Treat her to a perfume unlike all the others on her vanity. Annick Goutal Gardenia Passion Butterfly Eau de Parfum is a wonderful blend of gardenias and orange blossoms.   The scent evokes the fresh smell of an orange grove after the rain.
The bottle features a gold Annick Goutal signature butterfly perched on top of a frosted glass bottle.  The scent blends the notes of tuber rose, jasmine, orange blossoms and a bit of vanilla.   Gardenia Passion was created when Annick Goutal traveled to Japan in the springtime when gardenias were blooming. Did you know Polynesian women used Gardenias in …read more

A special thanks to my pal Teri over at AgingFabulous for the info about yet another Breast Cancer Awareness month product. I had no idea Annick Goutal battled breast cancer.   And the product itself sounds like a nice gift for someone you know who might be fighting breast cancer.   I’ve got a few more years before I’m supposed to have a mammogram but I’ll be sure to remind my mom and all the other women of age that I know to get checked up!
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Annick Goutal Parfums will donate 30% of the …read more

A longstanding niche perfumer, Annick Goutal is perhaps best known for Eau d’Hadrien. If Acqua di Parma reflects the Tuscan terroir, Eau de Sud is the terroir of the French Riviera. This perfume is mediterranean with its bracing citrus and herbal (supposedly mint and basil, but I get more of a rosemary…) undertoned opening, giving way to a faint tobacco and cumin heart (cumin can smell like sweat/body odor in scents like this and Alexander McQueen’s Kingdom) but it dries down into something almost bookish and refined. Another perfume/cologne that I’m willing to share with the mister!  …read more