French niche house Serge Lutens has launched Le Participe Passé, a new unisex woody oriental fragrance in the Collection Noire series.
"Past moments that surge into the present have many scents. I have interpreted that which most evokes the past." Serge Lutens
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The new fragrance, Le Participe Passé, is sweet, rich and sensual.
Notes reportedly include cumin, fir balsam, fruits and resins.
Serge Lutens Le Participe Passé is available in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum.
(first quote via us.sergelutens, second quote via harveynichols, additional information via resident, centmagazine.co.uk)
I adore the name!
2. Wonderful name.
Hi, Austenfan!!
Hi Solanace!
Anyone at all interested in French as a language knows how tricky the participe passé can be, for a non-native speaker.
My french teacher taught us a song to remember all the verbs. A math teacher taught the quadratic equation as a song as well, and i can still sing both….20 + years later ????
Doesnt do much for me, except a party trick.
The end of the fench song goes “the participe passe s’accord avec le subjet, ole!” (Pardon les spelling errors)
Me too.
Target market: Everyone who took French as a foreign language in high school.
Snark aside, of course I want to sniff this.
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Good to see it’s available in 50ml. Does Christopher Sheldrake still create these scents?
Everybody says so, and it’s probably true. I never see his name mentioned in “official” publications anymore though.
Interpreted the past, indeed. It’s back to the stewed fruit phase, methinks. Or perhaps they’re swapping out cedar and cinnamon for cumin and fir, and doing a third redux of FdB?
Re: third redux of FdB, good point! 🙂
I so want there to be a new stewed-fruit phase. I was a massive fan — I have fifteen of his scents! — but his work for the last five years has been so dreary and middle-of-the-road: even the wildly expensive Section D’Or scents are boring — if you sniffed them blind you couldn’t tell them from any other recent releases.
What I’m saying is that this sounds like it might be good and I’ll buy it if it is.
Sounds like a cross between Fille en Aguilles and El Attarine. I’ve long since given up hope on Lutens, but it looks like I may need to check this one out. Even the ad copy seems to be an acknowledgement that this one is a return to the early SL days, which can only be a good thing.
Also, I’m not smart, what does the name translate to?
Straight translation is past participle.