Niche line Régime des Fleurs has launched Là-Bas, a new fragrance for men…
The most calming, cooling, sweet scent
It depends on what kind of love you’re talking about. But I think real love — not lust, not passion, but just love — smells like fresh lilacs. It’s the most calming, cooling, sweet scent. They smell alive, but also soft, and you just don’t want to be away from it.
— Alia Raza of Régime des Fleurs on the smell of love. Read more in The Perfumer Whose Sheets Smell Like Rose Water at The Cut.
Floraiku In the Rain, Regime des Fleurs Rock River Melody, The Observer Collection Homesick. ~ fragrance reviews
I’ve mentioned before that I’m a city-dweller and a homebody with a very low degree of wanderlust. However, after the forced confinement of 2020 and early 2021, I felt the need to escape my urban surroundings and my daily routine for a few days. A few days at an inn in a wooded riverside landscape turned out to be just what I needed; even two hours’ travel from New York, there’s enough greenery and quiet solitude to shift my perspective.
Returning to my metropolitan perch, I found myself reaching for a few nature-themed, “green”-heavy fragrances that I’d gathered into a little pile earlier in the summer. They’ve been helping me to extend that outdoorsy mood a little longer, even as I settle down at my laptop with my window view of adjacent apartment buildings. Here are three I can recommend for sensory refreshment and mental wanderings…
Regime des Fleurs Nuits d’Eden ~ new fragrance
Niche line Régime des Fleurs will launch Nuits d’Éden, a new limited edition perfume in collaboration with visual artist Rachel Rose for the Lafayette Anticipations multidisciplinary art center in Paris…
The (almost) daily lemming
I have been painting my kitchen this week and too distracted to lemm anything (other than having someone else paint my kitchen), but an email from Arielle Shoshana this morning took care of that: "Régime des Fleurs' new Acanthus candle smells like sticking your head into a lilac bush and breathing deeply. It smells like a 70º April day, warm breeze tugging at the last of the cherry blossom petals. It smells like the spring we missed this year." Aha. $95.