From today the Mon Numéro Collection by Bertrand Duchaufour is available online at L’Artisan Parfumeur!
Here is my overview with mini-reviews of all the perfumes.
And here are the more in-depth reviews of a few of the line.
Hopefully more reviews are to follow soon! 🙂
Will you be getting something from the collection?
How do you feel about the city exclusivity issue?
Are you going to purchase unsniffed?
Olfactoria's Travels 
I don’t think that I will purchase unsniffed, but I will be looking for some samples or decants. I am tempted to order Mon Numero 6 just based on your review though. I am a big Duchaufour fan, so that complicates things. I am not a big fan of the city exclusivity issue, and I am a little baffled about how well it works for the companies. I guess that it drives up interest because of the difficulty in getting a bottle, but I would prefer companies to make nice fragrances available to everyone. I tend to ignore the city exclusives or even the non-export SL fragrances because I don’t want to work that hard for a bottle of perfume. I do wish that I could get my hands on some SL Bois Oriental though!
I hate that the companies make it so hard for their customers, I guess it ups the interest though.
If you need Bois Oriental, you can always drop me a line, I’d be happy to buy it for you and send it on. I would love to help, just let me know! 🙂
I don’t approve at all of city exclusivity. I shall be reading your reviews with care .
Me neither, such unnecessary drama!
City exclusivity utterly baffles me. I don’t see how they can make money on it. And it’s annoying! I hope they come out with a travel set, maybe 5ml of each with one of their “Nomad Sprayers”? That would be a terrific traveler’s set, and make a lot more economic sense than “city exclusives” as well. I would certainly buy such a fun set. Ormonde Jayne has a sampler/traveler’s set, and I’ve already gone through 2 of them!
Me too, Marla! Do they really make more money that way? Because that is what counts isn’t it? A travel set would be grand, but I have no hope. 😦 The OJ set is the best indeed!
I have been eagerly awaiting these new perfumes. I must be blind though because I cannot find them on their website. The city exclusives pique my interest though as I would like to know more about why certain cities were chosen and how the perfume evolved. A travel set would certainly be ideal – perhaps as a Christmas season offer?
For reasons I cannot fathom L’Artisan did not put the collection up yet, despite what they have been announcing. I’m sorry, maybe I should take that post down again. I feel myself getting even more cranky towards that collection…
I went looking for it, too! Not there…the Marketing Dept. needs to get its head together!
Yup! Hopefully it is up soon…
City exclusivity is just so grating to me. But, irritation aside, Mon Numero 7 may be an unsniffed purchase for me. I have you to thank/blame for that! 🙂 In all seriousness, though, thank you for your reviews and for keeping us informed. I hope you know we all appreciate it!
Thank you, that is very nice to hear. 🙂
I can’t imagine local people to storm the L’Artisan boutiques and buy up all the exclusive bottles. Maybe they do, only to send them on across the world to other Perfumistas though! 🙂