pascal giraux

Editor’s note pending — every credited perfumer eventually gets a written profile here.

Credits2 perfumes

Houses1

SignatureGourmand

Catalog · 2

The compositions

1993 · other

ton·van·san·jas

Van Cleef & Arpels · 1993

Van Cleef

A powdery floral from an era when perfumes still knew how to whisper.

1993 · edp

ber·san·jas·ced

Van Cleef & Arpels · 1993

Van Cleef Van Cleef & Arpels

The opening is a bright collision: neroli and bergamot cut with the green snap of galbanum, then softened by a brief raspberry sweetness that keeps the citrus from turning austere.