We all love perfumes… We, so called fashionistas love scents as much as we love designer clothes.We all have this fascination with glamour as an escape hatch for our own age of global anxiety. And how better to express that glamour than with fragrance? But it’s that all that it can express? Who wasn’t in love with a perfume bottle? Many of us collect them, me and my mother kept our favorites and so are most of you…Isn’t it? But some think of it as Art Works, really!
Bond No. 9 is an edgy downtown perfumer, committed to art and design (not just the art of scent-making, but the visual components, too) . I think the idea of combining Perfumery with Pop Art is extraordinary!
This morning I received two of Bond No.9 latest creations Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory (I love) & Saks Fifth Avenue. I’ve decided to follow their model and review them from two angles: the fragrance and the Pop Art bottle and package design. I consider BN9 a luxury affordable perfume brand (although an expensive line, it’s available in different sizes) , a must-have in fashionista’s wardrobe, an Art collection that promises a great value in the future. Really ladies, some are already to die for…
As most of you know Bond no 9 is the world’s first fragrance collection as a homage to the first metropolis of the twenty-first century, marking each NYC neighborhood with a scent of it’s own. Each celebrating a specific downtown, midtown, or uptown locale or a city-wide sensibility.
Arriving December 1, a new direction in the art of perfumery and perfume bottle design, Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory, marks the start of Bond No. 9’s series of Warhol collectibles.
The visuals:
With the Warhol partnership, Bond No. 9 takes it as its mission to enhance the artist’s dynamic by connecting his vision not just with a line of fragrances, but with another kind of artistry—that of the sense of smell, and to interpret for today the scents of the studios, the clubs, the streets of New York that Warhol frequented and made famous. So they decided the inspirations for their Warholian pop perfumes would be based on Andy Warhol’s favorite haunts. First among them? The Silver Factory—also known simply as the Factory.
The slender bottle, with a background of textured silver (so fashionable this season), displays a unique graphic inspired by the Campbell’s Soup Can design in bold colors as created by Warhol in a series of his colored Campbell Soup Can silkscreen paintings in 1965.
The fragrance:
This perfume is probably my new favorite. I’m saying “probably” just because I don’t have any memories related to it. I love the feeling this scent gives me…it’s special. A concentrate perfume containing all my favorite ingredients:
Elusive, metallic IRIS (my secret), smelling the way silver might smell …
Velvety-soft AMBER - a tranquilizer in fragrance form…
Cool… sensual CEDARWOOD
(some of you know about my addiction for powerful scents like l’eau d’Issey), and it lasts forever as the smell of art…
Here’s what they say about it:
Like all the scents-in-progress that we are designing for our Warhol repertory, this one is of ambiguous male-female gender. We conceived of Silver Factory as a smooth, smoky, spicy blend of interlacing incense (a key scent of the ‘60s), wood resin, and syrupy, seductive amber. But just to complicate things, we gave it a heart of jasmine, iris, and violet—a scent that Warhol was especially fond of. These slightly dissonant florals combine to evoke a metallic effect—that of warmed-up, molten silver, And then, for the merest hint of coolness, we threw in a handful of cedarwood.
What’s more, taking a cue from the Campbell’s label, which proclaims its soups as Condensed, we’ll be offering our Warhol fragrances as innovative 28 percent perfume concentrates—in between eau de parfum and perfume extract.
Suggested Retail Price: $230, for 3.4oz
Andy Warhol Silver Factory will be sold at Bond No. 9’s four New York boutiques, at Bond No9.com, at Saks Fifth Avenue nationwide and at saks.com
What’s your favorite bottle?
Happy Halloween!!!
October 31st, 2007 at 8:29 am
well I am boring because my favorite bottle is armani code
but I just looooove the smell of this one!!!
November 1st, 2007 at 5:59 pm
The bottle is beautiful.Cosmetics need to smell or work great, but they should also decorate the space around you.
November 11th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
I love the packaging on this one! Will definitely have to go out and check out the scent!
November 15th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
This is kind of random, but I also recommend Flower by Kenzo- the flower in the bottle is sooo cute!
November 29th, 2007 at 6:23 am
yes, parfume bottles today are pieces of art!
December 4th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
And what better art inspiration for a perfume bottle than the great Warhol?
December 5th, 2007 at 8:52 am
ooh that’s nice and different..but i don’t wear perfume, it makes me dizzy, but it’s nice though..
December 5th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
I can’t imagine going out w/out perfume! I wear it even to the beach. I know, that’s kind of stupid but I love to smell good.
December 5th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
I use a good shower cream that makes my skin smell nice for 2 days!
December 5th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Which cream is that? My shower cream barely lasts w/out the lotion.
December 6th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
ooh i would like to know…!!too!!
December 10th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
something from dove, I don’t know the name, but it’s one of their regular cream showers! dirty cheap, everytime I shower with it I feel like a goddess!
December 10th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
I like the moisture rich body washes from Dove. They smell very good.
December 11th, 2007 at 11:35 am
yes, they have that “clean” smell
December 11th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
My all time favorite soap scent is the white soap bar Dove makes.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
didn’t try that one yet, but I will buy it next time I am in at the drugstore!
December 12th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
I wish all perfumes came in pretty bottles like thiso one.
December 14th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
you can buy really pretty bottles and fill your fav perfume in!
December 14th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
I didn’t know you could do that. Where do they sell them?
December 15th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Are they coming out w/ more of these Warhol perfumes?
December 16th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
I hope someone gets me a cute perfume for xmas!
February 6th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
I need to have a new fresh smell.can someone buy me one?
December 31st, 2008 at 11:54 am
It smells so good. I love it.