Serge Lutens will launch Fille en Aiguilles, the latest entry in the export range, next month:
Under a sunshade, the reckless cicada begins to sing.
What a silly thing! A truly fatal hymn.
“Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick”Telling us what makes Paris tick …
According to Osmoz, Fille en Aiguilles is “…a somewhat luminous woodsy-oriental fragrance In which pine needles meld with vetiver, frankincense, fruit and spice notes”.
Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles will be available in 50 ml Eau de Parfum, 95€. (first quote via press release, second quote and additional information via osmoz)
Update: see a review of Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles.
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The ad copy is truly hilarious. SL has really outdone himself this time.
The notes are nice, too. Pine needles, frankincense and vetiver. But it sounds like something I’ll want to try in winter, not in July midsummer heat.
Agree, completely. For pine + vetiver + incense, I might get over it!
Uhhhhhhhhhm. Don’t even know what to say in response to that.
But goodness, Robin, our tireless blog mistress…you’re working awfully late tonight! At least it was to bring some comic relief.
Well, meant to post this much earlier but had a mostly lazy afternoon.
Before I saw the whole thing, I was going to say, “Two Lutens in one day?” But then I read the ad copy and realized that isn’t even the tip of the iceberg that is ridiculousness. Wow. That’s all I can say. Wow. Reminds me of something I would have written for school that had to be a certain number of words: “How am I going to write a 500-word essay? Oh, I know, I’ll write about the chirp of a cicada, and 450 of those words could be the actual chirp! I’m a genius! I’m going to start smoking this before each of my homework assignments from now on! I’m ON FIRE!”
LOL! At least it’s original…
LMAO Miss Kitty V – you’re posts always make me laugh!
Do enter the Prix Eau Faux when we finally hold it in the fall!
Thanks, all of you. When I re-read this this morning, I actually thought, Oh, dear, I probably shouldn’t be posting things when I’m this tired! Glad my weirdness is appreciated.
I was always going to try both of these, but this ad copy… ahahahahaha! Love the craziness. Does SL really write his own ad copy??
Thanks as always for the news, Robin.
Who knows? I presume so…I wouldn’t let anyone else release this sort of thing under my name, would you?
What a silly thing! I actually love this ad and I hope he does write his own copy, because he’s just gone up in my estimation.
Ok, this sounds very interesting…. I must try this when it’s available. Especially with the frank & vetiver.
It does sound quite nice!
I live in Mississippi. Do you know where have a store around here sell Serge Lutens?
Not physically, but I’d get a sample online at Posh Peasant or Perfumed Court first.
tick tick tick tick tick…
actually, I thought cicadas were more: whrrr whrrr whrrr whrrr whrr…
I’m glad you said that, suzanne. Actually, around here in the midwest, it’s the bats that go “tick, tick, tick, tick” at night – or so I’ve been told. The cicadas definitely seem to have more of a droning whine. I actually love the sound except around August when there are thousands of them droning so loudly that I can’t even think!
When I lived in Virginia we had Cicadas to drive you out of your mind….and they made a clickety-buzz sort of noise….or maybe that was the sound of my brain melting from listening to them nonstop nights and days….ad infinitum.
I love that sound. You don’t realize you miss something sometimes until you’re in a place where it doesn’t exist.
Cicadas + fireflies = summer. But not anymore.
Caresse, no, not in Mississippi. Click on the link to Serge Lutens in the article above and you’ll find a list of retailers.
I’m so loving Miss Kitty’s comment…
Again, definitely need to try any new Serge, though I wish Fourreau was the new export instead of this one — pine needles are great in something like Zagorsk, but there are often too many Christmastime room-spray associations with it. Add frankincense and, as another droll commenter said about something else, I’m liable to start looking for the star in the east. Possibly all on top of Serge’s usual wood-fruit-spice Christmas pudding and the holidays will be complete! We’ll see.
LOL, Joe! Zagorsk was the first thing that came to my mind, too. I definitely want to try it but it will be a sample purchase from TPC first. Actually, the only FB Lutens purchase I’ve ever made is Chergui.
Joe, I’m the opposite…this is the first time in ages I’m more attracted to the export one!
Looking forward to smelling this…bizarre ad copy aside.
Me too!
ok I really just loled.
It sounds ok… if the pine needles are prominent I’d like to try it.
Yep.
I’m so there with this combination. And on a good day, I would be lucky to write copy as original and satirical as SL. thank god for an artist in charge instead of a marketing exec.
I like the sound of the combo too.
Help! Am approaching a fragrance crisis! You know, the one where you find yourself in one or two fragrances and ignore all the rest, including new ones?
Or is the description of this otherwise nice-sounding fragrance that makes me cringe?
This sounds both better and worse as the shadows on a wall.
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lol !!! I was looking for the notes at the bottom of your ad copy….
Once we get to the fruit, I’m outa here. (I can’t stand his geezer-breakfast stewed-fruit compost – I mean compote – base of SL’s.)
Is that base in Serge Noire too?
k: I don’t get a hint of fruit in Serge Noire. Spice yes, but no fruit.
I get skittles in Serge Noire.
Skittles? Might need to try that one – lol
COMPOST ! ~~LOL
That’s what my kid calls it.
Luckily, I like it at least sometimes. Also seems like his fragrances are less fruity lately?
I really like it in some of the scents. Others, it’s just too much.
Sounds like it will be lovely for winter and another SL I’ll want to try. I do hope this is not a trend-setting ad copy however, because I can already imagine the onomatopoeias flooding all the upcoming ads from similar houses, and my efforts to not snort my tea as I read them. This was very haiku-like, save for the overly abundant ‘Tick’, which I think breaks the word limit.
I definitely will try this one….and perhaps this is part of their strategy but I doubt any of us will be forgetting this one tomorrow…even if we tried.
Oh Serge, you silly thing! Add me to the list that only wears pine in winter winter winter winter winter winter. lol.
Hmm, if you extend “pine” to things like fir/balsam… for me, it depends on the other notes. Maybe it’s just because I grew up across the road from a large pine forest, and used to spend my summer days playing there in the shade of the trees, the scent of pine resin and cool moss in the air. Yum. Still need to get some CBIHP Wild Hunt! ramble ramble…..
Actually, I associate the scent of Monterey pines with California summer. A nice blend of rosemary, manzanita, Monterey pine and dusty paths. . . that would evoke summer beautifully for me.
I’m a girl who grew up on the waters of Boston Harbor and the agricultural stretches of Southern California (a cross-country, cross cultural existence, if you will) so my olfactory memories of pine are limited to day trips in the Fall in pine forests.
*With the exception of secretly admiring Burberry London for Men and Porsche The Essence… shhh! 
Borsari had a lovely, very light pine that wore well in summer. Hard to find though.
Maybe it should come with an exclusive Christmas decoration to go with all this pine
HA
Excuse me, um, WTH? Is it supposed to smell like a squished cicada? The notes sound good, but . . . whatever. Beetle juice.
Don’t say that 2 more times……
Psst. I whispered it as I typed. Had to.
I was thinking it only…..so far, so good….
Ack.
Anybody here recommend ordering their Petit Livre des Parfums?
I only heard about SL recently (through this site actually!) and I’m intrigued, I really want to smell these fragrances~
Well, it’s free so it certainly can’t hurt! But I’d shell out for at least a few liquid samples as well — you get a much better idea that way.
Oho, this perfume cries Creeete! I used to have Un jardin en Mediterranee for cicada and pine invocation. Do you think this SL can beat my Hermes?
Un jardin en Mediterranee has pine needles???
I’m surprised Demeter doesn’t have a Pine Needle but they do have Cypress which they say is reminiscent of pine needles (I’ve never smelled cypress before)
Who knows — it wouldn’t be SL’s usual style if it did though!
Wait … woodsy oriental with fruit and spice notes? G’wan!! Who’d have thunk it!
I love the cicada copy, though. I was just yearning for them.
HA!
And you’ll be getting that tick, tick soon enough, right?
Not soon enough for me! I love that sound … it seems awfully late this year, maybe the cool weather?
I’ll go on the record as finding the ad copy delightfully silly, a first from the SL camp, as far as I know. It sounds like a poem, honestly. And some guy’s reading it seriously on Open Mike Night.
Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.
With heavy pauses, I would just about die laughing.
I’m really excited to smell this but fruits always worry me. Whether stewed or fresh or dried or roasted or pickled or steamed, they just don’t work on my skin. So I hope everything else is wonderfully fruit-smothering.
Can I just say that I’m ten kinds of excited this is the Export this year and not the other one. o…o;
And I got my bottle of ISM today from a very, very lovely friend who just got back from Paris. I wasn’t really prepared for how small the bottles actually are but I know it will last me a good long time. I’m so happy!
Oh, lucky you on the ISM! I’m jealous
Ok, now they are just messing with us! Oh Serge Lutens, that tease.
I’ll bet it does smell like balmy, woodland places, though. A definate “must-try” for me
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oi, misspellings in my comments abound! …
No worries about that — my fault for not finding a way to let people edit comments.
I do wonder, though, if Serge isn’t just messing with us, exactly!