Niche line Régime des Fleurs has launched Gold Smoke, a new limited edition fragrance…
Regime des Fleurs Fleur Eclair, Arquiste Almond Suede & Isabelle Larignon Milky Dragon ~ fragrance reviews
Good evening, Now Smell This: it has recently come to my attention (to paraphrase actor Drew Droege playing “Chloé Sevigny”) that I crave gourmand perfumes. At least, that’s what a dozen “trend pieces” have recently told me. The trend cycle goes around and around, of course: people have liked wearing vanilla-accented and/or sweet-smelling fragrances for a long time, whether you look back a century to Guerlain Shalimar or just twenty-odd years to Bath & Body Works Warm Vanilla Sugar, Aquolina Pink Sugar and Britney Spears Fantasy (with its then-novel “cupcake accord”). Where to begin, if you’re curious about some of the latest gourmand scents? New releases are spawning at an unprecedented rate these days, and I can’t even pretend to be fully up-to-date, but here are two freshly “baked” fragrances that I’m enjoying, plus one from 2021 that has also captured my imagination.
I’ve been trying for a while to make the term “fleurmand” catch on, but it hasn’t, which is a shame because I’d love to use it here to describe Régime des Fleurs Fleur Éclair…
Regime des Fleurs Fleur Eclair ~ new fragrance
Niche line Régime des Fleurs has launched Fleur Éclair, a new gourmand fragrance…
Regime des Fleurs Blood Spider Orchids ~ new fragrance
Niche line Régime des Fleurs has launched Blood Spider Orchids, a new limited edition fragrance…
We like to use the word ‘fresh’
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.