Vivienne Westwood will launch Let It Rock in August. The fragrance is named for Westwood's first boutique on Kings Road in London. The store was later renamed Sex and was known as the location for Johnny Rotten's audition for the Sex Pistols.
Let it Rock is an oriental which opens with top notes of bergamot and freesia, which lead to a jasmine heart and dry down to a base of amber and patchouli. The juice is housed in a tall, cylindrical glass flacon, topped with Westwood’s signature orb. The red lipstick logo runs down the side of the bottle.
Vivienne Westwood Let It Rock will be available in 30 and 50 ml Eau de Parfum. (via cosmeticsint.co.uk) Other recent releases from Vivienne Westwood: Boudoir Sin Garden.
Update: Vivienne Westwood notes the fragrance's inspiration in the early 1970s:
...For me it was the beginning of the age of nostalgia. I was wearing a space princess outfit and wearing patchouli. (image and quote via cosmeticsbusiness)
Update: Let It Rock was developed by perfumer Marie Salamagne, and was also inspired by rock groupies...
...in particular Sable Starr, the girlfriend of Johnny Thunders, lead singer of Seventies punk rock band the New York Dolls. Westwood recounted Starr tricked her friends in order to ensure a meeting with the singer alone.
"Her plan was to get Johnny Thunders and she achieved it," she said, adding Let It Rock's advertising tells the tale of a modern rock groupie.(via Women's Wear Daily)
A new fragrance release that actually sounds pretty good to me. I really like the original Boudoir.
All of her scents have been worth sniffing, and the 'signature orb' always makes me smile.
I need to try the original again, it has been a long time! This one could be interesting, and at least it isn't a fruity floral 🙂
Have you tried Sin Garden yet? (I haven't)
I have tried Sin Garden. I loved it! It was a lot 'prettier' than I expected it to be. I'm afraid I absolutely hate the original 'Boudoir', Sin Garden didn't smell like it. I will look forward to Let It Rock, I'm not too sure I like the name but that's just me being fussy!
Hmmm…not sure what to think. Vivienne Westwood is probably my favorite fashion designer of all time, but for me, her fragrances have always fallen a little below the mark. I have always admired her refusal to join the mainstream, but her fragrances seem so much less original and creative than her clothes. I liked the original Boudoir okay, though it was a little sweet for me, but I thought Libertine was pretty awful. Libertine was discontinued here in the states- don't know about Europe- and to my knowledge, her Anglomania and Boudoir Sin Garden were never released here, and I don't know if Let it Rock will be. At least, I've never seen them- does anyone know where I might find them in the US? Despite my lukewarm feelings about Boudoir & Libertine, I'd still like to give them a sniff, just 'cause they're from Vivienne.
Thanks, will have to try to find Sin Garden then!
Completely agree that the scents aren't nearly so creative as the clothes, but that seems to be (nearly) always the way. The scents finance the clothes, in more than one case.
The only place I saw Anglomania in the US (in-person) was in TJ Maxx, but the line can be found on the internet, and perhaps some mainstream store that I don't know about carries them.
Is it just me or does it seem like it could be a light version of Flowerbomb? At any rate, I'll try it.
Could be, although VR just did their own light version (the new EdT). We'll see!
Indeed, the scents do finance the clothes, and allow some designers to maintain their creative vision with clothes that just aren't usually big money-makers. Ironically, they need to appeal to the mass-market in order to keep creating designs which have little mass-market appeal. But I keep hoping, dreaming, in some silly art-for-art's-sake fantasy, that a designer will come along who refuses to do *anything* mainstream, who will maintain absolute artistic integrity in every aspect of their work, from fragrance to clothing. I actually thought Thierry Mugler fit that description (yes, Angel was a huge hit, but it was also *truly* original, as was his clothing) until I saw he recently did a fragrance “exclusively for Victoria's Secret”….*sigh*
Comme des Garcons has come close. I'm sure there are others, but they aren't coming to mind at the moment.
You're right, how could I have forgotten CDG? Love their stuff, and they seem to have pretty much maintained their vision 100 %. And yeah, I'm sure there are others, but fore some reason I'm drawing a blank, too.