Serge Lutens wants you to turn your perfume application into a 3 part ritual. Are you game? Step 1, Confit de Parfum, shown above left. "Confit de parfum La fille de Berlin offers a sensorial gesture, heightened by the warmth of your skin. A new gesture, more sensorial, more intimate, to discover another facet of La fille de Berlin. A touch is enough for an intense fragrance." (The main ingredient is dimethicone, so this should be like a dry oil. $195 CAD for 25 ml.) Then, step 2, you spray on your regular perfume. Step 3, Toison d'or, the hair perfume, shown above right. "In movement the scent diffuses, subtly perfuming the hair with fragrance for an alluring and bewitching trail." ($110 CAD for 50 ml). Available in La Fille de Berlin, Ambre Sultan and Chergui, at Holt Renfrew in Canada.
That first pic looks more like a shower gel…they almost had me.
A 4 part ritual…
Augh. La Fille de Berlin is my favorite SL to wear. *covers eyes*
Move on, nothing to see here 😉
Thank you for the encouragement, which upholds my thought that I don’t really like “dry” oils; oil should be, well, oily and one just deals with it. Also, LFdB is just fine on its own. I just decided to take it on my vacation.
Chergui? cover my eyes, too.
Huh.
The Step 1 product immediately made me think of Chanel No 5 Elixir Sensuel, which I assure you is not a bad association at all.
No, it is not. ?
Luckily for my wallet, I already have all three scents and don’t feel any great need to add a “confit de parfum” of any of them.
I was really surprised at this tack, to be honest. Ages ago I thought that if Lutens sold his scents — or even an exclusive selection of them — as perfume, in little quarter-ounce copies of the bell jar, he would have made a *killing*. I’m sure the EDPs made him quite a lot of money, but if he had started to launch one or two of his scents every year as actual perfumes, with all the attendant foofaraw, I’m fairly sure I wouldn’t have been able to resist at least a few, and I’m quite sure that I’m not alone. There would have been unrestrained hysteria, at least in the fragrance press.