Vogue -
23 Apr 2016 02:47

Small-batch artisanal scents distilled in Brooklyn apartments and Portland studios are increasingly common these days as upstart fragrances compete with bigger, commercial brands at beauty counters across the globe. But before there was a niche fragrance market, there was L'Artisan Parfumeur. Created in 1976 by French chemist Jean Laporte as an exercise in casual alchemy, an unlikely banana eau de toilette that Laporte made for a party at Paris's Folies Bergère cabaret awakened a knack for deve...
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