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LesNEZ: new line of fragrances

Posted by Robin on 2 October 2006 11 Comments

LesNez fragrance

LesNEZ is a new indie perfume house established by René Schifferle. The brand debuts with three fragrances, all developed with perfumer Isabelle Doyen:

The Unicorn Spell is a green floral with a focus on violet. Isabelle Doyen says: "If by dawn still linger on your skin mixed scents of leaves, frost and violet blooms, and that relentless yearning for stellar sights, you will know that, at night, you felt the milky breath of a unicorn".

Let me Play the Lion... takes its name from the play-inside-the-play of Shakespeare's Midsummmer Night's Dream:

Let me play the lion too: I will roar, that I will do any man's heart good to hear me; I will roar, that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again, let him roar again.'

Isabelle writes:

Scents of dusty trails,
Of lightly sweetened ochre,
Of sun-weathered wood,
Of silence swept by cool breezes,
Of skies open like an endless azure cut oozing signs of the coming storm.

L'Antimatière is described as an "unconventional exercise in minimalism — sexy — dirty":

An invisible ink that leaves a trace,
Foreseen rather than felt,
Persistent
Yet whispered,
Like a creased bed linen scent wandering along your curves...

Fragrances and samples can be found at lesnez.

Filed Under: new fragrances
Tagged With: isabelle doyen, lesnez

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  1. Anonymous says:
    2 October 2006 at 1:25 pm

    Darn! Why do I keep reading about these new releases? Leaves, frost and violet blooms?? Gotta have.

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  2. Anonymous says:
    2 October 2006 at 5:13 pm

    Lordy lordy! The poughetry of writing perfume ad copy gets crazier and crazier all the time. It is as if army of writers with repressed memories of flunking Creative Writing have taken over and are all hellbent to show us that THEY CAN WRITE, DAMMIT! Should I be scared? 🙂

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  3. Anonymous says:
    2 October 2006 at 5:34 pm

    Good to have you back! Samples are on its way from Switzerland to Germany and I,m really looking forward to it (hope they don,t smell like a wild, dirty minimalistic zen cat under roaring stellar sight 😉 )

    Andrea

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  4. Anonymous says:
    3 October 2006 at 4:48 am

    hello third shift:

    belive it or not:

    these are the words which go with the perfumes – the author is the perfumer herself – if you don't find the words in the bottles – I hang my head in shame.

    René Schifferle (lesnez.com)

    P.S. We don't know what marketing is – we just bombard bloggers with samples.

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  5. Anonymous says:
    3 October 2006 at 11:10 am

    It does sound very lovely, doesn't it? Hope to try it this week.

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  6. Anonymous says:
    3 October 2006 at 11:11 am

    LOL, I hope so too A!

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  7. Anonymous says:
    3 October 2006 at 11:12 am

    Thanks for commenting Rene, and sorry I left out the attribution to I.D. on the third quote…

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  8. Anonymous says:
    3 October 2006 at 11:14 am

    C, I know just what you mean, although as Rene points out in this case, it is the perfumer and not an insane copy writer who has never smelled the stuff 🙂

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  9. Anonymous says:
    3 October 2006 at 12:37 pm

    🙂 Ok OK you sold me, I'll sign up for a sample to find out what relentless yearning smells like and if it bears any relation to a fatter paycheck. You have to admit it's just a wee bit over the top, yes? Have fun!

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  10. Anonymous says:
    3 October 2006 at 6:23 pm

    I love the name “Let Me Play the Lion”. It's extremely vivid and specific. Of course not everyone will be like Bottom of “A Midsummer Night's Dream” but his capacious, wide-ranging, enthusiastic spirit is a great entree into the perfume. I have not tried it yet but for this lover of Shakespeare it will be a must to sample and probably purchase.

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  11. Anonymous says:
    4 October 2006 at 10:37 am

    Agree, it is a great name. Hope you'll love the scent…

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