Since it is mushroom foraging season, I thought I’d share my favorite episodes in Le Weekend, the Friday newsletter from Frenchly. So last night, I did what I do when I want to learn about something: I opened my podcast app, and listened to dozens of episodes about mushrooms. When outside of my house or market, I sort of assume they are all mushrooms I shouldn’t touch, even though I adore mushrooms, or as we call them in my home country, champignons.
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But this got me thinking: I have absolutely no idea how to differentiate a comestible mushroom from a dangerous one. Luckily, I saw it happen right away and I was able retrieve them before he’d chewed and swallowed. And then I found him putting some in his mouth. I tried to steer my son’s attention away from them, explaining they were dangerous. I had seen a few mushrooms growing by the trees. The sun was warm and I was raking some of the leaves covering my lawn. Picture this: He was playing in our backyard after coming back from daycare. And no later than yesterday, it happened again. Like any toddler around this age, my son particularly enjoys doing the exact opposite of what I say. The smooth, smoky oil that they worked into the animalistic eau de parfum is, however, “very refined,” Raza confirms, before emphasizing with a laugh, “ not hippie.I am the mom of an almost 3-year-old. The heart of the scent, meanwhile, found itself in patchouli, much to the surprise of Niquet, who once shunned the polarizing note.
Taking its name from Joris-Karl Huysmans’s 1891 novel, Là-Bas (which means “over there” en français) began with an intriguing premise: What if Paris’s Saint-Sulpice, the church around the corner from Niquet’s childhood home, landed on New York City’s Madison Avenue, where Niquet was living at the time? Armed with an arsenal of rich references-ranging from the wood-paneled walls of gentlemen’s clubs and the Place Vendôme shirtmaker Charvet to mink-lined jackets and the earthy contralto of Etta James-Raza enlisted the perfumer Dominique Ropion, whom she refers to as “the Martin Scorsese of fragrance,” to mastermind a dry and spicy eau, which he topped off with muguet and both Bulgarian and Turkish rose absolute. What was initially intended to be a single scent soon evolved into a collection of five distinct fragrances, the second of which launches online today. When Alia Raza and Christopher Niquet first met over macarons at Ladurée seven years ago, they quickly discovered that they had a shared affinity for the world of scent: Raza had recently co-founded the conceptual fragrance house Régime des Fleurs Niquet, a French editor, had been enthralled with innovative blends ever since happening upon Serge Lutens’s Palais Royal boutique as a teenager in Paris. And so, in 2019, Raza, who had just completed a rosy, pastel-colored collaboration with Chloë Sevigny, approached Niquet with a novel idea: Would he like to help develop Régime des Fleur’s first perfume for men? An ambitious aesthete who’s worked with words and images alike, Niquet leapt at the creative endeavor.
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