A Lab On Fire, a brand that is associated with the S-Perfume label, has launched their debut scent, L'Anonyme ou OP-1475-A:
It started with a simple question: "Why is a bottle of niche fragrance so expensive?" Next to some niche brands, Chanel is a bargain. It didn't take us long to find out a simple fact—if an awesome designer soap bar can be less than twenty dollars, so can be a fragrance created by the brightest talent using the best materials.
We are proud to offer this precious amount of scent created by the fabulous Olivier Polge for just FIFTEEN US dollars (+ $15 shipping fee anywhere in the world)!
The notes for the "spiritual, minimalist" fragrance include bergamot, geranium, blonde woods, white amber and suede leather.
A Lab On Fire L'Anonyme ou OP-1475-A is currently exclusive to Colette in Paris, where it is €24 (including VAT) for 15 ml Eau de Toilette. (quote via A Lab On Fire at Facebook, additional information via colette.fr)
Please make this a thing–the niche 15 ml (I know that CB:IHP has been doing them for years and probably others, but I want it to be a worldwide thing).
It would certainly be fine with me! I do wish L’Artisan would bring their 15 ml back, it was so wonderful. And they stopped carrying just before the recession, in other words just when we really needed them!
Ain’t that the truth Robin.
🙂
It’s true…I saw the price of Coromandel and couldn’t believe that it was such a bargain
Whereas with shipping, this comes out to $2 a ml, which I don’t think is much of a bargain. I do like the small size though.
Wouldn’t it be something if this really turned out to be a great fragrance? I like what they’re trying to do here, let’s see if the juice can deliver.
Hmmm. I like the idea of reasonably priced niche, but I do think there are already lots of reasonably priced niche brands — they’re not all outrageous. If this is better than most, fine, but otherwise, it’s just more hot air to me, esp. given that they’re going to double the price just to ship it to you. There are many, many niche brands that I can buy for less than $2 a ml including shipping, esp since on most of them I can easily find free shipping deals. To give just one example, Diptyque’s latest comes out to exactly $2 per ml, and I could have it shipped free to me today.
If it’s great stuff though, then I’m all for it! I do hope they come up with better names though. Or at least names I can remember.
That brand name is a little odd. I’m a chemist, and if I were to get this fragrance, I would have to make up a name. I can just imagine it now:
Coworker: “What is that?”
Me: “A Lab On Fire.”
Fast forward a week:
Friend: “How did you lose your job?”
Me: “I yelled fire in a crowded lab.”
Ha! Good point! Maybe I shouldn’t consider this one a work fragrance, either! My science students might consider it a suggestion! 🙂
The name of the line is rather off-putting to me anyway. I cannot imagine that a burning lab would smell at all pleasant. A lab not on fire isn’t exactly an olfactory paradise. One of my reasons for wearing perfume is to counteract Eau du Laboratoire.
Yes! I remember using copious amounts of acetone to clean glassware in chem lab in college–not a pleasant smell! Oh, and there’s always various acids, sulpherous compounds, and other lovelies! Then, there’s that strange mustiness that I associate with large, open buildings like my science hall. You’d think the hoods would help with that!
The Shaping Room kindly sent me one of these along with my order of 100% Love – I love, love, love 100% Love!
L’Anonyme is light and less citrusy than most colognes. It seems pleasant, but I’m waiting for summer heat and humidity to be able to really put it to the test.
BTW, that metal rectangle at the upper edge of the perfume puddle in the photo is actually the label, and the cap is translucent silicon (same as 100% Love and S-ex), the photo background is the silvery vinyl bag that it comes in (instead of a box). The design is very coherent.
It sounds like it didn’t make much of an impression on you. Yes, that bottle cap looks like 100% Love. I am more than halfway through my bottle of 100% Love, which makes it, well, one of my most loved perfumes in the past three years since I became more-than-interested in perfume.
I just can’t tell since I got it in the late winter, and chilly winter air, dried out by artificial heating is the wrong time to test a light cologne. I’m suspending judgement until June at least.
100% Love is just so delicious. LT was amazed that a perfume could be simultaneously weird and comforting. I don’t really find it weird at all, except I guess it’s weird that something that smells like the world’s most delectable, almost buttery chocolate raspberry truffle also manages to smell like perfume rather than food.