Les Eaux Primordiales · Arnaud Poulain

Couleur Primaire

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Les Eaux Primordiales asks about $212 for 100 ml
50 mlabout $145
100 mlabout $212

VersionEau de Parfum

A fizzy, laundry-fresh sparkle and juicy pear over jasmine, peony and rose, settling onto white musk and ambergris-like woods.

Les Eaux Primordiales says

You’ll smell aldehydes, pear, jasmine, peony, rose, White Musks and Ambroxan.

More from Les Eaux Primordiales’s description

It also mentions Musk (freshly laundered linen), Pear sorbet and Musk aldehydes.

The house’s page

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The drawn Couleur Primaire bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Couleur Primaire’s scent picture, a draft: aldehydes, pear, jasmine, peony, rose, white musks drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Couleur Primaire, when you spray it: Aldehydes, Pear, Sweet orange

As it settlesheart notes

Couleur Primaire, as it settles: Jasmine, Peony, Rose

What staysdry-down notes

Couleur Primaire, what stays: White musks, Ambroxan (ambergris), Musk aldehydes, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)

What’s inside it

What Les Eaux Primordiales names

AldehydesPearJasminePeonyRoseWhite MusksAmbroxan (ambergris)Pear sorbetMusk aldehydes

What the label names

8 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus4 florals1 woods1 musks

Citrus2

Bitter orange oilLimonene

Florals4

Benzyl salicylateCitronellolGeraniol (rose)Rose ketone-3

Woods1

Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)

Musks1

Galaxolide (musk)
2 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell2

AlcoholWater

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Replica Springtime in a ParkMaison Margiela · shares pear, jasmine, rose, ambergris and 1 more$170 for 100 ml · about the same as Couleur Primaire’s about $212
Fleur NarcotiqueEx Nihilo · shares jasmine, peony, rose, clean linen and 1 more$385 for 100 ml · about twice Couleur Primaire’s about $212
Mon ParisYSL · shares pear, jasmine, peony, clean linen and 1 more$162 for 90 ml · about the same as Couleur Primaire’s about $212
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.