La Fille De Berlin Serge Lutens For Women And Men

In time for Valentine’s Day, Serge Lutens is releasing the first of two new fragrances for 2013. It is La Fille de Berlin (“The Girl from Berlin”), a unisex rose perfume that tries khổng lồ pay homage lớn a woman’s strength, resilience and beauty in the face of destruction.

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Lutens is a very intellectual perfumer who seeks khổng lồ render concrete the most abstract of theories & images. That is never more evident than in his press materials for La Fille de Berlin — such as his explanatory đoạn phim which you can watch below & which has been translated in full on YouTube.

A shorter, barely less oblique explanation of the scent is available in the press release posted on Fragrantica where Mr. Lutens describes the perfume as follows:

A flower grown under our ruins, cut off from the world, appears before your eyes to all of us to mở cửa our eyes. I took courage in both hands in her flowing Rheingold hair. On the lips, I tasted blood. My girl from Berlin showed combative, more beautiful than ever–and so I broke my contempt and yet my shame, hiding under the guise of my pride. Through the nguồn of criticism, of love & hate, God & the devil, death và life, I drew a furrow in which she disappeared. & while the maelstrom together beats on me, I pay homage to lớn her beauty enraged.


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There are no perfume notes for La Fille de Berlin. Lutens is a perfume house which often omits a large part of the ingredients in its perfume description but, here, it does so completely. The rumour mill says that La Fille is a rose & pepper scent, while Luckyscent feels some of the notes are “Rose, violet, pink & black pepper, musk” — but Lutens himself has stayed silent. On his website, the fragrance is only described with still further (and, by now, rather exasperating) lyricism:

She’s a rose with thorns, don’t mess with her. She’s a girl who goes to extremes.When she can, she soothes; and when she wants … !Her fragrance lifts you higher, she rocks và shocks. 

That’s all well and good, but I’m afraid I find nothing shocking or extreme about La Fille de Berlin. It’s a lovely rose scent which starts with peony-like roses before taking a fruity (and almost fruity-patchouli) turn, then becoming rather austere and, by the end, quite nondescript. I found it pretty average as a whole, và far preferred LutensSa Majesté La Rose for a rose scent — and any number of other Lutens fragrances in general. If truth be told, La Fille de Berlin was actually a bit of a disappointment. I’m not alone in feeling that way. One of the handful of reviews already out is from Cosmetopica (who also couldn’t make head nor tails out of Lutens’ lyricism). She, too, found the perfume far less distinctive and exciting than many of Lutens’ other creations.


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There is also an unexpectedly woody element, like that of a rose’s own stem, và elements of rich, wet soil. It’s an odd mix — greenness with earthy, loamy soil và the faintly woody aspect of a rose stem — và it makes me wonder if Christopher Sheldrake sought to lớn disassemble every part of a rose before putting them back together again. He’s done that deconstruction trick for Lutens before; it was handled brilliantly with the tuberose flower in Tubereuse Criminelle.

Ten minutes in, La Fille de Berlin begins to take on a fruity aspect. At first, it’s the unexpected scent of cherries. Then, it’s just a general fruity smell under the veneer of sweetness & it strongly resembles some purple patchouli fragrances I smelled last year. Specifically, it calls lớn mind Marc JacobsLola and, khổng lồ a much lesser extent, Chanel‘s Coco Noir. Both are scents with rose, a fruity patchouli element, notes of pear, pink peppercorn, & geranium, over a base of musk. As the Fragrantica notes demonstrate, Lola, in particular, is a primarily rose & peppercorn perfume with fruity-patchouli overtones. I own Lola and Coco Noir, so I sprayed on a little bit of each on my legs lớn see if I was just imagining things.


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Purple rose at Warwick Castle, England. Photo provided with permission by CC from “Slightly Out of Sync” blog.

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I was not imagining things. Though Lola opens with heavy fruit notes, it soon develops into something extremely similar lớn the jammy, peppercorn rose in La Fille de Berlin. Coco Noir is completely different in its opening, but it too has that jammy, purple, fruity patchouli element in its middle stages. (I reviewed it here, if you’re interested.) It should be noted that Christopher Sheldrake (who undoubtedly created La Fille de Berlin) was also responsible for Coco Noir, along with Chanel’s in-house perfumer, Jacques Polge. But it is really to Lola that La Fille de Berlin seems most similar at the start. The main differences is that the latter is slightly less fruity, much more subtle and fresh, và of infinitely better quality. There is nary a screeching synthetic in sight — which is much more than I can say for Mr. Jacobs’ creation.

Two hours in, La Fille de Berlin changes. The sillage drops even further, and the perfume takes on a cold, austere, almost metallic bent. It loses what warmth it had & becomes a linear progression that is predominantly rose with trắng musk and light sandalwood. It is far from exciting. Victoria from Bois de Jasmin had a far sexier time with the scent, experiencing amber, musk & faintly “naughty” bits:

A couple of hours later, my skin smells of amber và musk. La Fille de Berlin has an intriguing animalic cảnh báo that would be untoward và raunchy if the rest of the composition were not so refined and polished. The reference here seems to lớn be Serge Lutens’s own Muscs Koublaï Khan <…> a rose wrapped into so much musk & civet that it becomes something else altogether. La Fille de Berlin, on the other hand, is much less musk & more rose, và it’s well-behaved enough to be worn lớn the office without raising anyone’s alarm. But when you press your wrist to lớn your nose, you notice the naughty and smoldering bits. The impressive tenacity will ensure that you will be aware of La Fille de Berlin for the entire day.

I only wish I had her experience; it sounds infinitely more interesting! Having just tested extreme animalic musk và naughtiness in Parfum d’Empire’s Musc Tonkin, I’d be quite alert to lớn the presence of any skanky notes or civet in La Fille de Berlin, no matter how minute và refined. But, alas, I simply don’t smell it here. No amber, either. There is some earthiness which was there from the start, though faint, but I attribute it lớn the undertones of what seemed more like patchouli than animalic elements. And, even so, on a scale of 1 lớn 10 (with 10 being extreme earthiness), I’d place the chú ý at a 3.5 at the start & at a mere 1 towards the end. Instead, something else is much more evident. I swear, even in the dry-down, there is a fruity note! It is much, much more subtle than it was at the start, but it is still there. I find it excessively sweet, & I blame it on the pepper which has to lớn be closer lớn the fruitier type of pink peppercorn berries than to anything black và biting.

As a whole, my experience with the final hours was much closer, again, to lớn that of Cosmetopica. She owns và loves Muscs Koublai Khan, so she would have noticed any animalic similarities had she encountered them. Instead, she detected milky sandalwood in the dry-down. I agree; I found a definite creamy, soft, milky aspect to things, though to lớn my nose it didn’t smell like strong or, even, genuine sandalwood. More like an ersatz cousin, if you will. For the most part, it was mild and quite overwhelmed by the trắng musk và by that endless fruity element.

La Fille de Berlin had average sillage và very good longevity. The perfume projected for the first twenty minutes before settling in khổng lồ become much more discreet. It became close to the skin about three hours in, though it was still strongly noticeable if you brought your wrist lớn your nose. The overall duration of the scent was a little under nine hours on me. On Cosmetopica, it was eight; on Victoria from Bois de Jasmin, “the whole day.”

All in all, La Fille de Berlin is well-behaved, refined, unisex perfume that is perfectly pleasant — with all the implications that accompany that last adjective. As Cosmetopica’s reviews noted, one buys niche perfumes with their higher price tag for something that is slightly more distinctive and interesting. Serge Lutens has perfumes that run the gamut from being intellectually brilliant masterpieces that are not versatile scents for everyday use, lớn things that are simply lovely & constantly wearable, lớn scents that are occasionally just perfectly “nice.”

This is the latter. Though the bright pink colour of the liquid is absolutely gorgeous và though I wanted to love it, at the kết thúc of the day, I found La Fille de Berlin to lớn be quite boring. And, for reasons I can’t quite pinpoint, it wasn’t a particularly happy scent in my mind either, unlike Sa Majesté La Rose. (That conclusion doesn’t even consider Mr. Lutens’ incredibly dark & depressing backstory for the perfume which, ideally, I shall forget about as soon as possible.) However, as with every review, perfume is a wholly subjective thing — so what may not be my cup of tea may be a ravishingly sophisticated, discreet rose scent for others. As always, it’s best khổng lồ try it & see for yourself.

DETAILS:Cost và Availability: La Fille de Berlin eau de parfum is available right now on the Serge Lutens trang web where it costs $120 for a 50 ml/1.7 oz bottle. In other currency units, I’ve read that it will cost €78. There does not seem to be a bell-jar for the scent on the website. It is also available right now for $120 on Luckyscent — which ships internationally. Luckyscent is not showing any samples for sale at this time. I will update this post when the perfume becomes available at other retailers, such as Barney’s or Harrods — both of which traditionally carry a handful of Lutens perfumes. La Fille de Berlin has just debuted, but is supposed lớn be fully launched in March 2013, so I suspect it may be a few weeks before it is available outside of the company’s trang web or in its Palais Royal headquarters in Paris. The perfume is part of Lutens’ “export” line of fragrances, so it definitely will be offered at other selected retail outlets. For other countries, once mid-March comes around, I suggest using the Lutens Store Indicator guide on its website to lớn help you find a location that sells Fille de Berlin near you. Samples should also be available soon on decant sites, and I will update this post once I see them listed on places lượt thích Surrender lớn Chance.

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