Coming in March from Bond no. 9 will be High Line, a new fragrance inspired by the New York City park of the same name that stretches along a former elevated track on Manhattan’s West Side.
Perfumer Laurent Le Guernec’s unisex marine floral green formula aims to capture “the prairie wildness of the foliage’s stark beauty” as well as the surrounding city and waterfront. The notes include bergamot, aldehydes, ozonic notes, purple love grass, rhubarb, rose, tulip, grape hyacinth, orange blossom and bur oak.
Bond no. 9 High Line will be available in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum; 4% of the proceeds will be donated to Friends of the High Line. (via wwd)
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Now *there* is a Bond bottle I could love! I’m a little hesitant about that note list, but I’ll probably give it a shot anyway.
I’m with you, Boo: LOVE the bottle, am unsure about those notes. (“Purple love grass”? Sounds unbearably hippie.) I hate ozonic far less than most people do, probably because I wasn’t wearing perfume when it was new ‘n hot – but rhubarb is iffy. And in my experience real tulips don’t have a scent… wonder what aromachemical it is that they’re calling tulip?
I’m positive that I wouldn’t want to bother smelling it before spring.
Yeah, man…purple love grass! That bottle is pretty though. My experience with Bonds has been both love and hate, so will have to sniff this one. If only just to check out the purple love grass.
There are scented tulips:
http://www.finegardening.com/plants/articles/sweetly-scented-tulips.aspx
The double-flowered ones are great to force and have the lovely spring smell indoors.
Ooooh. I’ve only ever had the outdoors ones.
So true. I am born in a country, which is known well for its tulips, and they smell wonderful.
I’m with you on that bottle (want!) but “marine” and “prairie” don’t seem to jibe in my head, or scarier still, conjure up images of marshlands and swamp.
Yes, exactly! And while I’m w/mals in not running in terror from ozonic notes (depending on how they’re handled), grape hyacinth? bur oak? I have no clue what to expect from that.
I’ve actually been looking for a perfume that smells like the ocean and dry grass, but I’m pretty sure it’s going to be one of those that I have to invent myself. When I learn how to invent perfumes, that is.
Oh, you just knew this prairie enthusiast was going to wade in on this one.
Purple Love Grass is a relatively inconspicuous but attractive species of the short-grass prairie, and its association with wild roses and bur oaks is appropriate. The rest of the notes listed are unrelated to that ecosystem or even the U.S. continent. But, hey, when did “real” have anything to do with perfumery?
According to WWD, LeGuernec found 200 species growing in the park — obviously not all “native” in the strict sense, though.
Hee-hee-hee. Found orange blossoms and bergamot oranges growing in New York, huh? Oh, hee-hee-hee.
HA…no, but he says he found the rhubarb & the prairie grass & all the rest.
Thanks for the info! I still want to know who threw “love” into the name… seems totally unlike your typical Midwesterner prairie-dwellers. (I kid.)
According to the following site, the name “lovegrass” arose in the Middle Ages (and not the Midwest), “The story goes that it was named that because of the tendency of its flower panicles to catch in ladies’ long dresses and petticoats as they walked through pastures.”
http://www.anniesannuals.com/plants/plant_display.asp?prodid=2178
Have you seen this new product: http://www.bondno9.com/shop/gifts/view/the-now-and-forever-pocket-spray. No idea how much juice it holds! Very charming though.
G-girl: had to run and look at those…7 ml…verra verra nice and would make a terrific Christmas present. hint, hint!
Yikes! $85 for 7 ml?? Sure hope they’d have refills available at a very reasonable cost, or that’s ridiculous.
Cute!
I saw these at Saks the other day. Very cute in their little leather cases. They also had gift sets with assorted scents in what looked like 10 – 15ml sprays. You can’t see the actual bottles – they look like huge samples in the cellophane candy wrap.
Ugh. Aldehydes + ozonic notes is giving me a headache in advance. I’ve had this problem with several of the Bond fragrances. I know they use different noses, but four perfumes from four different noses have had the same effect on me (and my husband). Is there some sort of common base that unifies these scents as a family like the famous Guerlinade? And I had to look that spelling up and found Luca Turin complaining about it breaking French phonological rules.
One common link is that they’re all very strong…they use a higher concentration than many other brands. I don’t think they have a common base so much as a common aesthetic — they don’t tend to go for subtlety.
True, subtelty is not their strong suit. I tried the solid perfumes but I couldn’t smell them. The Bond lady agreed and thought maybe it was because the testers had been out for a while. She opened a new one for me and neither of us got much from that one either. The candles are nice, the Chinatown votive is very pretty, but I just can’t imagine paying $85 for a candle. I can buy a Lampe Berger for that and change the oils to suit the season or my mood.
Same thing happened to me in Lush, but I’ve heard good things about their solids.
Ooh, I don’t want to dissuade anyone from trying the solids from Bond – they are adorable! They are nice and heavy and feel so substantial in the hand and come in a cute little leather case. I think my nose was probably “burned out” by the time we got to the solids, but I’ve had trouble with other solids as well. I can’t smell most of them – is it possible to be anosmic to a form of fragrance? Maybe the carrier blocks the other components? I can’t smell anything but coco butter in the LUSH fragrances, and a friend gave me three Crazy L & the Poppies frags and I can’t get anything from them either. The only one I can smell is Fracas solid parfum – which I adore.
The Fracas solid is so strong! I can smell the Crazylibellule ones, but as I said, not the Lush, although they were sitting out uncovered and maybe they lose their smell? I have no idea.
Can I just share how irked I am that I left New York? I mean, I didn’t love living there, but… damn. That’s an amazing park.
It really is! Great idea, great execution.
I think I’m over Bond No. 9 (While I’m broke, anyway). They’re wayy to expensive, and quite frankly, they just aren’t worth the price. They just don’t blow me away like they should for the prices.
It’s true, they’re not bargains.
Adorable bottle! And I’m a sucker for anything with rhubarb in it. I haven’t found a Bond #9 to love yet, but I’m willing to give one more a try.
I like rhubarb too. But w/ marine & ozone notes, doubt I’ll like this.
I like that bottle, but not a fan of marine or green, esp. since I smelled SJP Covet. Ugh!
Too bad, I loved Covet! Didn’t find it aquatic though.
Me, either, or I wouldn’t have liked it.
Spring! It’s now on my radar for the next Spring season…
Cannot wait until spring…hate cold weather.
I doubt I will love the scent, but love that bottle!
It’s a nice one.
Add me to those LOVING that bottle, and certainly curious about the scent … ozone, purple luvvvvvvvv grass and all.
I wish I could buy Brooklyn fragrance in this bottle; it might make me spring for a Bond.
I also am dying to see Highline Park, which I love the concept of, but I doubt it will be as impressive in December when I might see it as it would be in the warm months.
You’ll have to another trip in the spring!
Marine and ozonic frighten me to bits – though I’m always on the lookout for anything green/herbaly. The bottle IS a beauty, isn’t it?
@ Andrea D: it’s not completely like ocean & dry grass, but have you sniffed L’Eau de l’Artisan? It’s citrusy/lemon initially, but the drydown is a beautiful ocean/dry grass/hot sand/seaweed (in a good, very very subtle way).
Love L’Eau de L’Artisan!
This sounds kind of pretty, makes me think of Spring
Possibly one i would love to try. Bond No 9 has some very nice fragrances in their line up. I so wanted to love Chinatown as it smelled beautiful on a friend of mine. On my skin it turned kind of weird sweet sticky……scrubber 
I did fall in love with the one called Harrods for her and had to get it.. And i love their bottles.
It does look like a perfect spring bottle! Hopefully the scent will match.