Niche line Régime des Fleurs has launched Personal/Space, a collection of five multi-purpose fragrances that can be used on skin, hair, or as room sprays. Waves, Falls, Vines, Leis and Shells were inspired by time spent on the island of Oahu.
Waves ~ "With crushed herbs and beachside buds, ti leaf, saltwater, ocean froth, lava rock, sea minerals, mango wood"
Falls ~ "With tropical spices, hapu’u tree ferns, rushing water, green mist, wet jungle moss, monkeypod bark, manoa red clay"
Leie ~ "With butterfly ginger lily, pua kini kini, frangipani, tuberose, jasmine sambac, black salt, ambergris"
Vines ~ "With healing herbs, overripe citrus, indigenous fig, stephanotis leaf, ambrette seed, forest musks"
Shells ~ "With li hing, liliko’i, teak resin, macadamia seed, sandalwood, vanilla oleoresin"
Régime des Fleurs Personal/Space Waves, Falls, Vines, Leis and Shells are available in 100 ml for $125 each, and are available from the brand website.
(via press release)
$125 room spray. Riiiiight.
If you just think of it as a perfume, it’s not that bad a price.
While I do not mind deciding on my own that I want to use some especially nice room spray as my perfume (I actually did it a couple of times), I do not want a producing company to decide it for me. Besides, my life experience tells me that multipurpose anything rarely serves any one of the claimed uses better than a designated product. It happens but not as often as it doesn’t.
To me all perfume is multi-purpose, so that aspect just doesn’t phase me either way. It’s how Voluspa markets their fragrance sprays, I think, and some of them do work quite nicely that way (or used to, I am behind on Voluspa like I’m behind on everything).
But agree with your general point. No matter what they say, shower gel is not shampoo, at least, not for my hair 😉
Excuse me — that’s faze! Not phase.
I may have read somewhere that room sprays are not subject to IFRA restrictions and brands are using it as a way to offer scents with more of the banned substances.
They all sound interesting, and Shells seems like a somewhat safe bet for Fall.
Hi Robin et al!
We are happy to once again offer NST readers free samples of these new fragrances. Just write to us (sales *at* regimedesfleurs *dot com*).
Thanks for the discussions, keep them going!
All the best,
Alia Raza