Fils De Joie: The new creation by Serge Lutens. Serge Lutens is a perfume creator unlike any other, who delights in immersing us in a unique and enigmatic universe. His compositions are reserved for knowledgeable perfume consumers seeking novelty.
Particularly prolific and inventive, Serge Lutens designs several new perfumes a year, always in a highly creative and atypical register. Because he sees perfumery as a genuine laboratory of new ideas, he never follows trends and creates his own path. In 2020, he crafted a new fragrance named Fils de Joie, an infinitely luminous creation containing ylang-ylang and jasmine, while evoking Serge Lutens's origins, born in the north of France. If this perfume is a real discovery in terms of scent, sharply contrasting with Serge Lutens's previous fragrances, it reuses the house's iconic bottle. So, let us take the opportunity to examine this elegant bottle in more detail.
A rectangle of glass emblematic of the Collection Noire
As always, Fils de Joie comes in the bottle identical to all the juices in Serge Lutens's Collection Noire. Yet its bottle is far from being entirely black and opaque. In reality, it is a block of glass with transparent contours. Very slender, this bottle stretches skyward in a very elongated style. Like a contemporary building, it rises upward and comes in two spray bottles of different sizes, 50 ml or 100 ml. Moreover, while this bottle may seem rather simple and stripped of anything superfluous, it is in fact the result of remarkable bottle-making work. Its walls are set into one another, while its neck is finely sculpted with several facets. It is therefore the result of exceptional and meticulous glasswork.
Serge Lutens treats himself to a small ball as a cap
Sharply contrasting with the rigorous and highly geometric style of this bottle, its cap forms a black hemisphere. This ball sits atop the whole and plays on contrasts. Indeed, while the bottle of Fils de Joie is entirely transparent, its ball ventures into an opaque black, matching the color of this perfume's label. Thus, despite this interplay of light and shadow, Fils de Joie displays a perfect balance.
The oriental style of the Fils de Joie bottle
Finally, let us note that this bottle has a somewhat atypical element. Indeed, its description tells us that this is a composition inspired by the North of France, the place where Serge Lutens spent most of his childhood. As proof, it comes with a description telling us that it is about the surreal atmosphere of a bar in the North experienced through a child's eyes. Yet the imagery present on the Fils de Joie label falls within a more oriental style. The drawings running across its label form arabesques. It must be said that Serge Lutens currently lives in Marrakech and that he is also greatly inspired by the aesthetic influences of his adopted country. Thus, the perfume Fils de Joie appears as a link between the creator's past and present. Quite a symbol!