The needles of the pine punctured her behind on the floor of the forest. The girl makes ready for revenge! Into the fire of the mountain, she sends the lances that offended her rosy cheeks; their resinous aroma rises to skies overhead. To celebrate her victory victorious, the girl burns frankincense to the goddesses of the woods and prepares a fortifying compote of fruits and spices and strong wine; the orange coals glow intensely by her determination and by the fists of roots, completely dried, she adds, bunch by bunch. At last, satisfied, on pillows of grass, one for her head, one for her ass, the girl reclines and dreams of submissive needles of the pines: “Leaves of hell! Smoke of the sky! Perfume of I!”
No, I’m not celebrating Christmas with a fistful of Oxycodone and a bottle of Champagne…I’m simply having some fun — in the style of Serge Lutens advertising copy. Take no offense, Serge fans; if you fume and fulminate against my frivolous attitude towards le maître, you’ll spoil the happy mood of the season and appear overly serious! I, too, am a Lutens fan, but it’s been a looooong time since a new Lutens perfume has thrilled me. (The last two Lutens’ fragrances I bought the moment they were released were 2003′s Fumerie Turque and 2005′s Miel de Bois.) I had high hopes for Fille en Aiguilles, because I love pine and incense notes in fragrance…
Scents of Time has launched Night Star, a new fragrance inspired by Antoine De Saint Exupéry’s The Little Prince. While the prior fragrances in the collection were linked to ancient sources, Night Star is subtitled “fragrance of the future”…
Féminité du Bois, developed by perfumers Pierre Bourdon and Christopher Sheldrake under the direction of Serge Lutens and originally released under the Shiseido brand name in 1992, has joined the Serge Lutens export line.
Serge Lutens Féminité du Bois is available in 75 50 ml Eau de Parfum. It can be found now at Senteurs d'Ailleurs in Brussels, where it is €80, or at The Perfume Shoppe in Canada, where it is CAD $79. Update: my mistake (and I managed two in this one article); The Perfume Shoppe appears to be selling the original Shiseido Féminité du Bois.
Two quick and somewhat contradictory thoughts sprung to mind when I first smelled El Attarine, the latest fragrance from the Serge Lutens exclusive* line. The first was to ponder how much longer Serge Lutens could possibly go on releasing three new fragrances a year based on this same rather narrow thematic palette. To my nose, many of the newer releases smell like riffs on older scents in the range — interesting riffs, to be sure, but how many riffs do most consumers, even rabid Serge Lutens fans and collectors, want or need? My second thought was simply to wonder how long it would be before El Attarine was selected as the limited edition export of the year so that I could buy a bottle.
The Serge Lutens ad copy, as always somewhat less than helpful, describes El Attarine as “gold, sun-drenched topaz, everlasting flowers and saps”. El Attarine's opening is strong, dense citrus; it very quickly devolves into that blend of stewed dried fruits and curry spices that Serge Lutens fans know so well…
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Féminité du Bois, developed by perfumers 
Two quick and somewhat contradictory thoughts sprung to mind when I first smelled El Attarine, the latest fragrance from the 
