Five Scents for Five Moods: The Latest From Louis Vuitton
| 05/31/18
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With a spare, elegant bottle designed by Marc Newsom, these new Louis Vuitton fragrances (out today in select stores) look as good as they smell.
For more on the making of these gorgeous fragrances, click here--and keep scrolling to learn more.
The collection is available in select Louis Vuitton stores starting today--and retail for $240 for 100ml and $350 for 200ml.
In homage to Louis Vuitton's origins in travel, Cavallier Belletrud took inspiration from the exhilarating sensation of cruising at high speed -- think car windows down on a summer day -- with a stimulating blend of lemon, cedar, Peruvian balsam, bergamot, and fresh notes of cut grass.
Cavallier Belletrud made more than 300 revisions before he felt happy with this fragrance that blends sandalwood with ambrette (a flower seed that can substitute for animal musk) and cardamom. "The final result was very close to the first one," Newsom says, "but I spent three years getting there."
The sky darkens, and a sunny day turns ominous and thrilling. That's the mood Orage is intended to conjure, as its affable notes of patchouli and iris give way, over time, to smoky Javanese vetiver.
In the spirit of the 19th-century explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, who commissioned Louis Vuitton to make him a trunk that would open into a bed, Cavallier Belletrud created this leathery scent by blending cocoa with a touch of saffron and oud from a family-run farm in Bangladesh.
Hello rat race, it's the sea calling. This invigorating scent invokes the ocean with a bracing, briny top note of grapefruit that mingles with ginger and labdanum, a Mediterranean rockrose long used to treat colds and coughs (it even gets mentioned in Genesis).