Discovery Set French Cowboy & Secret

Four perfumes from the house that has spent two years turning haute perfumery on its head, plus a fifth, surprise! It’s the fastest way to get to know French Cowboy without risking a full bottle blind: you can try the four on your skin for as many days as you like, and decide with confidence.

This set brings together its four fragrances and a surprise. Each sample is 1.5 ml: enough to wear each perfume for several days in a row and see how it develops on your skin from morning to night. We made it once only and in limited quantities: when the units run out, the set is gone.

Pear Pavlova · French Cowboy
Co-created with Allie Goodbun, a Canadian dancer and showgirl at a Paris cabaret. It opens juicy and airy, with pear, pink pepper CO2, and bitter almond; at the heart, Indian sambac jasmine; and underneath, ambrette seed, one of the most expensive and rare natural musks in perfumery, which leaves a powdery, creamy, almost skin-like base. 35% concentrate. It comes in like a meringue and stays like a musk.

Mezcal Chocolat · French Cowboy
The house’s first, and the one that divides opinion most. Co-created with Mathis Molinié, chef at the helm of Restaurant Philippe in Rouen, who cooks alongside his father while reinventing the family business. It is all contrast, like a good dish: it opens with lime and salt, a spark of chili and smoky frankincense, and a hit of mezcal and rum; at the center, the absolute cacao takes over, the most expensive cacao there is, used without restraint, over Virginia cedar and cypriol. It smells of dry, bitter chocolate with smoke behind it, never slipping into candle gourmand. 32% extrait. For anyone not afraid to smell like something.

Fig Lemonade · French Cowboy
The one Ashley Santiago signed on her own, and the easiest to wear. The idea was to do justice to real lemon, that note in perfumery that lasts two minutes and disappears. Here it’s crossed with a very rare Calabria bergamot, which keeps it sparkling for hours, and cooled with an accord of fig and fig leaf (built with buchu from South Africa, green and juicy) over Virginia cedar. Fizzy lemonade with a green shadow. Summer and dolce vita bottled, with no extra sugar.

Vanilla for Breakfast · French Cowboy
Co-created with Mia Fall, beauty creator and doctor in robotics and data, a confessed vanilla addict. The usual complaint with vanillas is that they take ages to show up; this one starts with vanilla from the very first spray. The trick: an exclusive sweet almond extract from Givaudan, recycled from almond milk, which opens the door to four different vanillas (tincture, CO2, Madagascar absolute, and a twenty-times-concentrated absolute), with benzoin and toasted tonka bean in the base. 35%. It smells like clothes fresh out of a kitchen where someone was baking sugar cookies.

The fifth
Here we stop counting. The four above are French Cowboy; this one isn’t, it changes continent and temperature. It’s a tropical extrait that is drunk more than it is smelled: creamy coconut, pineapple, mango, and lychee like a smoothie served in full sun, with a warm base of amber woods and musky vanilla that lasts all day. We won’t say which one.