Le Potager, the unsuspected elegance of vegetables and their scents​

In addition to his own garden, populated by a vast array of flowers, Jean Laporte decided to grow a vegetable garden in the early 80s, and so from within an extraordinary greenhouse he grew the finest kitchen garden. 

Today, the practice is more widespread, with ever increasing environmental concerns, but at the time, the idea was surprising. Quentin Bisch and Alexandra Carlin, rising to the slightly iconoclastic challenge, worked with vegetables the same way as they usually would with flowers. ​

Under their dexterous fingers, peas, tomatoes, fennel, beetroot and cauliflower became the new stars of subtle and daring blends. Devilishly seductive, these vegetable creations open up a new world of scent, overturning the usual references, for new ones to emerge. Akin to the revolution in gastronomy of Alain Passard, rarely has the hushed world of perfumery seen such a coup at its very source.​