Today I am introducing L’Air du Jardin Caché.
This perfume arrives as part of the 21st anniversary of Tauer Perfumes, which still amazes me when I stop and think about it. It has been quite a journey. During these 21 years, hyacinth has played an important role for me. From early, humble experiments to the boldness of “Hyacinth and a Mechanic”, and now to the air of a hidden garden, hyacinth has always been there. I love this flower.
In that sense, L’Air du Jardin Caché feels like a culmination point for me. I worked on it in 2025, after having played with hyacinth in different ways throughout my career. This perfume is new, but it is also part of my story. It is deeply connected to what matters most to me in perfumery: character, proportion, clarity, and a certain hold. Lasting power without overpowering.
When revisiting a floral perfume with hyacinth at its heart, I wanted to create something truly classical and wearable. Not a concept piece, but a beautiful perfume. Built in the spirit of the great days of classical French artistic perfumery, yet fully alive in the present.
It is also highly concentrated, with 25% fragrance oil. This gives it richness and depth, without taking away its light and movement. That was important to me, and I constructed it this way.
L’Air du Jardin Caché opens with bergamot brightness and an aldehydic lift. At its heart is a clean hyacinth line. There is rose, soft and spicy, and completely unisex. There is greenness from geranium, and a clean, airy note from a violet flower accord.
Violet is another favorite of mine. I remember vividly how, as a boy growing up in the Swiss countryside, I would walk to a nearby railway embankment, a south-facing place where every year I could find the earliest violets. They sat there beside the brown grass from the previous year, promising spring and the renewal of nature.
That is one of the beauties of being a perfumer. I can put all these flowers into a perfume and let them bloom together.
How lovely.
And then there is the base, holding it all together. Cedarwood, sandalwood, ambroxan, benzoin, and soft woody musks form a calm woody amber foundation. Everything that I love is there, too.
What matters most to me is the balance. The perfume is floral, but not decorative. Bright, but not thin. Calm, but not static.
That is why the line that fits it best is simple:
A floral with brightness and backbone, filled with memories.
I hope it will bring memories back to you, too. Of spring, of renewal, and perhaps of flowers found unexpectedly in quiet places.
L’Air du Jardin Caché is now available in 50 ml eau de parfum.
Warm regards,
Andy
