French niche brand Serge Lutens has launched five new fragrances in the luxury Section d'Or series that began with L'Incendiaire: Cracheuse de Flammes, Renard Constrictor, Cannibale, Sidi Bel-Abbès and L'Haleine des Dieux.
Cracheuse de Flammes ~ "Seduction is a weapon, the flames a language. I breathe the fire which ignites her passion! And in this war of fire, all that remains of the woman, the rose in this instance, is a burning passion."
Renard Constrictor ~ "The memory is but fleeting, it refuses to remain in my conscience. Like a timid furry creature, it retracts at a caress. It is a fear that stifles the hero."
Cannibale ~ "The cannibal is famished. How can we mention him without a reference to love? It leaves a vibrant acidity on the nose and on the skin, reminiscent of the floral vinegars of 18th century France."
Sidi Bel-Abbès ~ "From a forgotten time, an erased past, all that remains in our memory is the footprint in the sand of an anonymous love."
L'Haleine des Dieux ~ "The minuscule white flower which is sometimes added to a bouquet of roses is called gypsophila. In the UK it also goes by the name of baby’s breath. The volume it creates is the volume I had in mind, a misty breath of my gods, but in actual fact, I am God, the Devil and a woman!"
Serge Lutens Cracheuse de Flammes, Renard Constrictor, Cannibale, Sidi Bel-Abbès and L'Haleine des Dieux are available now at Le Palais Royal - Serge Lutens in Paris, in 50 ml Extrait de Parfum.
(via Serge Lutens at Facebook)
…… Well…OK!?
Reading Lutens descriptions sober is always tricky. I’ll reread this tonight after a few extra dry martini, maybe it will all make sense then.
You may need something harder than drinks to make sense of his yammering.
I will read something else over my evening drink…
I …. can’t with him! I get that he has some good scents under his belt, but all this… flowery drivel drives me up a wall! It’s so pretentious it makes me embarrassed for him. Like he would know what a floral vinegar from 18th century France smells like! God, devil and a woman? *head*desk*
The pretentiousness was ok with me when the fragrances were “beyond compare”, to use a pretentious phrase 🙂
Now, yeah, it’s sort of uncomfortable to read. So I mostly don’t.
I am 100 per cent with you on that. His copy was always ridiculous, but the scents on the whole were so good that he could have said nearly anything and I still would have loved them. Now he’s taken such a headlong slide into mediocrity that I’m a little heartbroken: nothing earth-shaking since Jeux de Peau in 2011, and the price for the new Section d’Or scents is an insult and a joke, even if they were great, which I have no reason to believe they would be.
I found lincendiaire really linear and quite boring especially given the hype and the price – if these all follow the same pricing and linearity then I’ll pass. When I was last in Liberty the sampler bottle of l’incendiaire was completely empty – I’m guessing given the the price people have been drowning themselves in it for free – I couldn’t even work up that much enthusiasm.
The copy is atrocious – what on earth does a cannibal have to do with love and 18th century floral vinegars?!
I would assume the pricing will be similar.
I refuse to worry about the meaning of the copy!
Not very interested
A rose scent, a baby’s breath scent, and a ‘floral vinegar’? So I guess more of the same old tired florals from Serge, only this time with a $600 price tag? I’m out.
The copy is crazy, but I would be interested in trying them if it wasn’t for the ridiculous, insulting price. As it stands I am completely uninterested.