La Collection Haute Parfumerie
Un Été Français
CELINE introduces UN ÉTÉ FRANÇAIS, the new opus in the Haute Parfumerie collection.
Remaining faithful to the Couturier-Parfumer tradition, this new perfume’s narrative and compositions embody a French spirit through its muses, codes and favourite haunts. It pursues the central theme of the powdery trail which signs the whole CELINE Haute Parfumerie collection.
A new creation inspired by the recollection of the « New Wave » generation, one that expressed freedom and the lightness of being, a theme so dear to the House. Memories of light-hearted holidays in the South of France, lulled by the waves and summer heat. A silky-soft and addictive fragrance, like a veil of ambered cream on golden skin.
The collection is comprised of twelve creations to date, with UN ÉTÉ FRANÇAIS finding its place as the thirteenth in the day collection:
For the day:
– PARADE
– SAINT-GERMAIN-DES-PRÉS
– COLOGNE FRANÇAISE
– DANS PARIS
– LA PEAU NUE
– ZOUZOU
– RIMBAUD
– BOIS DORMANT
– EAU DE CALIFORNIE
– UN ÉTÉ FRANÇAIS
For the night:
– REPTILE
– BLACK TIE
– NIGHTCLUBBING
Un été tropézien
Saint-Tropez, in the late afternoon.
Back from the beach and getting ready for the evening, that comforting smell of after-sun lotion settlingas a veil of cotton on salty skin.
Bursts of laughter, eye contact, the rounded curve of a shoulder captures the last rays of sunshine, while waiting for friends.
Outside, in the sweet air, strumming guitars promise an evening stretching far into the night.
The fragile grace of an adolescence spent under the sun in the Côte d’Azur, that first love…
The reminiscence of precious moments kept for yourself.
Fragrant nostalgia
Regressive like a memory that stays engraved in your mind, UN ÉTÉ FRANÇAIS resonates with the fragrance of holidays. There is a breath of sea air around the gorse’s little golden flower, radiating the delicate scent of coconut, heightened by the sparkle of neroli and the bittersweetness of petitgrain.
The freshness of waves that awakens golden skin, languishing in the sun under a pure blue sky, while powdered vanilla gently emerges to prolong in its trail the soft summery accord of gorse.
Notes
Bergamot, petit-grain, neroli, gorse and vanilla accords.
The bottle
The rectangular bottle designed for CELINE Haute Parfumerie respects the great tradition of French glassmaking. It is decorated on two sides with a sharp-edged fluting and topped with a faceted black lacquered cap. An aesthetic inherited from late 17th Century classicism, whose distinctive minimalism imbues the bottle with the modernity of Art Deco: spare and taut lines, a touch of black lacquer and transparent glass whose workmanship and amber-gold reflections highlight the nuances of each perfume.
The box is adorned in paper with a « grain de poudre » feel and an embossing that recreates the effect of 17th Century moldings. They are inspired by the woodwork paneling in the Hôtel Colbert de Torcy where the CELINE headquarters are located at 16, rue Vivienne in Paris.
The House’s emblem, the « Triomphe » is engraved on the top of the cap. It was chosen by its founder, Céline Vipiana, who, one day in 1971, saw her split initial « C » designed in the links cinching the Arc de Triomphe. It comes to complete this bottle’s sense of belonging to the history of the couture house.
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