Amethyst Éclat (2014) is the clear reinterpretation of Amethyst by Nathalie Lorson, who had already signed the elder. Raspberry, blackcurrant and pear open onto a wide peony brightened by magnolia and softened by rose; blackberry, musk and violet close it. A fruity floral that is deliberately understated, brighter than powerful.
The silhouette of Amethyst in a lighter iridescent mauve, on a design drawn from Épines, a 1920 collection by René Lalique.
The bottle of Amethyst Éclat reinvents nothing, and this is deliberate: it keeps its elder's line and merely lightens the shade. The deep purple of 2007 becomes an iridescent mauve, paler, playing with gradients like a stone held against the light.
The origin of the design goes back much further than the fragrance. The entire Amethyst line draws on Épines, a collection of accessories that René Lalique had designed in 1920: the name, the color and the motif come from there, and the juice arrived only afterward. This is the usual order at the house, where the object almost always precedes the fragrance.
The glass carries in relief the vocabulary of the fragrance itself. Peonies and berries run along the body of the bottle, so that the object states the formula before it has been smelled. The device could weigh things down; it holds together because the motif remains shallow and the color absorbs it.