French fashion and luxury house Celine has launched Rimbaud, a new powdery unisex addition to the Celine Haute Parfumerie Collection. Rimbaud was inspired by French poet Arthur Rimbaud.
Inspired by the French poet of the same name, everything about this scent plays on duality: light and dark; the freshness of lavender in men’s colognes and the more feminine, powdery accents of iris root. Stylish yet unassuming, it’s like the white shirt of the fragrance world.
Celine Rimbaud is available in 100 and 200 ml Eau de Parfum. It is currently available at the brand's flagship in Paris and will go into wider distribution later this month.
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Update: the description from the Celine website...
Celine Rimbaud is $240 for 100 ml or $355 for 200 ml.A hypersensitive portrait, both intimate and symbolic. The portrait of a 17-year-old poet that Hedi Slimane discovered as a teenager and that of an entire generation of young people photographed by the couturier over the past thirty years.
As if suspended on a taut and fragile wire somewhere between childhood and adulthood, the effervescence of a neo-classic lavender is tempered by the delicacy of a powdery veil of iris.
Lavender, neroli, orris butter, wheat accord, musk and vanilla notes.
Celine perfumes don’t seem to get talked up that much, but the ones I have sniffed have been nicely done, if rather up there in price.
I think because they are not that widely distributed? I don’t know, but you’re right they don’t get mentioned here much.
Was looking forward to this one. For some reason two fragrances (Rimbaud and Bois Dormant) were held back when they first launched a big group back in 2019. Had a chance to sample them at the Celine shop in Hong Kong – came home with two bottles and samples of the rest. Very well done lineup. The bottles, the packaging, the right wardrobe of scents – it’s all perfect. Even the presentation on the sales floor is great, lining up fragrances in specific order to be worn from morning to night.
They are impossible to find here in Canada. Only available at selected Celine shops – so a handful of doors worldwide. I guess that makes them exclusive by default (although their pricing also helps ?). But their creative director Hedi Slimane hasn’t put out a bad fragrance, so I’m going to break my rules and blind buy…. Will I ever learn??
Well, it wouldn’t be a blind buy if you have tried the samples – not that I am enabling or anything…
They make a nice coffret of 10ml bottles.