Best fragrances: Perfume quintessence with le labo

Le Labo creates tailor made, on the spot perfumes for its clients. Perfumes are built around a main ingredient (harvested in Grasse), following your tastes and preferences. Once you’ve selected the main essence, the perfume is created from that main ingredient, with a choice between Bergamot, Rose, Vetiver, Neroli, Orange blossom, Patchouli, Iris, Jasmine, Labdanum, Agarwood, Sandalwood, Ylang-Ylang, Lily… Your name and the list of essences is featured on the bottle label. Once you have get your personalized perfume, you can also select existing fragrances. Since its launch in New York in 2006, Le Labo has been creating an exclusive fragrance for each new shop opening. Paris has its Vanilla 44, which is not to be found elsewhere, neither in the other boutiques, nor on the web.

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