Bond no. 9 has launched a new fragrance in their series of Saks Fifth Avenue exclusives, Saks New Orleans:
This unisex scent wraps its arms around the essence of New Orleans. The “Big Easy” known for both elegance and decadence exudes Les Bon temps Roule – “Let the Good Times Roll”. This cosmopolitan city of the south overflows with many unique cultures. Through the opulent architecture, sensual food and dynamic music – New Orleans celebrates diversity. The fragrance, like the city, captures the ‘spices of life”, leaves an indelible aroma – Never to be Forgotten.
The notes for the oriental gourmand include tuberose, violet leaf, cassis, vanilla, black currant, lily of the valley, bergamot, mandarin, cinnamon, patchouli, amber and sandalwood.
Bond no. 9 Saks New Orleans is exclusive to the New Orleans Saks, and is $325 for 100 ml Eau de Parfum; the bottle features a Swarovski crystal fleur de lis. Laurice Rahme of Bond no. 9 will be at the New Orleans Saks to introduce the scent and sign bottles on December 4 from 2 to 6 pm and on December 5 from 11 am to 6 pm. (via press release)
Oooh! Must try! This sounds so gorgeous and it’s nice to see The Big Easy getting some much-needed love. I’ll definitely be ordering samples of this for sure.
Oooh, tell us what you think? I just spent $75 on samples, so I’m out of sampling for a while.
Yes, let us know!
I too would love to smell this and will be ordering a sample. Wish I could afford a whole bottle but not at Christmas time. Thanks for the review!
A Nawlins gourmand? Where are the praline and beignet notes? The gumbo and crawdad notes? 😉
LOL —I bet it was quite a debate in the formulation lab : “hmmm crawdads or cinnamon? Which note to use? Oh just pick one, I want to go home already….” how the big decisions get made…. 😉
I was wondering where the stale beer and urine notes were, actually – sadly, that’s what the French Quarter smelled like to me and that odor my biggest association with New Orleans. Well, that and the stifling heat, but we have that in Texas, too.
I wouldn’t think that an oriental gourmand would really be the thing for New Orleans though – too hot for most of the year.
You know, I’d buy a really excellent beignet & coffee perfume. Really.
Try Bond’s New Haarlem – it is a sweet coffee fougere by Maurice Roucel. It is very breakfasty and my son’s first reaction was “pancakes!” And like most Bond fragrances, it lasts forever.
I like the sound of Saks New Orleans. I guess it only comes in the crystal bottle? Any word on if proceeds go to rebuilding projects or anything? I’m generally against using charity as a selling point, but it seems sort of appropriate here. I wonder if my Saks lady will have samples…. I have two favourite SAs at Saks and I think they get excited when they see a ponytail and an orange bag. They are very generous with the samples, too.
Too much patch for me…but it’s a nice fragrance.
I forgot that you don’t like patchouli so much. I think I must be a little anosmic to it, because I can’t pick it out in a perfume until said perfume smells like a head shop.
I would too. Isn’t New Haarlem a coffee-inspired scent?
There’s nothing like the smell of powdered sugar with fried dough with that chickory coffee, is there?
And how ’bout dem SAINTS?!
Lol. That reminds me of that cooking show I used to watch with that Cajun chef Justin something. “Oh yeah-don’t forget the unyawn!”
Cassis always gets my nose interested. Sounds lovely.
Hope it is!
Want to try that one, and love that bottle!
I don’t know why, but it is not calling up NO for me? But it’s pretty.
Me neither. Maybe it’s trying to ride the wave of Saints fever?
Looks like it’s the symbol on the city flag as well. And I guess since it’s only being marketed locally, that works.
The fleur-de-lis is the symbol of NO, I think. Something about the colours just made me think “Drew Brees Mania”…
A colorful Mardi Gras mask would have looked good! I’ve not had much success with this line yet, but this one sounds nice on “paper”.
Yes!
Hmm… those notes do not sound very NOLA to me. (I know someone already said this, but seriously–a praline note at least? And then take out the violet leaf, tuberose and lily of the valley.)
And thank you, football, for ruining the Fleur de Lis for me. (And I’m sure I’m misspelled that. Don’t crucify me for it.) It should be pretty, but now that bottle just screams “sporty!” at me.
I’m crabby today.
No crabby Kitty! ;(
We are a big football family, but the Fleur de Lys (I don’t know if I’m spelling it right either) screams ” shiny flocked wallpaper” to me. Traumatic childhood decorating theme from the ’70s.
Now flocked wallpaper I like!
I think your spelling was the correct one. At least the “lys” part.
Eek! :-O
I remember being somewhere as a kid that had red flocked wallpaper and red glass lamps, and telling my dad that when I grew up that was how I wanted to decorate my house. He said, “So you want to live in a whorehouse?”
Yeah, I’ve got classy taste. What can I say.
Sorry you’re crabby!
Yeah, not my usual charming self. 😉
Maybe a little catnip would cheer you up!
Is that a euphemism? 😉
LOVE the bottle!!! It sounds interesting to me, but I’ve never been to New Orleans..so what do I know.
Well, I think all of the Bond 9 scents have to be taken with a grain of salt. This is not to say that there aren’t parts of big cities that smell amazing, but I had to sum up my olfactory memory of New York, I can promise you that the tops notes would involve urine.
So, artistic license, I guess, is the name of the game.
I’ve been twice, but it doesn’t say anything to me either. That’s ok though!
For some reason, I don’t love that bottle. There’s something vaguely Playboy-bunny about it, perhaps. Sadly, ‘New Orleans’ makes me think of floods and tragedy, so I’m not sure what I’d expect of the scent. An ‘indelible aroma’ of raw sewage?
Oh, that is sad! That isn’t my image of NO at all…but haven’t been back since Katrina either.
I have…three times. It’s great and you’re definitely overdue for a trip! I visited the Saks once which seemed a little out of place but, hey. Reminds me, I need a beignet fix…
I am overdue for a trip! Jessica went recently & I was quite jealous.
I haven’t been to Saks in eons.
Sorry, Robin! I know I can’t stop talking about it. I really, really enjoyed the city’s “personality” – its architecture, its history, its energy, its people. And, yes, its food. Hah. I’m going to write reports on shopping at Hove’ and Bourbon French one of these days…
New Orleans definitely has the renewal vibe going. I really sensed among many of the younger people. Also many more companies are filming in N.O. now.
It seems like magnolia should be in there somewhere, and chicory. But it sounds nice. If it is only in NO it is kind of a moot point, though. I am still searching for THE Bond – Chinatown and Silver Factory are close, but I feel like I need to smell them ALL – lol.
IMHO, those are the 2 best.
I totally agree with the Magnolia. That’s something Magazine ST by SIP got right for sure. How can you have a southern perfume without magnolia?
This one sounds NIIIIIICCCCCCEEEEEE! I’m lovin’ that bottle! I just can’t keep up with Bond!
It’s hard to keep up…they are prolific.
Maybe it’s me but all of the notes for Bonds sound the same. Black current, Lilies, Bergamot, Violet Leaf, Patchouli….
I’ve got heaps of family in New Orleans and I love it there. I might have to try this anyway.
Yeah. When it comes to that, the notes for most everything sound the same.
They left out the indelible aroma of three-day-old shrimp shells fuming in an overflowing trash can in the middle of City Park. And stale beer.
🙂
Ha! Ha!
LOVE the bottle! I’m a sucker for packaging.
There’s a new one coming for Saks in Boca Raton (the 2nd) that is the same black w/ crystals, but a different design.
They forgot the magnolia, azalea, mold, stagnant swamp water, and that unique industrial/organic reek that issues forth from the Mississippi River. (Sorry for the snark… but those notes sound NOTHING like the Nawlins I visited frequently with my parents in the 80s [I grew up in Baton Rouge]!)
NP
I couldn’t agree more! I love NO, but haven’t been back since Katrina either. I usually have a mixture of images when I think of NO, of good food, wonderful music, mystical architecture, floods, rotten politics, buganvilleas, magnolias and yes the river. The Bond perfume just doesn’t seem complex and strong enough to capture NO for me and at $325 per 100 ml, I don’t think I’ll come close to it.
I agree that the bottle is reminescent of a football helmet (well, a football helmet without crystals), but the fleur de lys has long been associated with French royalty. Also, dating from about the 14th century, the three petals fleur de lys often represented the Trinity, and lilies have oftten be depicted in Christian religious art (Easter lilies, e.g.). Now, having said that, I hope the frag is scrumptious at that price!
Thanks!
I was in NOLA a year and a half ago, and did a tiny bit of service work and certainly saw some of the areas that remain devastated. It really strikes me as inappropriate and distasteful to profit off the city’s name by selling $325 luxury items to tourists. Is Bond planning on making any donations to, say, nonprofits working on rebuilding this city, which our national government damaged (via the Army Corps of Engineers) and then abandoned in its time of need? Yes, I suppose the stores selling the perfume in New Orleans will pay some income taxes to the city, but what about all the other bottles that will get out in the market?
They make these for Saks, who presumably do very well by them (and it will only be sold in NO). So I guess you could argue that anything that brings tourists into the city to shop is a good thing? But beyond that, I don’t think you can go looking for that kind of moral stance in the perfume industry, you just aren’t going to find it.
All i am going to say…Gorgeous and to Die for………bottle and juice 🙂
Glad to hear it smells nice!