Win a Perfumed Trip to Paris for the Launch of L'Artisan Batucada

To celebrate the launch of BATUCADA, the new vibrant fragrance inspired by Brazil, L'Artisan Parfumeur offers you a special trip to Paris and a day full of olfactory adventures. To enter this competition, simply answer the following question at competition@artisan-parfumeur.com
(the answer can be found on our website - www.artisanparfumeur.com !)
Q. Which famous Brazilian beach is one
of the inspirations for BATUCADA'?
A winner will be randomly selected from among all correct entries and will win a one day / one night stay in Paris, hotel and transport included.
Your prize:
An exclusive perfume workshop with Karine Vinchon,
the perfumer who created BATUCADA
An evening in a fantastic Brazilian atmosphere
A night in a Parisian hotel
Now over to you!
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L'Artisan Parfumeur Batucada: new fragrance

L'Artisan Parfumeur turns to perfumers Karine Vinchon and Elizabeth Maier (after a long stint with Bertrand Duchaufour) for their newest fragrance Batucada, due out in October 2011. The upcoming release connects two perfumers, but also two diametrically different places of the world; Grasse in France and São Paulo in Brazil, according to their official ad copy.

Although Grasse is apparently touted as the origin of the finery of the composition's formula, it's Brazil which serves as the conceptual spatial reference; batucada is a subgenre of samba originating from Rio de Janeiro. It involves a percussionist ensemble (bateria) that is heavily influenced by the repetitive and fast style of African percussionists.

Batucada by L'Artisan Parfumeur is a unisex fragrance that involves several Brazilian-influenced notes, at least what is populary considered classic Brazilian references for foreigners: The top expecetdly mixes a Brazilian Caipirinha cocktail accord (lime, cachaça and mint leaves), while the heart evolves around floral notes of tiare and ylang ylang. The drydown consists of base notes of coconut water and marine notes with nuances of sea salt.
I do hope that they manage to surpass the lovely Bahiana (Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier) which went that route before. Otherwise, what's the point?

Batucada will be released as an Eau de Toilette in 3.4oz/100ml and 1.7z/50 ml this coming October at select doors who stock L'Artisan Parfumeur fragrances.