Sérénité en Bourgogne Eau de Parfum

Every September, Albert Fouquet headed to his family's château in Burgundy to oversee the grape harvest. Breakfast on the terrace, long walks through the vineyards, and a daily noon ritual of crushing a grape between your teeth to decide whether today was the day. This is the perfume he made to hold onto that calm before the work began.

It opens with saffron and pink pepper, softens into warm myrrh, and settles on Madagascar vanilla and patchouli. Spicy, a little gourmand, and cozy without being sugary. It reads as a cooler-weather scent, the kind you reach for when the sweaters come out.

As Eight & Bob tells it, a young JFK met a Frenchman wearing a scent he had made on the Riviera and later asked for eight bottles for his friends and one for his brother Bob. During World War II, the last shipments were hidden inside hollowed-out books to keep them from the Nazis. We love the scents just as much as the story.

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