliotrope
The Olfactive Composition
Top notes: Bergamot, honey, lychee
Heart notes: Turkish rose essence, vanilla, heliotrope accord
Base notes: Tonka bean, Tolu, sandalwood, ambergris
Perfumer
Dominique Ropion
The Signature of What We Do in Paris Is Secret
Honey and lychee give a sweet, juicy sheen to the bergamot. Heliotrope and vanilla together form the familiar almond powder of old Parisian cosmetics, while Turkish rose adds colour. Tonka, tolu balsam and sandalwood provide texture and warmth, and ambergris a salty, skin-like radiance.
What our ParfuMaria team thinks of this fragrance
This scent has been one of our steady favourites for years. It opens honey sweet and fruity, then turns powdery like an old Parisian compact and ends warm and balsamic. The development is beautifully slow: after five hours you still smell heliotrope with a salty glow. Its months are October to February, for the theatre or a dinner, and on days when we like to feel a little Parisienne. For lovers of heliotrope, vanilla and refined warmth.
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I usually don't like sweet and powdery perfumes. And this is both of these things.
But I still really, really like this one! On the days when I crave this, nothing else works (and I have tried to find a substitute). So I was super happy when I found it here, since it's really hard to find outside of USA these days!
I get the lychee and a perfect balance of vanilla and heliotrope with a hint of sandalwood. I find i "What we do..." both fun and comforting and a perfect change when I don't feel like I'm in the mood for my usual smoke- and incense-forward scents.
I got a sample of this i really liked it I don’t normally like baby powder fragrances but there something really interesting about this one lasted a really long time on my skin too
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