New fall 2015 fragrances inspire wanderlust
A single whiff of scent has the power to launch the imagination, evoking idyllic memories, legends and fantasy lands. New fragrances out this fall are no exception.
Krigler’s Sierra Vista 2142 takes us on a trip to the Huachuca mountains in Arizona, Roads infuses its latest quartet of fragrances with elements that evoke the soul of Africa, and we travel East with Van Cleef & Arpels Ambre Impérial on what the company touts as an “imaginary amber road.”
Nostalgia in a bottle, Diptyque’s limited-edition Essences Insensées captures a recollection of the perfumer’s apron-clad grandmother picking jasmine flowers in a pastoral field in France, while fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa’s first fragrance encapsulates a childhood impression of his grandmother splashing buckets of cold water against chalky, sunbaked walls in Tunisia. New company Vilhelm Parfumerie’s Smoke Show conjures up the ambience of a jazz club, a favored destination for that fragrance-maker’s dapper grandfather.
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The ultimate seduction just might be By Kilian’s Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Moi (translation: “Would you like to sleep with me?”), packaged in a snake-bedecked lacquer clutch bag.
Bésame Cosmetics Decades of Fragrance 1930, a seductive oriental scent inspired by Marlene Dietrich, blends zesty mandarin and cinnamon with heliotrope, lavender, tobacco and musky cedar, $89 for 50-milliliter atomizer bottle at besamecosmetics.com in October
Norell New York, a re-creation of the 1968 fragrance by legendary American fashion designer Norman Norell, centers on a jasmine, orchid, peony and gardenia bouquet with splashes of citrus and woody undertones, from $150 for 3.4 ounces at neimanmarcus.com
Krigler’s Sierra Vista 2142 eau de parfum, inspired by the Huachuca mountains in Arizona with top notes of lavender and bergamot blended with jasmine, rose, sandalwood and cedar, from $230 for 1.7 ounces at krigler.com
Byredo’s Rose of No Man’s Land eau de parfum, a tribute to World War I nurses, is an intriguing mix of Turkish rose and raspberry blossom with pink pepper, papyrus wood and white amber, from $145 for 50 milliliters at byredo.com
By Kilian’s Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Moi fragrance alluringly combines ylang-ylang, tuberose and Bulgarian rose with vanilla and cedar, $285 with snake-embellished lacquer clutch bag at Saks Fifth Avenue and bykillian.com on Oct. 15
Van Cleef & Arpels Collection Extraordinaire in Ambre Impérial is a spicy oriental scent focused on amber with other Eastern elements: hints of bergamot, pink pepper, warm vanilla and woods, $185 for 2.5 ounces at Neiman Marcus
The House of Creed’s Royal Mayfair fragrance, originally commissioned by the Duke of Windsor in 1936, is a cocktail of British gin, Jamaican lime, roses and orange with hints of pine, cedar and eucalyptus, from $240 for 1 ounce at creedboutique.com
Vilhelm Parfumerie’s Smoke Show, inspired by a jazz club, resonates with pink pepper and saffron accompanied by a heart of rose oil and leather, with woody base notes, $245 at barneys.com
Diptyque’s limited-edition Essences Insensées eau de parfum is dominated by jasmine flowers harvested in Grasse France, with accents of fresh basil and orange blossom flowers, $175 for 2.5-ounce atomizer bottle at Diptyque stores, diptyqueparis.com
Roads Fragrances collection of parfums inspired by Africa (Past Presence, Big Sky, Afropolis and I Am Dance) use many native ingredients such as ebony woods, amber and citrus fruits, $155 each for 50 milliliters at barneys.com in October
Alaïa Paris eau de parfum is fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa’s first fragrance, a fresh play of lush peony and freesia with pink pepper, grounded in musk, from $115 for 1.6-ounce spray at Saks Fifth Avenue, saks.com
Mondo Mondo’s Hysteria fragrance, handmade in Los Angeles, contains a captivating mix of tuberose, jasmine, coconut, sunscreen and musk, $78 for 34 milliliters at LACAUSA in Silver Lake and mondo-mondo.com
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