Arabie

With Arabie, our noses are lured in by a few oriental dishes, only to be propelled further still into the wonderfully wooded heights of the Morocco so dear to Lutens.

Arabie, or the splendor of oriental cuisine with a Lutens touch!

How to describe the passion Serge Lutens maintains for Morocco? By smelling the majority of Lutens perfumes. For let us be honest, all Lutens perfumes have, of course on different scales, a little something of the Orient — a sandalwood, a cedar, a flower such as jasmine. And of course, one need only linger over Lutens' great successes such as Rahät Loukoum, Cuir Mauresque, Bois Oriental or even Ambre Sultan (released almost simultaneously with Arabie) to understand that nothing could ever separate this artist from the scents of the Orient.

With Arabie, the journey unfolds, as with Rahät Loukoum, in a rather gastronomic mode. Like a Proustian madeleine scented with cumin and curry. But “the madeleine” aims to be far more than just another ordinary oriental on the shelves of classic perfumeries; thus Arabie is “Arab” before being oriental, quite simply because the strength it carries goes beyond a banal aroma.

The fragrance itself is not a subject. It is a whole set of things it conveys. It cannot be separated from the person, how they live it, how they feel it, what it reminds them of. This memory is a resonance. Everything resonates, emotions reproduce themselves, whether one is aware of it or not, said Serge Lutens about his Jeux de Peau, with its warm bread scent.

For Arabie, there is no warm bread, but sweet fruits and sun-kissed spices to be savored deeply, all the better to feel the intensity of a rediscovered emotion.

Arabie, or the creation of “a gourmand and generous gingerbread” according to Lutens

What could be better than a sublime fragrance of a golden-brown hue to showcase this subtle cocktail of spices and fruits of the Orient that is Arabie? The beauty of the juice lets us glimpse the beauty of its wonderful scents...

From the top notes, we are captivated by delicately tangy and sweet notes of mandarin peel paired, for the better, with brown dates and dried figs. The smoky facet then becomes balsamic and candied, one of the most beautiful effects delivered by Lutens perfumes.

The precious spices of this Orient enter this gastronomic scene in the form of clove, nutmeg, cardamom and cumin, fused with a touch of the aromatic bitterness of laurel leaf. The gourmand character and the liqueur-like quality of this addictive blend melt into intense woody depths of tonka bean and benzoin. The smoky sweetness of myrrh exhales gracefully within this deep sillage, punctuated by a few sensual animalic touches of labdanum.

Dried fruits, Corinth raisins, dates, cashews and everything that gives fragrance; a caravan that loses itself in the desert, said Serge Lutens about Arabie. With Arabie, only one desire prevails: to lose oneself in the gastronomic and phantasmagorical desert of this so brilliant Lutens creation!