Le Couvent Des Minimes Fragrance Sampler - 6 Samples

 Le Couvent, now available in the United States, is under the Direction of Olfactory Creation of Jean-Claude Ellena, considered one of the greatest perfumers in the world. Their fragrances are vegan, contain no parabens, PEG, phthalates, silicones, sulfates and are up to 99% natural.  Offered here are several fragrances from Le Couvent Des Minimes Lin. 

Eau des Missions - Launched in 2011 and now discontinued, inspired by the missions built by the Franciscans in America. It is an amber vanilla with notes of amber, myrrh, camellia, cedar, benzoin, vanilla.

Fort Royal - A vanilla-milky scent that melts into the skin and offers this sweet sensation of tropical relaxation in the heart of the Caribbean islands. Vanilla, Benzoin, Pink Pepper

Hattai -  For darkness, there are red berries stewed in mulled wine, thickly spiced with cinnamon and cardamom and dusted with the darkest of organic cocoa powder. Fruity and spicy, like those dense fruited breads and buns eaten all across Northern Europe at Christmas. For the light part, there is a sparkling, almost fizzy amber-Ambroxan accord that is honeyed and resinous but not heavy. The musky, radiant sweetness of the drydown lifts and diffuses the darker, fruited elements of the scent, making them as bubbly as a glass of champagne. The fruit and spice dry up over time, leaving a trail of smoky woods in their place. What a surprise this one is, turning from a festive, cozy quasi-gourmand to the scent of a log fire on the cold night air. Hattai features notes of red berries, cacao, cinnamon and cade wood.

Porto Bello - Notes of Sweet Orange, Davana, Incense, Cognac Accord, Petitgrain.  Freshly-peeled citrus fruit mingling with the boozy sweetness of rum (davana), cut through with the fragrantly ashy smoke of expensive cigars. The contrast between the tart, orangey top notes and the drier, saltier cedar-tobacco-benzoin base is all the more effective for being so unexpected in a gorgeously creamy, resinous toffee amber scent flecked here and there with orange peel and wafts of incense, If you like lightly ambery or tobacco-ish scents such as Jazz Club (Maison Martin Margiela) and L'Ambre des Merveilles (Hermes), then we're confident you will also love Porto Bello.

Smyrna - A a gorgeously green, peppery rose flanked by a surround system of dry, aromatic woods. The hot black pepper and cardamom give the normally rich, heady Turkish rose a pleasant sharpness and an effervescent texture that lies halfway between champagne and gunpowder. This makes it an exceedingly easy rose to wear - especially for those who find Turkish rose-based scents too lush or too 'jammy'. The Rose is stripped clean of their more pungent, animalic aspects. Firmly unisex, this spicy, almost dusty rose scent is one that men can carry off with as much confidence as women. It is also wonderfully natural-smelling, its piquant black pepper and cardamom notes smelling much like when you crush these spices against a wooden board with a knife.

Tinhare - A coconutty vanilla and a dry woody base which makes it the ultimate skin scent. It's cozy comfort comes from a swirl of fluffy musks whipped with sweet jasmine, vanilla and mandarin into a diaphanous blur--a cloud of gently creamy, white notes that simply smells amazing - clean, musky and slightly sweet.