Bond no. 9 will launch Andy Warhol Success is a Job in New York, a new fragrance inspired by cash and named for an article Warhol illustrated for Glamour magazine in the 1950s*. Success is a Job in New York is the fourth fragrance in the Bond no. 9 Andy Warhol series, which already includes Andy Warhol Silver Factory, Andy Warhol Union Square and Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue.
Just like money, the scent is genderless—a warm and spicy gourmand. And just like money, it lures and intoxicates all who give it a sniff. Its spicy-citrussy top- notes—coriander, cardamom, mandarin, bergamot—lead into a throbbing heart of jasmine, tuberose, rose, plum and pimento (of all things) that eventually segues into an oriental base of vanilla, patchouli, and amber.
The bottle features an Andy Warhol dollar sign from 1981: blue on one side of the bottle, orange on the other.
Bond no. 9 Andy Warhol Success is a Job in New York will launch in October, in 50 ($145) and 100 ($220) ml Eau de Parfum. (via press release)
* The title was later used for the book Success Is a Job in New York: The Early Art and Business of Andy Warhol. Bond no. 9 is guessing it's the longest fragrance name ever: can that be right? Do comment if you know of a longer one.
Update: the perfumer for Andy Warhol Success Is a Job in New York was Claude Dir.
It depends on what you consider part of the name. With brands in tow, for example, there is Acqua di Parma Blu Mediterraneo Fico di Amalfi.
A gorgeous bottle as always, but I must say it seems terribly out of step with the times. Very pre-October 2008…
The price is very pre-October 2008 as well — I don’t know that I realized the B#9s had become so pricey.
It’s actually cheaper than the first AW scent. Not that that’s cheap, mind you.
I think they’re counting the whole thing: Bond no. 9 Andy Warhol Success is a Job in New York. It is a darned long name. I like it though.
I think they see the economic mess as all the more reason — here’s the opening of the press release “Perfumes have always trafficked in the elusive and the taboo. And since nothing could be more elusive than money, particularly in our current economic downturn, we’ve made cash the inspiration and focus for the latest in the Bond No. 9 series of collectible Andy Warhol eaux de parfum”
Yah, yah, yah. I bet they had this in the pipeline before the crash and then they had to come up with a justification. Not a bad job, but in a city where people are still requesting plain paper bags at Hermes that dollar sign is going to grate on a lot of people’s nerves I’m guessing…
You could be right, and the “inspired by money” part is not so interesting to me as the name, which I love. All I can say is that I’m astonished at how many luxury releases we’re still seeing, and by all accounts that market niche is doing better than the mainstream fragrance market. I mean, $145 for 50 ml is nothing compared to what we’re seeing elsewhere.
Totally agree with all of the above, R. The people who were buying handbags for thousands of dollars need something to spend their money on. But though the market is quite definitely there, Warhol’s brand of arch irony and unapologetic love of spendy glamour are just all wrong for the new austerity. Granted this moment will last about five minutes longer, and Bond may indeed be just ahead of the curve…
A, are you seeing a “new austerity”? Because it might just be where I live, but I’m really not.
Well I’m hearing a lot of talk about it, LOL! Charitable giving at schmancy fundraisers is way, way, down across the board–a lot of my non-profit friends are hurting–and there does seem to be a wish for less glitz in the glamour. Not saying at all that people are spending less, just that they wish to be slightly less ostentatious, which, in Texas, is all very relative…
But as I said above, I don’t have much faith in that moment lasting very long…maybe it’s already over where you live!
It seems very regional. Everybody complains about what happened to their retirement $, but I don’t know a single soul who has lost their job…don’t see people living in tent cities except on the news, etc. Bought a new car a couple months ago and the dealership was PACKED…they told me sales were up, up, up, and that people were still mostly buying SUVs.
I think the name is stupid, the bottle is stupid, and I’ve hated all their other Andy Warhol perfumes. But damned if I won’t give this one a try, too, because I’m a sucker.
LOL…you made me spew my tea!
I adored Silver Factory and really liked Lexington Avenue, so I’m more hopeful than you 🙂
I should print this, frame it and hang it beside the perfume cabinet.
Economic Woes Be Damned! 🙂 If people don’t spend money, then nothing will succeed! I love the notes of this fragrance and have never been really overly impressed with any Bond Fragrance, almost all are good but nothing to drive me mad… THIS Sounds like it will drive me INSANE! in a Grand way! 🙂 I don’t make a lot of money (i work in retail) and am thousands of dollars in Credit card Debt… But i do still save up for the luxuries that i must have to keep one from teetering on the brink of madness or worse… Money should be spent to make one happy as well as keep one alive… but being alive and unhappy is not a perfect marriage! So, be happy while you live and if you want it, save some change to buy it and make yourself happy, you owe it to yourself! I know i will be saving for this one!
That was awesome.
I’ll go for the “make yourself happy” part, but watch that credit card debt!
I needed that! I have a teeny bit of extra money and have been spending it on perfume because I NEED to or DIE – lol. Now I don’t feel quite as guilty – lol.
But yeah, watch that CC – if you are paying it down and saving for what you want – good for you!
‘ I don’t make a lot of money (i work in retail) and am thousands of dollars in Credit card Debt…’ Unbelievable!!!!!
‘But i do still save up for the luxuries…’: you cannot save money that doesn’t belong to you. That money belongs to your creditors.
Yes…don’t forget to sock a little away for ‘retirement’ too. You might accidentally live to a ripe old age.
This probably was in the pipeline prior ot the big collapse. I wonder how much “Wall St.” they’re moving these days?
But I still love Chinatown & AWSF.
My sister likes to spend her money on ~*small luxuries*~ and that’s why we aren’t going on our trip to Germany this summer.
She tried to buy Black Orchid and I was like “Helloooo this is our hostel in Berlin!!!!!”
Hmm, I’m intrigued by the notes. Even though Bond no. 9’s almost never end up being something I’d wear (regularly anyway), I always seem to want to try them … I really liked Silver Factory, found Union Square too aquatic, and still haven’t tried Lexington Avenue.
I didn’t like Union Square either. The other 2, I really did…Silver Factory, I think, is the most interesting scent Bond has done so far, even outside the AW range.
I think Silver Factory is one of my favorite Bonds too … my favorite probably being Chinatown. But I haven’t tried them all!
I have to admit, those notes aren’t doing a thing for me and don’t sound like anything new from the Bond people.
I’ve never met anyone else who’s said this but Andy Warhol genuinely scares me. I can’t qualify that with anything concrete but I just get a bad vibe every time I hear something about him.
I used to wear Chinatown four and a half years ago and, to me, they haven’t made a fragrance that good since.
Chinatown is a great scent. I do think AWSF is as good, but that’s a matter of personal preference obviously!
Hey, Super Long–watch “Factory Girl” and it may qualify some of your vibes. Some of it was fictionalized, but I don’t think it changes the fact that Andy Warhol was not always the kindest man.
I think Ciao! Manhattan would qualify any creepy vibes.
I think Andy’s sort of creepy, too.
I once saw him in New York — outside Saks — and he was pretty darn creepy in person, too. I wonder what he was like back when he was doing his sweetly whimsical illustrations for fashion mags, before he turned himself into “Andy Warhol.”
I like the name but am not wild about the bottle. I don’t usually like dollar signs as decoration but I guess it makes sense here.
I am interested in smelling this and am still to new to perfume to be able to tell much from the listed notes. I really liked AW Silver Factory and I quite liked New Haarlem (mmmm breakfast!). I was not so crazy about Chinatown and I didn’t really like Nuits de Noho either. I know I’ve smelled others but I don’t remember them which tells me what I need to know!
I’m not wild about the bottle either…but I guess it’s fun. And hey, nobody can tell much from the notes.
Truly love Union Square, purchased both Union Square and Lexington Avenue, but only wear Union Square. I do like the Lexington Avenue bottle. This one I think I will wait for another launch. By the way, wearing Astor Place today, it is wearable, but don’t think I would do a fb.
The Union Square bottle was great. I’d love to have Silver Factory in the Union Square bottle.
I really need to smell more Bonds. I love Chinatown and Silver Factory, and am intrigued by several others.
Unlike the majority here I am seriously wanting that bottle but I have always liked that image, anyway.
I’m not hating the bottle, I’m just not loving it. Although also think I’d like it better in other colors.
OK, are we talking number of words? Number of characters, including spaces? Letters?
B Never Too Busy to Be Beautiful Two Hearts Beating as One = 12 words, 58 characters, 47 letters
Bond No. 9 Andy Warhol Success Is a Job in New York = 12 words, 51 characters, 39 letters/numbers
Fail, Bond No. 9! And yes, I am a bit anal, why do you ask?
Excellent, thanks!
HAW HAW! You made my day, lilydale!
And I agree with you, Andy was a creepy gent. I also happened to see him once uptown, standing with a chatty man I didn’t recognize – from across the street I felt unnerved. Good work when you can creep out a party of young punks.
ROTFL! Luckily, I had just swallowed and set my cup of tea down before reading Miss Kitty’s comment above. But this one got me! Didn’t spew on the keyboard, but almost choked. Hysterical, and I really appreciate A-R.
I love Andy Warhol Silver Factory. Of all my fragrances I definitely wear it the most often. It genuinely seems to change itself up a bit too, sometimes heavy on the incense, other times heavier on the florals. Craziness.
And according to most of our world leaders, spending up is the way to quicken recession-recovery, obscene stimulus packages and all. So if Bond no. 9 went nuts on marketing this fragrance on billboards and tv-advertisements and everything grande, it could become an icon for econmic recovery. I mean they’ve done half the work with that title and gorgeous bottle. “NY, big visible (or smellable?) spending is BACK!” (Seriously someone do this, inject some fun into this economic crisis)
SF is a great scent. I might be wrong, but I didn’t remember it being in 50 ml…wonder if it is now?
It was only available in 100ml when it was first released. They now offer a 50ml size as well.
Thanks Carlos!
If we take AWSIAJINY as being 40 characters including spaces, then here’s a selection what I’ve got that’s longer (house is in brackets and not counted in count)
I’ve included spaces in the char count, as it was quicker..
The Great Red Dragon And The Woman Clothed With The Sun (BPAL)
L’Instant de Guerlain Pour Homme Cristaux d’Agrumes (Guerlain)
The Arrival At The Sabbath And Homage To The Devil (BPAL)
Insensé Ultramarine Aromatic Ocean – Midnight Swim (Givenchy)
I Coloniali Aromatic Fragrance of Javanese Cananga (Atkinsons)
L’Eau d’Issey pour Homme Eau d’Été Summer Edition (Issey Miyake)
L’Instant de Guerlain Eau de Noël Iris Millésime (Guerlain)
l’eau de parfum #3 green, green, green and green (Miller et Berteaux)
Opium pour Homme Poésie de Chine Eau d’Orient (YSL)
parfums*PARFUMS series 8 Energy C Grapefruit (CdG)
Essence of United Colors of Benetton Woman
etc etc
Never tried any Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab stuff… but they have really clever names. I think I was intrigued with the Alice in Wonderland scents, and the Shakespeare ones, as far as I remember… BPAL may be the next teeny niche house I investigate, once I’ve smelled the DSH that appeals to me. (Could take a while!)
I’m pretty sure The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed With the Sun is a William Blake painting AND a reference to Revelations.
Now I’m wondering why ELdO copy really, really annoys me while I find BPAL clever…
Oh, another Alice fan? My sn is from another work by Lewis Carroll. 🙂 I have several of the BPAL Alice scents, have sniffed but not really finished with them. Of course, they’re all oils, and I haven’t had great luck with those.
I like BPAL’s White Rabbit and Red Queen, but I don’t have good luck with oils either so haven’t sampled any BPAL in a while.
Jill, Red Queen was my favorite too. White Rabbit I only got a quick sniff, bc we got that one for my niece, who seems to have all the same quirky interests I do.
Perfect, huge thanks Grant! They are counting “Bond no. 9” too, so I think “Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab The Great Red Dragon And The Woman Clothed With The Sun” is the right way to do it…and it wins, hands down!
Names, names. I don’t want to say, “I’m wearing Bond No. 9 Blabberty-blabberty-yadda-yadda-boompetybump-tralala.” Would rather say, “You like it? It’s Scent.”
AHHAHAHAHAHAHA yeah, that’s right, but now I’ve got coffee in my nose!
LOL!
Exactly what we all need right now: Money 😉
Maybe with the power of suggestion, having this big dollar sign in front of us, things will finally start looking up?
Maybe! I’ll take the cash though 😉
The bottle looks great! And I love warm, spicy orientals. But most Bond fragrances are smelling like other (and cheaper!) perfumes and stay to close to the skin, so I don’t have big hopes for this one.
I have only smelled one Andy Warhol fragrance, it was the Union Square. It was horrible, like hairspray!
Do at least try the Silver Factory…you might not like it, but it’s nothing like hairspray!
I can’t WAAAAAAIT to smell this! Thanks, Robin!
De nada!
Warm, spicy and gourmand?? I am so there, I bet this smells fabulous!
But, I hate that bottle…
I still say Bond should let you pick your bottle from all their designs 😉
I just hope this is a REAL gourmand! They said Bleecker Street was a gourmand
BS wasn’t foody, it’s true, although I think they officially called it an oriental woody gourmand, which wouldn’t necessarily be a sweet dessert scent. This one doesn’t sound like sweet dessert either, does it?
I just smelled this on Thursday – it is really yummy. The description is accurate, it is a spicy gourmand, along the same lines as Chinatown and Lexington Avenue (I like it better than Lexington and less than Chinatown). I am definitely going to be buying a bottle of this!
Thanks!
Where did you smell this? Are the testers at Saks??