Launched in 2009 by indie brand Ineke, Field Notes from Paris is part of the Alphabetical Collection, where the names of the fragrances represent a letter of the alphabet. For example, ‘A’ is represented by After My Own Heart, ‘B’ is represented by Balmy Days and Sundays and, ‘F’ is represented by Field Notes from Paris, and so on.

Field Notes from Paris was inspired by perfumer Ineke Rühland’s halcyon days, when she was studying perfume as a young woman in Paris. It evokes romantic memories of sitting in an outdoor café, lingering over a café crème for hours, people-watching, smelling the scents of the things around her and making notes in a journal.

It opens with fresh, citrusy bergamot that soon yields to a note of sweet, jasmine-faceted, heady, orange flower. Coriander seed gives the opening a spicy warmth. As it moves to the heart rich, aromatic notes of tobacco flower and leaf are warm and ambery sweet and with a slightly grassy hay-like facet that creates a cozy, comfortable feeling. The tobacco also has an earthy aspect that calls up a note of patchouli, which adds depth but not darkness. It’s the perfect counterbalance to the tobacco. Cedarwood is warm, woody and balsamic, and it links to the patchouli to give Field Notes from Paris a woody character. Tonka bean is warm, smooth and hay-like. It extends those aspects of the tobacco facets to the base. A note of leather is soft and supple, sitting on a note of honeyed, musky beeswax. Creamy, sensuous, cozy vanilla completes the composition.

Field Notes from Paris dries down to a floral, warm, woody, slightly powdery spring scent that’s gentle, evocative, tender and romantic.

Notes: Bergamot, orange flower, coriander seed, tobacco flower and leaf, patchouli, cedar, tonka bean, leather, beeswax and vanilla.