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Vianne’s Confession blends Mediterranean sea salt and unsweetened cacao with incense, tomato leaf and rose, hot sun, cool dark church interiors and cobblestone alleyways in the rain. Out of the chocolate shop into the church - the scent of the prequel to Joanne Harris's Chocolat.

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Vianne's Confession
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Vianne’s Confession, the fragrance to go with Joanne Harris’s new novel, Vianne, is available now.

The eau de parfum that accompanies Joanne Harris's novel Vianne, the prequel to Chocolat: a scented story of uncertainty and exploration set in Marseille, featuring unsweetened cacao, rose, incense, oakmoss, geranium and tomato leaf.

Vianne's Confession is a story in scent of the art and magic of chocolate, created with Joanne Harris at the 4160Tuesdays workshop, to coincide with the release of her new novel, Vianne. This fragrance blends Mediterranean sea salt and unsweetened cacao with incense, tomato leaf and rose, hot sun, cool dark church interiors and cobblestone alleyways in the rain. Strange and enchanting.

It's the prequel to Chocolat and describes Vianne Rocher's return to France, how she learns to cook and discovers her talent for creating magical chocolates.

It was named Best in Show by Jo Fairley, co-founder of Beauty Bible and The Perfume Society, who sniffed it for the first time at the Barnes Fragrance Fair. You can read what she said about it here - Jo's Scent Notes: 4160 Tuesdays Vianne's Confession.

  • Perfume dialect: Dark Chypre
  • Notes: unsweetened cacao, rose, incense, oakmoss, geranium and tomato leaf, hot sun, cool dark church interiors and cobblestone alleyways in the rain.
  • Vianne’s Confession is suitable for vegans.

“Oh my word. It is *soooo* beautiful - so deep, layered and almost mystical. Gorgeous. Thank you Sarah!” - Maria Skrzypiec

All of our fragrances have a story. Here is the story of Vianne's Confession:

Joanne Harris spent a day at our studio discovering obscure and wonderful perfumery materials, and at the end, Sarah created the first two versions. Joanne described our favourite as like a young woman after a swim in the sea taking refuge from the heat in the cathedral.

Vianne is the prequel to Chocolat and describes Vianne Rocher's return to France, how she learns to cook and discovers her talent for creating magical chocolates.

From the aromas Joanne evokes in the novel, we took unsweetened cacao, rose, geranium, tomato leaf, oakmoss, Clearwood, cypriol, smoky labdanum, attar mitti, and light and dark musks. The aroma evokes salty skin and deep woody incense, sunshine, rain and earth.

This is what Joanne Harris wrote on her website about the experience:

"You all know how I feel about scent.

Well, a couple of weeks ago I went to see perfumer Sarah McCartney of 4160 Tuesdays to help create a bespoke scent to illustrate the new book. I had a wonderful time in Sarah’s lab, trying different scents and raw materials, talking about the background to the book; the location (Marseille in late summer and autumn) and the pictures I wanted the scent to paint. The result is called VIANNE’S CONFESSION: part chocolaterie, part confessional, with all the darkness and light of the Old Quarter of Marseille, with its steep little cobbled streets, its planters of geraniums, and the basilica of Notre-Dame de la Garde, sheltering the city."

“This is a beautiful fragrance, transportive and vivid, and it lingers long after the last chapter of the book.”  - Samantha Scriven

“I’ve just received my order and it’s utterly stunning.  I think I’m going to need more of this so I never run out!! Thank you so much” - Corinne Warne

“I got mine yesterday - I love it so much I’ve just gone and bought another one!” - Kath McCarron Humphrey

“The experience of reading the book while wearing the scent is really on another level of sensory immersion.” - Samantha Scriven

“Oh my word. It is *soooo* beautiful - so deep, layered and almost mystical. Gorgeous. Thank you Sarah!” - Maria Skrzypiec

“I keep meaning to say, congratulations Sarah McCartney for Vianne’s Confession - it is wonderful and Sexy Church sums it up so well.” - Erica Fearfield

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