SIDESHOW - Eau de Cologne

Here at 20 RUE JACOB, hides a secret place in the heart of St Germain des Prés.

 American Natalie Clifford Barney's literary salon is named after

"Temple of Friendship". For more than 60 years this place welcomes the finest minds in a neoclassical decor. The "Amazon" show will remain one of the last so influential. Jardins d´écrivains permeates the intensity of this story to compose the fragrance

of a Parisian spring.

In a case of amber patchouli, a radiant bergamot is combined with the delicate palmarosa.

The way of incense transports us here to the heart of a Kōdō ceremony. Swirls of black tea scented with lotus and chrysanthemums precede an imperial OUD. Its charisma is embellished with precious notes mixed with rice powder, cashmere wood and musk.

This nocturnal, vampire-like creature has burst upon the social scene, where she brings a fragrance of newness.
She is perfectly beautiful with a boldness that makers her fashionable.
La Castiglione has odd manners. She doesn’t make conversation, babble or dance, for she wants to be an almost silent divinity, like a statue, an effigy. A photographic word about the role

Harmony, classicism and style are the values Cléo de Merode acquired at the Paris opera. But her controlled appearance conceals a more ambiguous nature. Like a fierce hetaira, she stands out in a sort of brothel that has become the foyer of the ballet school.
She was considered the world’s most beautiful woman in 1896. An absolute star, she captured her contemporarie's imagination.

The new ager explores a new religiosity that appeared in the 20th century.

A spirituality centered on the “mystical self” and inspired by different influences.

This quest reveals a cosmic patchouli with jasmine and incensed essences of a divine nature.

The Jardins D'écrivains "Eau de Parfum" set consists of a selection of 7 20ML roll-on perfumes.

Gigi, Junky, Ajar, Wilde, George, Orlando, Marlowe

Eau de Parfum Gigi

GIGI, the famous heroine of Colette, invites us to Paris in 1900. Young, beautiful, mischievous, she seduces with her simplicity and carefreeness. To celebrate it, Jardins D’Écrivains imagines a theme of bright and fruity white flowers. “the most essential of superfluities”

Eau de Parfum Junky

William Burroughs is considered the most avant-garde and daring of the authors of the “Beat Generation”. Junky describes his extreme experiences and inspires an addictive perfume. Perfume has the power to awaken the senses and it is a precise mechanism which operates in a freshness of cannabis and precious wood.

Eau de Parfum Ajar

Romain Gary imagines a literary subterfuge by creating Emile Ajar. Anonymity becomes for him a way of reinventing himself. Like a chameleon perfume, Ajar is a story of incarnation. The darkness of incense mixes with a dazzling orchid. An ambivalence expressing the paradox of personality. A sort of play of light and shadow present in each individual.

Eau de Parfum Wilde

Jardins D’écrivains was inspired by the famous aphorisms of Oscar Wilde to express an olfactory figure of speech. Words, like perfumes, have the power to reveal accurately. WILDE eau de parfum is intended for aesthetes working in their lives to become who they are.

“Man believed that it was important to have, ignoring that it was important to be.” Oscar Wilde

Eau de Parfum George

George Sand was the most modern woman of the Romantic era. Jardins D’écrivains created its first perfume GEORGE under the inspiration of this extraordinary existence. An intense olfactory signature announcing the combination of captivating notes with a chypre base presaging a dazzling temperament.

Eau de Parfum Orlando

Jardins D’écrivains interprets Virginia Woolf’s fascinating fantasy tale. A hybrid character with eternal youth, the one called Lord Orlando during the Elizabethan era became Lady Orlando during the 18th century. Strangeness, eclecticism and timelessness reveal a captivating fragrance. A trail imbued with an irrational dream, an oriental monarchy and a divine sense.

Eau de Parfum Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe is the brilliant bad boy of the Elizabethan theater, handsome, alcoholic, gay, occultist and spy. A dense, heady, animal and theatrical fragrance. From the first notes, the poisonous nectar of tuberose mixes with the opulence of osmanthus. The old-fashioned heart of dried flowers evokes tragic poetry. The base reveals notes of chypre and powdered leather.

Magical plants and occult botany give birth to a spagyric perfume.

Witch flowers make a pact with opium in the heart of incense swirls.

FLORE OCCULT is an all-over spray for the body but also to create an atmosphere around you.

The new ager explores a new religiosity that appeared in the 20th century.

A spirituality centered on the “mystical self” and inspired by different influences.

This quest reveals a cosmic patchouli with jasmine and incensed essences of a divine nature.

Spray 8.45fl.oz

Adjustable choker

40 to 46cm

Natural amazonite stones

Jardins d’Ecrivains puts its own interpretation on the fascinating Virginia Woolf fantasy. An androgynous character with eternal youth, Lord Orlando in the Elizabethan era becomes Lady Orlando in the 18th century. Quirky blends with the eclectic and timeless in a spellbinding fragrance. Irrational dreams, an eastern monarchy and a sense of the divine linger in its wake.

Here at 20 RUE JACOB, hides a secret place in the heart of St Germain des Prés.

 American Natalie Clifford Barney's literary salon is named after

"Temple of Friendship". For more than 60 years this place welcomes the finest minds in a neoclassical decor. The "Amazon" show will remain one of the last so influential. Jardins d´écrivains permeates the intensity of this story to compose the fragrance

of a Parisian spring.

In a case of amber patchouli, a radiant bergamot is combined with the delicate palmarosa.

Nothing could be more picaresque than the life of “La Belle Otero”, singing, dancing, jumping on a table ! The beautiful gypsy has an insatiable nature. The queen of elegance frequented kings from Paris to Monte Carlo. She was the most ruthless courtesan of the Belle Époque. She devoted her life to dancing, men, precious stones, gambling and above all freedom.

Nathalie Sonnet, ceramist

After studying history, I joined the Louvre Museum at the end of the 80’s, then in full mutation. My gaze is particularly focused on ceramics, perhaps because here one perceives the hand shaping matter. I then resume studies of art history and, from eye to hand, other apprenticeships, which gradually and durably attach me to this material, clay. In 2005 I set up a workshop in Normandy, where color and light nourish my work. 

Since then, following a path of research in forms, colors, textures, the body is increasingly involved in gesture and develops proximity and intimacy with matter.