Jouissance En Plein Air Eau De Parfum

Grass imprints on bare skin, underwear in hand, stranger's lips, Rohmer films at La Cinematheque Française, cruising thrill, typewriter keys listing explicit details, and secret witching hour...En Plein Air is crafted from pieces of Catherine M's life.

Best known for her erotic memoir The Sexual Life of Catherine M, she also exists in the art world as the editor of Art Press, a magazine she co-founded in 1972. With a detached, intellectual approach, she tackles art, sex, and hedonism, masking a girlish longing to belong. Embrace En Plein Air for an understated scent that reflects an art critic en route to an orgy.

“So; in the end, even words – which should help to distinguish us from each other – serve to fuse us all together and to accelerate the annihilation of the senses that we are all trying to achieve in those moments.”
- Catherine Millet The Sexual Life of Catherine M

Bright, acerbic, fresh. Amorous alfresco exploits.

Top: Bergamot, Lemon, Grapefruit
Mid: White Flowers, Rain
Base: Musk

Jouissance was born in the pages of the books we read beneath the sheets. Even today, stories such as Histoire d’O and the diaries of Anaïs Nin still manage to discompose and arouse readers thanks to their radical complexity.

Their scents are inspired by the female artists, writers and fictional characters who taught us to fantasise and to desire. In homage to them, their approach is inspired by the specificity of women's language, art and creativity.

Alcohol Denat. (Sd Alcohol 40-B), Parfum (Fragrance), Limonene, Linalool, Citral, Coumarin, Geraniol, Citronellol, Benzyl Benzoate, Benzyl Salicylate, Farnesol