Well I guess I will keep the Serge thing going here since one of my Surrender to Chance hauls contained a sample of this 2011 release. I wrote at the time that it gave me the same feeling as Serge Noire. It’s a contemplative, meditative scent after you’ve gotten over the hit-with-a-flower-shop opening.
Looking back on that review brings home a fact of time passing. I wrote it in 2012 and the actual sample was sent to me by my Scent Twin, the late (and dearly missed) Gaia.
Notes from the surrender to chance, from where you can buy samples: chrysanthemum, with additional notes of gladiolus, dahlia, chamomile, peony, woods, hay, violets, incense and candied fruit.
Unfortunately I don’t see it on the Lutens Website but I do see some crazy prices on eBay. Let’s hope that (like Miel de Bois and others) that they are just behind held in the vaults waiting for another turn in the spotlight.
Did you ever try this one? Have a favorite that has just disappeared? Let’s discuss in the comments.
Images: My iPhone, Pexels
Aww man! Another good one that I somehow missed out on! Rats! I love a melancholy, introverted scent especially for a rainy bad weather day when I’m indoors reading a good mystery and drinking my hot tea. I heard that Disney corporation, back in the old days before cable TV and streaming, had a strategy of rereleasing its famous animated movies every 7 years. (So the next batch of little kids could see them.) And then they’d go back “in the vault.” Wouldn’t it be great if Serge Lutens did that with old discontinued scents?
I would love that..
Beautiful review, Tom. I wonder if the website is being changed-I looked at it and it shows no fragrances at all, and there is a headline that says they’re no longer shipping to the US. I’m in Canada, and cannot see any fragrances. I miss The Non Blonde, too. I thought life would get better for all of us after the pandemic-doesn’t really feel that way right now. Cheers to brighter days. Thank you for the beautiful post.
I wonder if that’s a tariff thing? I did look and they will not ship fragrances to the US. Bummer.