Designer Dries Van Noten has launched two new “fresh contemporary” unisex fragrances, Orange Smoke and Sur Ma Peau. The scents can be worn alone or layered with any of the ten fragrances in the collection introduced earlier this year…
The more character they have the better
Van Noten chose not to try out the fragrances with test audiences to see how they reacted to the products because “quite often they are made a little bit easier, which I didn’t want to do. The more character they have the better.”
— Designer Dries Van Noten talking about his new fragrances. Read more in Dries Van Noten: fragrance is ‘another layer, another emotion’ at Financial Times.
Dries Van Noten x 10 ~ new perfumes
Designer Dries Van Noten will launch a new beauty line this week, including 10 fragrances…
Far more complicated than I thought it was going to be
I missed this earlier in the year: Dries Van Noten and Frédéric Malle talk about their collaboration on Dries Van Noten par Frédéric Malle. (They start out by talking about how great Barneys is though. Skip to 1:10 if you don't care.)
Dries Van Noten par Frederic Malle ~ fragrance review
Dries Van Noten par Frédéric Malle is the first entry in a new collection from the Frédéric Malle brand: XXX par Frédéric Malle, in which Mr. Malle promises to “translate the world of people and brands that [he admires] into scents”.1 The Belgian designer Dries Van Noten is up first, and most long time readers could probably guess that I don’t know Dries Van Noten from Adam, but after reading in Wikipedia (where else?) that Mr. Van Noten does not do haute couture because “I’m a little naive but I don’t like the idea of showing things that you don’t sell in a store”, he has already stolen my heart.2
Reportedly, it took 18 months for Malle to translate the Van Noten universe into scent, working with perfumer Bruno Jovanovic:
Then I tried to make Bruno understand the essence of Dries’ world. I spoke about the different themes and recurrent materials that my hero often uses: Indian embroidery, XVIIIth century engravings, or the very graphic and colorful prints that he juxtaposes to create unexpected harmony — just like a perfumer does…