Who is L’Ancien ?
I am the founder of La Parfumerie Podcast, pure product of the Parisian suburbs, in short: neither anything nor anyone. Above all, I am a man who refused the destiny that the West imposed upon him to pack his bags and move to the Sahel.
This modest blog is my space of freedom. Far from the hustle and bustle of the perfume world, I share a raw vision of our time and my story with those who are starting to perceive the deception of the French narrative.
Listen, read, but above all, cling to the nobility of the soul and your culture. Own it without apology.
My journey has not been without its struggles. By choosing Africa, I have also embraced an intimate way of life that challenges established norms and can spark misunderstanding. I seek neither to convince nor to provoke: I simply write from the place of my truth. Here, I set the stage through my public articles and audio recordings.
For those who wish to go deeper into this reflection, I have opened a privileged space. There, I share my most profound analyses and my most personal chronicles on my Malian reality, sheltered from the noise and idle curiosity. This is where the discussion becomes serious.
But beyond the narrative, this blog is an attempt to model reality. Through sections like The Bedrock of Worlds, I take on the task of a cartographer: identifying the structures that still stand where everything else seems to be collapsing. My approach is not that of a commentator, but that of a social engineer who dissects kinship systems, territorial logic, and mechanisms of sovereignty with radical objectivity.
This is not merely intellectual curiosity; it is a search for foundations. In this age of simulacra, I look for what is ‘true’ in the physical sense: what resists wear, what protects the group, what founds a lineage. As you navigate these pages, you will find no half-measures, but rather an invitation to look at our roots with the same precision one would use to build a citadel. This is my contribution to the survival of our profound identities, here and now.
On one side is imperialism, in its colonial and neo-colonial forms, which never ceases to want to put the African back to the plow, by fitting him with blinders to prevent him from looking outside the designated path — in short, imperialism which continues to control African economics, politics, and culture. And then on the other side, there is the struggle of Africans to free their economy, their politics, and their culture from Euro-American grip and open a new era, where sovereignty and self-determination are no longer empty words.