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Niche Disguised as Designer

Encre Indigo is Annick Menardo‘s unique black tea and vetiver combination from Lalique, arguably the best value-for-money house in the smell-engineering business. A niche house could package and sell this for $200-250.

You can get it from discounters for $30-35.

It is the best fragrance investment for the smallest amount of money you will ever make, along with its vetiver-infused Encre Noire cousins.

To me this is incontestably a year-round fragrance. In the spring and summer it feels like what a drink of tall unsweetened iced cold tea tastes like. In the fall and winter, that same tea note is warming and comforting.

I own about 15 backup bottles of my favorite frags. This is one.

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Niche Disguised as Designer