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Serge Lutens La Dompteuse Encagee ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 8 February 2021 15 Comments

French niche house Serge Lutens will launch La Dompteuse Encagée, a new fragrance in the brand's Collection Noire.

Just as Joan of Arc, at her trial, could not swear to her judges whether her apparitions were clothed or naked, I cannot swear to it either. Her determination is like marble: cold and powdery white. Nonetheless, I sense the snow – so dreaded, yet desired – the avalanche is on its way. She provokes him by reminding him his injuries: All the screams you swallowed, and suffered in silence, will come pouring out! But they will barely be recognisable to themselves any more than to you, or perhaps in a past caught in the mirror, where you lose sight of yourself.

Notes for the gourmand floral include frangipani, almond and ylang-ylang.

Serge Lutens La Dompteuse Encagée will be available in 100 ml Eau de Parfum.

(quote via vertigomag.co.uk, additional information via holtrenfrew)

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  1. Dorsey says:
    8 February 2021 at 1:02 pm

    Joan of Arc doesn’t scream “gourmand floral” to me….but I do love almond.

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    • Robin says:
      8 February 2021 at 3:26 pm

      I will wait to hear if it smells worth trying :-)

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    • Merlin says:
      8 February 2021 at 4:39 pm

      Yeah, I love the idea of a Joan of Arc perfume – perverse though that may be – but almond and frangipani – WUTT!?

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  2. hemabelle says:
    8 February 2021 at 1:11 pm

    This is the most confusing ad copy I’ve read in a while. I thought it would have metallic ozone notes, but nope.

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    • Robin says:
      8 February 2021 at 3:25 pm

      I suppose, but it seems no weirder than most Serge Lutens quotes.

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  3. Dilana says:
    8 February 2021 at 1:49 pm

    Dompteuse is apparently french for a (female) animal trainer. So I think the translation for the name of this fragrance is Caged Lady Animal Trainer. This is not how I think of Joan of Arc. Neither Caged Lady Animal Trainer nor Joan of Arc make me think of passionate, powdery marble. Actually, the only thing that I associate with passionate and powdery and marble, is my Art History teachers decrying the effects of contemporary air pollution on outdoor renaissance sculpture.

    I also don’t think of Joan of Arc in connection of S&M like games where you taunt your lover into naming his injuries while suffering in silence. Joan probably would have wanted a lover to declare a commitment to driving the Brittish out of Paris. But maybe I fail to understand some erotic charge the young saint has upon the imagination of French school boys.

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    • pyramus says:
      8 February 2021 at 1:54 pm

      Lutens ad copy has always been sort of deranged. Maybe it’s a specifically French literary thing? I dunno. This one is a new peak in weirdness, though: every sentence seems to up the ante further.

      It’s neither here nor there for me, because I doubt I’ll be trying this. I used to be the biggest Lutens drum-beater but his work has left me cold for a decade now — and worse, perpetual reformulations have reduced even his standbys to a shadow of their former selves.

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      • Merlin says:
        8 February 2021 at 4:42 pm

        I can’t read French but I find English translations of French literature to always sound like hyperbole maxed out on steroids and tottering on stilts…

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      • Lisa D says:
        8 February 2021 at 6:06 pm

        Same for me, pyramus. Serge Lutens was one of the houses that tossed me down the rabbit hole many moons ago, but I haven’t loved much of his recent work.

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    • Robin says:
      8 February 2021 at 3:31 pm

      I had heard “caged tamer”, which does have a slightly different nuance than trainer. But I do not speak French.

      Seems to me that the wisest course with Serge Lutens is to ignore the announcement altogether, forget all about it, and later if it is a fabulous fragrance you are bound to hear about it.

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      • Kevin says:
        8 February 2021 at 4:00 pm

        R: True…and I’ve not heard anyone raving about a Lutens fragrance in a long, long, long time.

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    • samberg says:
      9 February 2021 at 8:01 pm

      Insightful comment, Dilana, the ad copy had me feeling repulsed before I got to the notes that I would otherwise rather enjoy.

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  4. cazaubon says:
    8 February 2021 at 6:30 pm

    It sounds good to me, I enjoyed his last one Fils de Joie.

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  5. Calypso says:
    8 February 2021 at 7:53 pm

    That ad copy is totally nuts! I’m going to stay miles away from this!

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  6. plume says:
    9 February 2021 at 6:26 am

    RIP this line, which I refuse to call Serge Lutens as it has been reduced to little more than Shiseido tap-dancing on the grave of his long-abandoned creativity.

    What an unmitigated disaster.

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