Sur L'Herbe

Edouard Manet's Déjeuner sur l'Herbe caused a veritable scandal when critics discovered it in Paris in 1863.... see more

Edouard Manet's Déjeuner sur l'Herbe caused a veritable scandal when critics discovered it in Paris in 1863. While Manet claimed references to classical painting in this scene of two clothed men picnicking in a forest with a nude woman, his contemporaries considered the scene obscene.

It was this raw modernity that carried perfumer Fabrice Pellegrin through the formulation of this Cologne. He decided to reinvent neroli by injecting an overdose of light. He created a sunny accord that he placed at the heart of the fragrance, then injected white musks, amber ingredients and an overdose of oxygen that blurred all prejudices.
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