New Fragrances

Lalique Satine

03/14/13 10:18:46

By: Sandra Raičević Petrović

The inspirations for the newest Lalique women's perfume SATINE were dance, movement, grace, seduction, sensuousness, whirlwind, powdery colors, transparency, fluidity.

For this new feminine creation, Nathalie Lorson explores the extreme sensuality of a white tonka bean note. She has wrapped the voluptuous character of white flowers with delicate woods and carnal balms to arouse addiction and create an irresistible olfactive trail.

"Mes rêves, je les vis."
"Living my dreams. That is what I am about."
Satine

"Her days follow one after the other, each different from the last, driven by her passion for beauty and her thirst for discovery, which take her from the banks of the Seine to her photography studio, from the Trocadéro gardens to hip evening events. Rather than dreaming her life away, Satine prefers to live out her dreams. Naturally seductive, Satine walks the pavement and the red carpet with the same elegance. She knows how to play the seductress and transforms in the blink of an eye: the beautiful passer-by enfolds herself in a cloud of perfume and becomes the queen of hearts and the dance floor. It all begins with a shared glance. Their eyes meet; they size each other up. She holds his gaze. Charmed, he gets up and follows her. They finally meet on the dance floor. Satine’s sunray-pleated dress swirls—Satine transforms from a woman into a perfume.

Satine is an intensely modern seductive perfume, like the woman that it portrays: a blend of indulgence and addiction, it irresistibly leads those who approach it in its trail. Its woody oriental fragrance was composed by Nathalie Lorson, who has chosen to explore the smooth sensuality of white tonka bean. To depict Satine, the perfumer has created fragrant spheres that merge with each other, while the scents harmonize in an exquisite symphony. A first sphere highlights floral sensuality with a luminous bouquet of white flowers: the radiance of opulent jasmine petals, gardenia with a creamy softness, and sunny heliotrope. A second textured and balmy sphere outlines the power of enchanting gourmand notes: tonka bean and vanilla, set off with a sparkling and spicy whirl of pink pepper. Finally, a third sphere extends Satine’s smooth trail with highly contrasting woody notes: earthy vetiver and patchouli are set against creamy sandalwood."—Lalique press release

My impressions: The fragrance SATINE starts with the luminosity of light floral tonalities. The heart reveals a generous and addictive tonka bean note enriched with the gorgeous beauty of vanilla and spiced up with pink peppercorn. The dry-down note diffuses a long-lasting woody signature that adds sensuality and warmth to the fragrance.

LALIQUE SATINE

jasmine petals, gardenia, heliotrope
tonka bean, vanilla, pink pepper
sandalwood, vetiver, patchouli

Lalique has created two radiant bottles: glass for the Eau de Parfum and a crystal masterpiece for the Extrait de Parfum. The crystal bottle containing the Extrait de Parfum results from the rediscovery of a particularly complex technique, whose expertise the Lalique master glassmakers possess: pinching. This technique consists of pinching the crystal in the center of the bottle so that the Extrait de Parfum is held solely around the bottle’s circumference. Decorated with a motif of four women in long dresses, the heart of the bottle symbolises the endless circle of time and is inspired by the “Rosaces figurines” pocket watch created by René Lalique in 1905.

The iconic stopper inspired by the Langeais collection completes the adornment of Satine’s Crystal Edition, a skilful blend of history and modernity, art and craftsmanship. To create this bottle, the crystal is taken up and hot-worked with precision to create the pinched motif. Before it is introduced into the cast iron blow mold heated to 400°C, the crystal is flattened and preformed. The central decoration is pressed, while the master glassmaker very quickly blows the bottle to give it its shape. The bottle is then placed in the tunnel oven and annealed for seven hours. The handcrafted stopper is the fruit of the work of two glassmakers.

The bottle’s finishes are cold-worked: polishing, sandblasting, adjusting the stopper’s fit and grinding it in to pair each bottle with its own stopper. A pink satin ribbon, Satine’s adornment of choice, graces the neck of the bottle. Finally, there is the crucial step of selection, then numbering and the Lalique signature. This precious bottle holds the Extrait de Parfum, whose accord heightens gardenia and heliotrope’s floral sphere with black pepper. The textured sphere cloaks tonka bean in a deeply sensual ambergris note. The woody sphere, worked in an “overdose,” amplifies the composition’s gourmand trail and power. Voluptuously feminine, charming and enveloping, Satine dresses the Lalique woman in the most beautiful of fabrics.

Designed by Lalique’s Creative Studio, the Eau de Parfum bottle takes its inspiration from “La Perle Noire,” a bottle created by René Lalique in 1924 for Forvil. Rays of sun fan out from around a black pearl placed at the heart of the bottle. Satine’s bottle, evoking the swirling movement of a dancing woman’s pleated skirt, forms an asymmetrical and sunray rosette with alternating shiny and satiny rays. The luxuriously weighted silver-toned cap is decorated with the swallow logo that Lalique has chosen for its emblem. The Eau de Parfum bottle nestles in an incredibly graceful and feminine pack created by the Aesthete-Thierry de Baschmakoff agency. Matte white and shiny black enhance the pearly pink shade adopted on the ribbon effect that surrounds the Satine pack in an ultimate touch of refinement.

Perfume Satine is available in 30, 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum flacons and in a luxurious 40 ml crystal flacon as Extrait de Parfum, followed by perfumed body care products (perfumed body cream 200 ml, perfumed body lotion 150 ml, perfumed shower gel 150 ml).

Source: Lalique press release