A day in six scents
Versatile Paris is a young French brand that builds its scents around small everyday moments: breakfast, brunch, an Italian dinner, the night out, the morning after. Put together, the collection is basically one long, very good day.
They're extraits de parfum, made in France, vegan and genderless, in 30 ml bottles at 480 DKK. A good size: you'll actually use it up.
The scents
- Croissant Café is breakfast in Paris. Cappuccino with warm milk and vanilla, over a buttery, toasted croissant. More café than bakery counter.
- It's a match-a is brunch. Milky matcha, blueberry, then vanilla, pistachio and something that smells a lot like pancakes.
- Culot Thé is tea time with nerve. Bergamot and tonic, bitter tea with jasmine and osmanthus, and then a flick of wasabi and ginger just as it starts getting polite.
- Rital Date is a whole Italian dinner. Basil pesto, fennel and oregano, then lemon like a cold limoncello, and finally pistachio ice cream. It shouldn't work. It absolutely does.
- Very Bad Rice is very good rice. Mango sticky rice with coconut and ube. A relaxed gourmand that stays close to the skin.
- Gueule de Bois is French for hangover, literally "wooden mouth". But it smells like the night before, not the morning after: pepper and cinnamon, dark rum, incense and creamy sandalwood.
- Accrodisiaque is the night of passion. Green dill, blueberry and rose, turning into leather, smoke and something warmer as the night goes on.
Why we like them
Niche perfume can take itself very seriously. Versatile doesn't. The scents are well made and genuinely interesting, but they also make people laugh, and that's a good way into perfume for someone who's never tried niche before.
Where to start
The Versatile Paris Discovery Box has the full spray collection, 6 × 2 ml, for 190 DKK. Wear one in the morning and another in the evening, and see which one you keep reaching for.
Or come by the store at Badstuegade 16 in Aarhus and smell the pesto yourself.
