Lyn Harris is from West Yorkshire. She trained under Monique Schlienger in Paris from 1992, joined Robertet in Grasse in 1995, then came home to set up her own laboratory. Trudon calls her one of the only classic perfumers in the UK.
Her brief for II was a forest across a year rather than a forest at one moment, which asks a scent to change on the skin. It opens on green leaves and bitter orange. Pine and juniper come through. Cedarwood and incense are what stay. Trudon calls it symbiotic and a cologne in spirit. The opening bears out the second.
The bottle is glass throughout, drawn by Pauline Deltour with a rippled cap that recalls La Promeneuse, her lantern for the house. Harris also wrote Révolution for Trudon. Of her two on our shelf, II is the green one and Révolution, elemi and angelica over juniper and papyrus, the smoke.
A cologne in spirit gets worn the way a cologne does. Sprayed generously first thing, the bitter orange gone by mid-morning, the cedar and incense what is left on the collar. The 15ml travel spray is the same scent.
Spec
- Eau de parfum, 100ml
- Perfumer Lyn Harris
- Top: green leaves, bitter orange
- Heart: pine, juniper
- Base: cedarwood, incense
- Bottle by Pauline Deltour
