The Serge Lutens Universe
Immerse yourself in the universe of an extraordinary creator: Serge Lutens.
A tailor-made perfumery!
Serge Lutens was born during the war, on March 14, 1942, in Lille , in northern France. From an early age, he was described as a dreamer with a vivid imagination and an innate instinct to find beauty, which, as a teenager, led him to work in a beauty salon in his hometown.
There she identifies the feminine parameters that she will make her own: eyes made up with eye shadow, ethereal skin and short hair, clean cut and straightened. She also asserts herself with the black color that she will never abandon.
At 18 he moved to Paris to collaborate with the most important fashion magazines: Elle, Jardin des Modes, Harper's Bazaar constantly solicited him.
In these years the recognition of his talent is evident.
In 1967, Christian Dior , who was about to launch his own make-up line , called on him. For this Maison he would create colors, style and images.
In 1980, he signed a collaboration with Shiseido that would allow this Japanese cosmetics group, until then little known on the international scene, to impose a visual identity so powerful that it would make it one of the main players on the market in the 80s and 90s.
Deeply influenced by his discovery of Morocco and especially Marrakech, Serge Lutens made this country the cradle of his perfumery. Waxes, cedar woods, orange blossoms…, Marrakech inspired his first perfumes: “Ambre sultan”, “Cuir mauresque”, “Chergui”… Having become must-haves, they write a new page in the history of essences.
In 2000, Serge Lutens created the brand , which today bears his name, and imposed a style without concessions.
the black collection
"Charm, vitality, pain, temperament, vice or defect, which facets of ourselves will we make shine?" A collection of emblematic perfumes that each represent a moment of ourselves.
Femininity of the Wood
"The fragrance expresses the masculine character of femininity and vice versa. Cedar, cedar and more cedar. 60% woods. People, amazed, called it revolutionary. The perfume took on its own identity, which for me is the most important thing."
Sultan Amber
"This fragrance is not an Oriental, but an Arab and a Lutens. So don't expect it to fit in. The starting point was a scented wax found in a souk and long forgotten in a wooden box. The amber became sultanesque only when I reinterpreted the composition: using cistus, a herb that glues your fingers like tar, and then adding a note that no one imagined at the time: vanilla."
Orange Blossoms
"It is within us. A single whiff of this fragrance, drawn from the highly fragrant flower of the bitter orange, enhanced with a hint of civet, resonates within us."
The Berlin Girl
"A city, a story, an experience… essential to describe this character of a woman dressed in petals, diabolical like her thorns. Strong-willed, explosive, one thing is certain: no one will make fun of her. "
The orpheline
"Mysticism of incense. L'orpheline has chosen to decline gray in all its shades to evoke its ancient fragilities.
Through successive layers, its thin veil of dust bears witness to its fleeting past."
The Devil's Couch
"How can one invite oneself to the coronation of Satan when one has not yet known the taste of sin? Oud and labdanum form here the layer of a first remorse as demonic as it is sumptuous."
Son of Joy
"The laughter of the disillusioned is that which bursts out for no reason in a libertine boy. As a child, in the shadows, he learned its exhilaration, its tears and its illusions. Today, he gives us back its light in a splendid fragrance with notes of nocturnal jasmine."
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