This invigorating and spicy fragrance traces its roots back to the medieval tradition of clove-studded pomanders. A purifying scent that reveals the full extent of its powers in an intense emerald composition.

“I use the word...

Renowned for its many medicinal properties, mugwort, together with its medieval imagination, takes us deep into the heart of its powerful, aromatic scent.

"How could I have known when I distractedly picked a leaf from a bush and...

Spotless and beyond reproach, this peppery crystalline scent reveals its infinite delicateness over a mellow woody base.

"Spotless and beyond reproach. A peppery crystalline scent that can stand up for itself. It's not easily forgotten."Serge Lutens

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Lighter than air, their fragrance magically blossoms and unfolds  in a breeze of fresh notes and musk undertones.

"Just as the day brings them alive, the evening sets them ablaze. Of all the citrus family —...

Like a grey pollen gently warmed by the sun’s rays, the dried lavender embers of this perfume delight our senses.

This is pollen wafting over an abandoned city. Grey like ash floating on the breeze, dust shot through...

A foray into a field of wheat where the heat and crisp straw wisps battle for the attentions of a gentle late-summer sun.

“I remember the stalks tangled in his hair, but I remember the colour as well:...

At the heart of this Eau is the potent power of Somali incense. It comes from trees on the edge of the Sabia desert, which bleed their crystal-clear resin into the air to protect themselves from the extreme heat.

Deep within Aztec Mexico, Serge Lutens leads us in the footsteps of the conquistador Hernán Cortés and his discovery of the most heavenly nectar, vanilla. A delicious, wood-scented journey to the heart of a forgotten civilisation.

"To paraphrase...

Sandalwood with a capital S. When Lutens was young, he always marked the importance of particular things, periods and places which fascinated him by writing them with a capital letter. From this childhood obsession is born an enlightened Middle...

The spirit of Parisian haute couture, its ethereal and dreamlike world, is incarnated in this glimpse through a translucent cellophane veil, in a night suffused with the cooling fragrance of mandarin and osmanthus.

"When, beneath its cellophane, Haute...

The mystique of frankincense; in L’orpheline, the many shades of grey symbolise his break with the past and the stripping away of the layers of the fine dust which veil his memories.

"Fragile but whole. Its name hints...

Serge Lutens presents us with an image of the mystical iron maiden and invites us to dig deep into our inner soul to find the lily hidden behind the thorns.

"The religion of iron needed a Virgin, and...