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