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Timbuktu

Green mango, pink pepper, cardamom — read like that it sounds simple. L'Artisan Parfumeur Timbuktu is not.

L'Artisan Parfumeur Timbuktu

Released

2004

Concentration

EDT

Nose

Bertrand Duchaufour

House from

France

Retail

$165

Rated

4/5

How it moves

Up top: green mango, pink pepper and cardamom. Enjoy them; they will not stay. By the half hour it has become incense, karo karounde and papyrus. It dries down to vetiver, patchouli, myrrh and benzoin, close to the skin and hard to forget.

What wearers say

4 out of 5 across 3,200 ratings — well loved, and not quietly.

Who made it

Bertrand Duchaufour composed it in 2004, for L'Artisan Parfumeur in France. Inspired by the West African wusulan ritual, Duchaufour's Timbuktu is a dry incense-vetiver-mango composition regarded as one of L'Artisan's finest.

The community

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    Questions

    Who made L'Artisan Parfumeur Timbuktu?
    It was composed by Bertrand Duchaufour, released in 2004 for L'Artisan Parfumeur.

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