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A delicate custom scent

Posted by Robin on 16 January 2020 5 Comments

This includes Bali Barret, overseer of all the house’s women’s offerings, to consult on the colors. (She and Touron have Hermès’s library of 75,000 silk swatches and 900 leather shades, complete with pigment formulas, some around a hundred years old, to play with.) Christine Nagel, Hermès’s perfumer, created a delicate custom scent for the lipsticks. And Pierre Hardy, creative director of jewelry and shoes, designed the graphic packaging, which is made of lacquered metal and Hermès’s “permabrass” hardware (the same that is used on its handbags).

—  Hermès moves into makeup with the Rouge Hermès lipstick (24 colors, $67, refills $42). Read more in Is This the Birkin Bag of Lipstick? at Wall Street Journal.

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Tagged With: christine nagel, hermes

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  1. Lovestosmellgood says:
    16 January 2020 at 9:33 am

    When I bought my By Killian lippy, I thought that is the highest price I will ever pay for something that goes on my lips and comes off when I sip my morning chai tea!
    I know what I am paying for when I bought it, the scent of Love, the packaging, the marketing, but not really a “revolutionary lipstick”.
    Almost $70…rolling my eyes!

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    • Robin says:
      16 January 2020 at 10:08 am

      I do like the idea of refillable (and I love the outer packaging). I basically keep one MAC lipstick, wear it rarely, and have been using the same color for more years than I can even figure. I can see paying some stupid amount of money for a nicer case, and I’m surprised MAC hasn’t found a way already to make me do so :-)

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  2. LizzieB says:
    16 January 2020 at 9:56 am

    I read this article and immediately came to NST to see if you’d posted it. I admit…I’m kind of lemming. But I need this like I need a hole in the head. I will want to see the colors, though. There’s something uplifting about checking out lipstick colors.

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    • Robin says:
      16 January 2020 at 10:09 am

      Oh, I have the opposite experience because so many look awful on me! There is something uplifting about shopping for paint colors, or new shirts, though, so I do get the idea!

      (And adding that there was a time in my life when I apparently had nearly endless time to consider eyeshadow colors, which is also about the same thing.)

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  3. Koyel says:
    16 January 2020 at 12:52 pm

    If there were any brand that could convince me to spend a ridonkulous amount of money on a tube of lipstick, it would be Hermes. (Or possibly also Chanel.)

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