Camille Leguay Parfums

In 2023, perfumer Camille Leguay released five fragrances dedicated to energies, feelings and thoughts.

Her name is not well-known. She worked at Mane, signed a couple of fragrances for Lorga and BDK and suddenly went freelance.

Camille Leguay's project has a lot of natural raw materials, not stock ones, but her own bottles in the shape of an inkwell, created at Atelier Dinand by Pierre and Jules Dinand. The cardboard of the boxes is made from recycled and recyclable materials to harm nature less (the cardboard is bad). The boxes have lovely watercolors by artist and art therapist Amelie de Rafelis.

In short, Camille Leguay Parfums is a beautiful, thoughtful, expensive and with these "energies" a very modern brand.

And what about the perfume? The perfume is sweet and delicate, in tune with subtle spiritual vibrations and does not traumatize others.

Au-delà des rêves – mimosa and sea salt. Abkhazia in February. The honeyed scent of blooming mimosa trees cuts through the nervous wind from the sea. Splashes of salty surf, iodine of washed-up seaweed and yellow pollen. There is more yellow and powdery at the very beginning, and in the morning the blotter smells as if I dipped it in the sea.

Mimosa here, which is rare, does not turn into cucumbers or a powder compact. It does not turn at all, remaining a flower to the end.

Au-delà des rêves, Camille Leguay, 2023

Aquatics, lotus, iris, mimosa

La Nuit de Temps Camille Leguay – dry shortbread pie with raspberry jam, vanilla condensed milk, smoke and cashmeran. A contrast of cozy, gourmand scents and disturbing darkness. I don’t really like what’s staring at me from this darkness, but fortunately it doesn’t stare for long. The bottom line is resinous vanilla.

La Nuit de Temps Camille Leguay, 2023

Pink pepper, incense, vanilla

L’Arbre du monde doesn’t warm up fully on the blotter. On the skin I smell anise and sweet black cardamom, unfiltered pineapple juice with orange and red grapefruit, a mineral cold smell of dry earth and a tart spirit of vetiver. All in all, it’s a relaxed, fresh fougere for everyday wear.

L’Arbre du monde, Camille Leguay, 2023

Tropical cocktail, ylang, cardamom, vetiver, cedar

Principe Feminin Camille Leguay is a classic but modernized chypre with the scent of expensive soap, peaches and leather. Juicy fruity Profumo Acqua Di Parma, pale rose and sad carnation Mitsouko Guerlain and feline grace La Panthere Parfum Cartier come to mind. Each scent has a touch, in total it is something independent, comfortable and just a little bit bitchy.

Principe Feminin, Camille Leguay, 2023

Bergamot, rose, jasmine, patchouli, moss

Principe Masculin Camille Leguay after a night on the blotter smelled like I was in an office, and in the office there was a meeting, and there were gathered a fashionista in Ganymede, a conservative in Terre d’Hermes, a curmudgeon in some budget fougère from L’Etoile, a greenhorn in Kenzo Homme Eau de Toilette Marine and the head of the transport department in Eau d’Ikar Sisley.

Principe Masculin Camille Leguay

Citron, lavender, geranium, vetiver, moss

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