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While Annick Goutal's first passion was as a musician, the pianist also worked as a model and found a calling in creating fragrances. Goutal's interest in the world of fragrances came when she was working with perfumers to create a new facial cream, but she found perfumes to be more interesting. Her first fragrance collection, Eau de Monsieur, was launched in 1980. She opened her first shop in Paris the same year. Free Tomtom One 3rd Edition Voices Carry. One of the design house's most popular fragrances, Eau d'Hadrien, was released in 1981 and blends fresh citrus notes in scents for both men and women. The release of Gardenia Passion in 1989 was also a hit for the design house, and popularity continued to grow in the United States as retailers such as Neiman Marcus and Saks picked up Goutal's fragrance lines.

The design house released the floral Grand Armour, citrusy Eau du Sud, fruity Petite Cherie and delicate Ce Soir Ou Jamais in the late 1990s. Following a long battle with cancer, Annick Goutal passed away in 1999. Her daughter Camille and fragrance collaborator Isabelle Doyen carried on Annick's legacy and are the in-house perfumers at the Annick Goutal House.

The design house continues to focus on four core values: knowledge of French perfumery, emotion, excellence and the French art of living. In 2013, the Annick Goutal House redesigned its products into nine collections: the Feminine, the Masculine, the Butterfly Bottles, the Splendide, the Home, the Bath & Beauty, the Generous, the Soliflores and the Colognes.

Mandragore is the latest fragrance release from the line. It was developed by her daughter Camille in collaboration with, the house nose.

Mandragore is, as far as I know, the first fragrance to feature the scent of mandrake, a Eurasian plant with purple flowers and a forked root, long thought to have magical powers. The other notes include bergamot, black pepper, ginger, spearmint, star anise, boxwood, and sage leaf. Mandragore starts out with dense bergamot and spice notes. The pepper, anise, and ginger are all distinct. After a few minutes, the mandrake (or what I assume to be the mandrake, having never smelled one before) arrives, along with a little tinge of mint. It smells green, and sort of vegetal, and there are definite herbal-woody undertones that are probably from the boxwood. The men’s bottle (the square one shown above) is one of the nicest I’ve seen lately, so I really wanted to love Mandragore.

And I do rather like it in the early stages. It is a refreshing, summery unisex fragrance, and has a nice kick from the spices.

Unfortunately it faded very quickly on me, and what was left after 45 minutes was less interesting — just a light, vaguely green smell with a hint of menthol. For buying information, see the listing for. Baikal Izh 27 Manualidades there. (see review below) Another update: an interesting snippet from an, in which she talks about the inspiration for Mandragore: I have always been a fan of folklore and I adore Harry Potter. It reminded me of my childhood when I read it to my daughters. I had always been a little girl to my mother, Annick, even when I was old enough to live independently. After she was gone, the little girl in me somewhat submerged.