Comments on: Serge Lutens L’Eau Serge Lutens ~ new fragrance

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:19:52 +0000

I hope so too.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:20:22 +0000

Absolutely…… it should be the other way around!!!! But, it is what it is i guess, and i liked it for what it was…. I really do hope this is a one-off though, Serge can’t do too much with this, it’ll end up being an expensive CLEAN line of fragrances…..

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:10:52 +0000

I think that’s just the thing…people aren’t accustomed to saying what other perfumes SL efforts smell like! But at this point, it’s hard to do clean without being derivative.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:00:15 +0000

Serge Lutens’ Chypre Rouge was my first foray into niche fragrances, so i get excited when I know that he’ll be releasing something new!!! I Smelled this at barney’s the other day… i found it to be a hybrid of Narciso Rodriguez Essence’s burst of freshness and cleanliness (before the aldehydes, a note that I usually like, come in and swift kick you) and Hermes eau de gentiane blanche , but still holding its own….. I rather liked it and maybe i’ll invest in a bottle for the summer. It’s a different direction for Serge and Sheldrake, but i think the risk just may pay off, i just hope this wont be a changing of the tides for the brand…..

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:56:32 +0000

Many thanks for the info! It does not sound like something I’ll love but looking forward to trying it.

By: schumaster

schumaster — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:10:37 +0000

I just received my sample from Palais Royal today…

it’s nothing like any other Lutens I own…..

Since I’m not so good with notes, let me just say that the closest comparison I can draw is MAC Turquatic….they smell so similar, with more complexity on Lutens’ side…

It’s sparkling clean, slightly musky with a wee bit of floral and citrus, I guess

The card that came with the sample stated that it will be available for purchase at Palais Royal on Feb 1st and on Lutens’site on Feb 15th…..price is 100 euros for 100 ml EDP

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:28:14 +0000

Trying to remember if I tried that one…will have to look at my notes. But hard to see how you can do clean in any original way. Maybe he’ll surprise me.

By: Jemimagold

Jemimagold — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:23:00 +0000

My prediction is that this is going to be a knock-off of IUNX Eau Blanche. Just a hunch – but a very strong one….

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:11:17 +0000

He does seem to be working mostly in a more pared down aesthetic the past few years. Hard to tell if that’s commercially motivated or not, although L’Eau Serge Lutens certainly looks that way.

By: Trebor

Trebor — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:31:12 +0000

Like everyone else, I am very curious about L’Eau Serge Lutens. However, based on what’s been going on with this house, especially over the last 4-5 years, I’m not getting my hopes up too high.

Most of the releases since 2005/6 have been rather disappointing and, if one is prepared to observe, catering more towards the mass market (especially in the export line). Couple this with the reformulations of a good number of his ‘classics’ (Chergui, Chene, Arabie, Ambre Sultan, Fumerie Turque, Feminite du Bois, the Bois series…) I’m even more concerned, then before, about the future of this house.

Yes, every company has bills to pay but Serge Lutens is more widely known to the perfume buying public than it was five, or even ten, years ago. Increased exposure… more public interest… increased distribution, due to increasing demand… more sales… Shiseido already has a very strong presence in the Asian perfume market, so this new direction doesn’t make any logical sense apart from what other perfume houses are currently guilty of: greed.

And to think that Serge Lutens was my favourite perfume house three years ago…