What If Lavender Is More Than Clean Sheets and Calm Nights?
Lavender is one of the perfume world's most misunderstood ingredients. To some it smells clean and freshly washed, to others aromatic, herbal or almost smoky. It can feel soothing and soft, but also sharp, dry and unexpectedly modern. That's precisely why it keeps coming back, generation after generation.
In this selection, lavender meets other materials, textures and temperaments. It becomes purer in some compositions, darker in others. Sometimes almost invisible, sometimes the first to emerge. What they all have in common is that they show how versatile the ingredient really is. Lavender is not just a scent of Provence or a linen closet, but one of the most malleable building blocks of perfume.
1. Metal lavender
Material Premiere
A LAVENDER WITH TWO SIDES
Metal Lavender is based on two expressions of lavender: a lavandin oil with vibrant, almost metallic facets and a softer, more floral lavender absolute from Maillette plantations in the valley between the Durance and the Rhône.Together, they create something bigger than its raw material, a lavender that feels as urban as it does natural.The cashmeres and musk add a soft, woody depth to the whole, enhancing the almost concrete, modern sharpness that gives the fragrance its name.
A lavender without borders, from field to concrete.
2. Le Passant
Ormaie Paris
THE PASSING MAN
He stops for a moment, then continues walking. His perfume lingers in the air. Lavender. Ambrette.
This is the scent ORMAIE's founder remembers from his father - a charismatic lavender scent and the incense Armenian Paper.
Le Passant is an homage to classic men's perfumery, a tender masculinity. The bottle's cork bears a masculine square shape in the same green color as the perfume.
A color that arises naturally from the chlorophyll in the lavender stems.
3. Music for a while
Frédèric Malle
OPPOSITES IN MOTION
A sensual heart of lavender is warmed by patchouli, amber and vanilla, then transformed again by notes of pineapple and mandarin.
Music for a While is a story of seduction: a series of strong impulses and permissive moments when life is truly lived - for a while, perhaps, like music.
4. Burning Barbershop
DS & Durga
CHARISMATIC & SMOKY LAVENDER
In 1891, a fire broke out in the Curling Bros. barbershop in Westlake, N.Y.
All the cologne oils with their scents of spearmint, lime, vanilla and lavender were burned.
Only a half-full bottle was recovered, sooty and burnt. It smelled like this.
5. Ennui Noir
Unum
DEEP, HYPNOTIC CALM
An invitation into ourselves, to the place where all is still.
At the edge of a field of rolling lavender, the delicate flower of heliotrope lends its soft marzipan tone.
The crisp green of myrtle and the soft smokiness of cedar and vetiver are like electricity in the air before a thunderstorm, but are calmed down to a quiet hum by a cloud of patchouli and vanilla.
6. Bleu Extrait de Parfum
La Bouche Rouge
A WAVE OF FRESHNESS UNDER THE WARM SUN
The mystery of the horizon, once you see it, it stays with you. When I think of this perfume, I think of endless horizons, the freshness reflected in Hokusai's wave. Revolution is about questioning, finding a new approach. Perfumer Alexis Grugeon has found a way to break free from conventional stocking stuffers by recycling raw materials, and so Bleu was born.
On the brink between the sea and the sky, Bleu combines fresh aromatic notes with salty sea air. Bleu carries a sun-warmed explosion of rose blended with woody iodine to depict the sensual scent of salty skin.
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