French niche house Serge Lutens will launch Royaume des Lumières, a new collection with five fragrances. Two are new (Bois Roi D'Agalloche and Zurafà) and three are reissues (Cracheuse de Flammes, Sidi Bel-Abbès and Tarab).
When a fragrance reaches the pinnacle of beauty and preciousness, it is admitted to a resplendent kingdom: the Royaume des lumières.
Bois Roi D'Agalloche ~ "While the young King Louis XIV used oud to scent his linen, this hallowed essence stems from the Orient. The king of woods and the wood of kings, today it is worth more than gold. It is the embodiment of the most luxurious elixir, of the most mystical energy that radiates between the earthly realm and heaven."
Cracheuse de Flammes ~ originally released in 2015. "A smouldering ode to the personality of a woman who dares to do anything. Wherever there is trouble, she is always the one holding the match. Like the rose in this fragrance, she is cut from a cloth of petals intertwined with the sharpest thorns. Fiery, uncompromising, unforgettable."
Sidi Bel-Abbès ~ originally released in 2015. "The legend of Sidi Bel-Abbès – for a long time a garrison town and headquarters of the Foreign Legion – still runs through the veins of Serge Lutens. This is his way of keeping its memory alive: blazing sun, white sand, hot tobacco and the stirrings of a romance over before it began."
Tarab ~ originally released in 2020. "To resurrect the transcendence and sacredness of ecstasy, Serge Lutens leads the senses in a mesmerizing dance of opulent Turkish rose blended with precious oud, embellished with cedarwood and candied fruit. Teeming with splendour, Serge Lutens chose to name this creation “Tarab” in yet another homage to the perfumes of Arabia."
Zurafà ~ "In the most advanced medieval Arab-Muslim civilisations lived the “Ẓurafā”: a group that represented the height of sophistication. Brilliant both in their humanist thinking and in the sumptuous fabrics they wore, they left behind them the nostalgia of a perfume as fine as leather and as cosy as down. The pinnacle of refinement!"
I will update with sizes and prices when I can; they are reportedly €380 each for 100 ml.
(via sergelutens.co.uk, additional information via madame.lefigaro.fr)
Those bottles are gorgeous and it sounds like old school Uncle Serge with a few that sound lovely, but no way on the prices!
I saw one of the bottles featured in a Facebook ad yesterday and was drooling over it. Truly spectacular bottle design!
If they’d included Attarine in that bottle I’d have a hard time resisting, but I’d still probably manage it.
Still, I need to verify that the price is correct. Pretty sure these are for sale already but they are not for sale online.
With descriptions like these I’d have thought it’s another Middle East limited release. Soooo glad it’s not because they sound real good, especially Bois Roi D’Agalloche. Loking forward to smelling them!
Hope it will live up to the description!
As soon as I saw those bottles I was sure this would be a partial relaunch of the Section d’Or fragrances, and so it is. I tried a few of them on and had a decant of Cracheuse de Flammes, which I thought was a nice-enough rose but absolutely not worth what they were charging (in the vicinity of $800 CAD at the time, I believe), especially considering Lutens already has some top-drawer rose soliflores in his collection.