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We like to use the word ‘fresh’

Posted by Robin on 7 June 2024 2 Comments

And here is the narrative difficulty with Ms. Sevigny’s promotion of a rose fragrance: The scent is often associated with grandmothers.

“We like to use the word ‘fresh,’” said Ms. Sevigny, who wore rose fragrances by Comme des Garçons and Hermes for years before developing her own with her friend Alia Raza, the Régime des Fleurs founder, in 2019.

— Actress Chloë Sevigny on her fragrance, Régime des Fleurs Little Flower. Read more in Chloë Sevigny Finds Middle Age ‘Tricky’ but Loves a Scent Associated With Grandmothers at The New York Times.

Regime des Fleurs Chloe Sevigny Little Flower ~ fragrance review

Posted by Jessica on 6 September 2019 19 Comments

A collaboration with film and fashion icon Chloë Sevigny, Little Flower is Régime des Fleurs’ provocative take on Sevigny’s favorite bloom — the rose. . . . Thérèse of Lisieux, a late 19th century French nun who died at the age of 24, was referred to as ‘The Little Flower’ and became the Catholic patron saint of flowers.

Well, if you were trying to come up with a fragrance that would sound irresistible to me, you couldn’t do much better than that. I’m a life-long lover of rose perfumes and a former Catholic schoolgirl still deeply influenced by my religion’s iconography. I’ve also been following Chloë Sevigny’s work (and style) ever since her 1994 profile in The New Yorker, so I already know that she’s a serious perfume fan who used to wear Comme des Garçons Rose…

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