Miller Harris La Fumee was launched in 2011, created by Lyn Harris. It is a smoke perfume which pays homage to the ancient rites of perfumery "through smoke". It transports you to the ancient ritual of incenses and spices being burnt with their smoke rising into the sky. La Fumee features top notes of French lavender, elemi and incense; middle notes of Guatemelan cardamom, coriander seed, cumin, Egyptian geranium and chamomile; and base notes of Moroccan cedarwood, agarwood, Mysore sandalwood, cade, birch tar and amber. It is an eau de parfum, edp.
Fragrantica - "There are lots of perfumes that combine incense and woods but for me La Fumee occupies a sweet spot between Gucci Pour Homme I (2003) and Tauer's Lonestar Memories. It's a fantastic combo of incense, labdanum & cedar, all of which are legible at various points. The resins add softness and body."
Fragrantica - "The opening is intoxicating with glorious incense notes followed by a rather intense smokiness, which I love! Throughout the opening, I couldn't refrain from smelling my inner wrists and forearms. I find La Fumee totally feminine when shortly after the opening notes, creamy, silky, velvety, smooth ethereal vanilla notes rise and interplay with the ongoing lovely incense & smokiness! Dreamy and almost light (which I'm starting to prefer, given my fragrances tend to play heavy with resinous, rather oily notes), La Fumee cloaked me in a cloud of smoky, creamy, resinous, vanilla, woody incense. The fragrance places me in a near meditative, dream-like state...it really does!"
Fragrantica - "It dries down sweetly, projecting a lovely aroma which smells nicer than it does on my skin. There is definitely Cumin in this and it has turned my skin slightly sweaty but in a good way. This is a very sexy, come to bed fragrance and in my humble opinion, is another MH masterpiece, (L'air being another one) Fabulous projection which smells differently than when worn and if you love sweet but masculine perfumes, this will thrill you as it did me."
Fragrantica - "Gorgeous, lush, opulent, oozing sensual spice in every direction. An absolute diva of a perfume that's somehow also interesting enough to wear without cloying, and magnetically rich and complex when you give it time. Its floral qualities are actually a little too forward for me (female, tending to prefer masculine-tending woodsy unisex stuff) and the smoke is exceedingly perfumed - this isn't bonfire or charcoal, but gentler and more soothing. So it is both girlier and less smoky than you might expect, but it's still damn fine perfume."
