Serge Lutens will launch Laine de Verre in February. Laine de Verre (Glass Wool) is the third fragrance in the L’Eau series that already includes 2010’s L’Eau Serge Lutens and 2012’s L’Eau Froide…
Prestige via limitation
I won’t die because there’s a bottle there or here. And more and more I find it very stupid to create prestige via limitation. It’s a little jerkish. It’s as if prestige were to be found nowhere. What is exclusive, is us. It’s you. It’s you who are as a person, who chooses. If something is difficult or hard to find, it’s not that which confers value for me...
— Serge Lutens, on why he decided to make all of his fragrances available at his US web store (previously, many of the fragrances were only available in his Paris boutique). Read more at An Interview With Serge Lutens at Grey Magazine.
Serge Lutens Chergui ~ fragrance review
Dallying with Tom Ford Private Blend Tobacco Oud sent me looking for my sample of Serge Lutens Chergui. It had probably been a couple of years since I’d smelled it. When it took more than a minute to find the tiny vial in a shoebox of samples, I wondered why I was going to all the trouble. Chergui is tobacco and hay. A nice spicy oriental. I know what this one is all about, right? Wrong.
As I’ve been discovering lately with other fragrances I’ve haven’t smelled in a while, Chergui is not exactly what I remembered. Maybe it’s because I’ve sampled so many perfumes between now and the last time I sniffed Chergui and so have a larger frame of reference. Or maybe my taste is changing. But today Chergui to me smells much more complete and complex than I’d remembered…
Holiday fragrance gifts 2013, part 8
Our last holiday gift post for 2013 is all about luxury, just in case anyone hasn’t yet run through all their funds for the year. Listed in order from what-a-bargain to holy-cow-you’ve-got-to-be-kidding. Warning: you may need to dim your computer screen lest you be blinded by all the Swarovski & bling.
If you missed them, check out Part 1: scented body products, Part 2: travel sizes & coffrets, Part 3: home fragrance, Part 4: gifts for men, Part 5: teas & sweets, Part 6: more travel sizes & coffrets and Part 7: budget options.
Starting off simple, with Jour d’Hermès in Extrait: “Jour d’Hermès pure parfum is an eminently feminine scent full of generosity and depth. $225 for 15 ml at Nordstrom…
Holiday fragrance gifts 2013, part 6
Our series of holiday gift posts continues with more travel sizes and coffrets, plus a couple solid perfumes and one more fragrance subscription program. There are two more posts to go: budget options / stocking stuffers and luxury items.
If you missed them, check out Part 1: scented body products, Part 2: travel sizes & coffrets, Part 3: home fragrance, Part 4: gifts for men and Part 5: teas & sweets.
More shopping ideas: see the Scented Hound’s Gift Guide.
From Hermès, a gift set in the L’Ambre des Merveilles fragrance, with 15 and 100 ml bottles of Eau de parfum plus Perfumed body lotion and Perfumed shower and bath gel. $149 at Hermès…