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FLORAL scents
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SPRING
Now is the perfect time for an olfactory spring clean. It’s time to swap your winter scent for something lighter. Lalique’s Mon Premier Cristal collection could be the ideal scent for the Northern Hemisphere summer. WORDS BY HIRIYTI BAIRU
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he Mon Premier Cristal collection features three floral scents: Sensuel, Tendre and Lumiere, encased in a unique bottle featuring a contemporary design by Lalique’s creative director Marc Laminaux. A trio of feminine fragrances composed by three women perfumers, each scent expresses her own distinctive style. This year Lalique for its 130th anniversary presents Hirondelles, a limited edition of 130 numbered pieces, engraved on the base with the logo.
MON PREMIER CRISTAL SENSUEL In Sensuel, perfumer Karine Dubreuil-Sereni transforms the scent’s melting warmth into a voluptuous woody oriental. She has a love for opera and sings a full lyric soprano repertoire-, “light, transparency and legibility” in her formulas – the very qualities of crystal. In the Mon Premier Crystal Collection Karine’s composition opens with flame-coloured fruit: juicy sweet, crystal-bright mandarin and orange. The velvety softness of peach feature in opening notes of the oriental accord: the vanilla and almond accents of heliotrope. To express the glow of crystal, the composition opens with flame-coloured fruit: Juicy, sweet, crystal-bright
MON PREMIER CRISTAL TENDRE LALIQUE A signature of Lalique's refined style, satin crystal suggests the powdery softness of a petal or a woman's skin. In Tendre, perfumer Sidonie creates a delicate floral oriental. A perfumer since 2006 with the grasse-based natural materials producer
Robertet, Sidonie favours concise formulas in which each ingredient has its purpose. To transcribe the sensory appeal of satin crystal into scent, she has picked the most beautiful, quintessentially feminine flower: the rose. "And more specifically the idea of the rose petal, because of its velvety, skin-like feel" she explains. Sidonie takes the soft petals of a freshly bloomed rose. An overdose of essence of Turkish rose, the most luminous and fruity of the perfumer’s palette, is made more radiant still by playful, crystal-clear pear. Tendre leaves a delicate, satiny-soft veil of vanilla and white musk in its trail. Sidonie said: "I chose the theme of satin crystal because I love the material. It makes me want to touch it. I love that velvety feel. I wanted to draw a parallel with the velvety texture of a rose petal. To me, this fragrance is a very tender, delicate scent, like a second skin."
MON PREMIER CRISTAL LUMIERE Whether inspired by nature or more abstract, the elegrant motifs that adorn laique pieces turn crystal into a dazzling sculpture of light. In lumiere, Alexandra Monet transforms it into a strongly contrasted floral chypre. It is with tuberose, the most captivating of white flowers that she translates the fasicnating brillance of crystal into fragrance. The radiance of the regal bloom is accented by Jasmine Sambac. “A very modern note that is both green and narcotic,” Alexandra explains. Knowing that every light has its dark side, the perfumer sculpts this lush white floral heart with a nocturnal
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