New Niche Fragrance: THIRDMAN Eau Nomade – Cologne and Cardamom

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For the first year of Thirdman's launch, Jean-Christophe Legreves, the founder of THIRDMAN, surrounded the brand with mystery by keeping the identity of the perfumers hidden. The Mystery was unveiled and  the perfumers revealed; Clement Gavarry (Eau Profonde) and Bruno Jovanovic (Eau Monumentale, Eau Moderne).

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Mr. Jovanovic  is the nose behind the fourth Eau de Cologne, Eau Nomade.

Notes: Cardamom, Sicilian lemon, blood orange (there are probably more, but that's another mystery)

100 ml -$105

200 ml-$185

Available at Babalu Miami and Luckyscent.

Is it important to you to know the identity of perfumers when you buy a niche fragrance?

–Michelyn Camen, Editor-In Chief

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11 comments

  • MissP says:

    It’s interesting, but it doesn’t matter to me who the nose is! Whatever it is, if I like how it smells, I’ll buy it. Also, I’m not fussed on bottles — though I know people who won’t buy a lovely frag if they don’t like the bottle. :/

  • ringthing says:

    Sometimes knowing the name of the perfumer makes me want to try something; for example, I’ll smell anything by Bertrand Duchaufour because I admire his work, but the love of the scent is the most important thing. At this stage of my perfume life, if I love something enough to buy it I’ll research who the perfumer is so I can check out their other work.

  • Igor Kipnis says:

    It’s very important to know the perfumer when buying any fragrance to me. You know their resume and have the idea what they are all about. Certain perfumers may be known to use certain notes while others may not. It’s good to know the name but I wouldn’t require to know exactly the perfumer because I may like something from someone I never heard before. But yes, knowing the perfumer is important to me.

  • brie says:

    I am probably going to be in the minority for how I answer this but my own very long personally history with perfume is one in which the notes were never known to me nor was the perfumer. Before the internet and vast number of fragrance blogs perfume was shrouded in mystery….and sometimes I think this might not have been so bad….no preconceived notions of what the fragrance will smell like based on the notes and the name of the perfumer given to us ahead of time.

  • Michelyn Camen says:

    Brie
    It’s an interesting question for me, many more well known perfumers have obtained a rock star status and I know it can influence a predisposition to want to try a fragrance
    Notes are interesting just for facts
    What about houses?
    If we know a particular House we are often predisposed
    But in this day and age we can’t go back to the days you speak of
    And I am not so sure that’s a bad thing
    For example, there are houses who don’t disclose perfumers but I often can guess who created a fragrance because some iconic perfumers have a signature
    What really ticks me off is incorrect and incomplete information that is disseminated

  • wefadetogray says:

    I am not sure if I need to know but it is helpful to know. It wouldnt change the fact that I like or dislike a scent no matter who is behind it. I do admire several niche noses and I always like to know what they are doing. On the other hand, I know that if there is a particular note I love, in a new perfume (or old), I want to smell it and it doenst leave my mind until I smell it. A note haunts me, a name, not so much. I love cardamom so I would love to smell this.

  • Joe says:

    I just yesterday bough a bottle of Eau Moderne, unsniffed. I’m hoping I like it — bitter orange with iris sounds really nice to me. Also nice was the $75 price tag for 50ml. Should be a nice cologne for warm spring and summer weather.

  • Fazal Cheema says:

    i do believe in knowing a nose because that way their talent is recognized but i also udnerstand that doing so may make difficult for new perfumers to gain ground since everyone is more likely to try something from an established name

  • Amer says:

    Wether we like it or not the name of the perfumer has its role in the selection of fragrance, the same way the name of a designer in the selection of clothes. It might be that while you are not initially wowed with a composition you decide to give it a second chance and the time to put its spell on you if it was made by a star perfumer. Perhaps you will actively seek a hard to find perfume based on the name of a perfumer only or you would justify spending more money on it than on the work of someone relatively unknown. In fashion a work by a famous designer could be typical of his style, a signature piece, but done by a no-name it could even be considered kitsch.
    .
    As much as we like to think it is just about the scent and the sensory pleasure, fragrance is also about design and commerce and the same strategies apply.

  • brie says:

    Michelyn- You are so right….and in actuality I have my own personal bias towards certain houses that I adore (SSS, Ineke, 1000 Flowers) and in any of their new releases I would indeed want to know what the notes are just to get a feel for what the perfume would potentially smell like. As you said we can’t go back in time and it truly is better to have ALL the information rather than partial and/or inaccurate information.
    A very thought provoking question and I am glad that you have included it in this post 🙂 !!!

  • Sujaan says:

    I am curious about this line because I haven’t heard of it before and it’s featured on Luckyscent this month. This fragrance sounds lovely and fresh for spring. I really enjoy cardamom.
    I like to learn who the perfumer is just because I find it interesting, but even more I like to learn their inspiration for each fragrance, or the process they took in creating it. This is fascinating to me. Like the Olfactive Studio line creating a scent from a picture. Very cool. Or when a perfumer describes a feeling they were trying to create with the scent.
    I won’t buy, or not buy, based on the perfumer or a house, but I will often go out of my way to try something if I’ve liked what they’ve done before.