Jeux de Peau

It is part of daily life, of memories, and of the best of childhood. The bakery, warm bread cracking under one's fingers, and steaming milk. A Proustian madeleine signed Lutens, in short!

A Jeux de Peau where the adult steps into the skin of the dreaming child...

For Lutens, a fragrance is above all a way to tell a story, to recall a memory, the memory of a summer ending with a gray field of lavender in Gris Clair, the smell of austere serge in Serge Noire, or, for this Jeux de Peau, the memory of the bakery that lit up and guided young Serge Lutens through a dark and gloomy street of his native Lille.

It is the small nothings that make up our greatest memories, and it is this madeleine that Lutens wanted to bring out of his memory, to lead us toward gourmand, sweet notes that are at once familiar and yet experienced differently by each person.

Because Jeux de Peau is a play of fragrances. A fragrance is ultimately nothing other than that, a play of the skin. It is the skin that plays […]. A fragrance is different on every skin, like a lipstick: on 20 people it will give 20 different colors. There will be similarities, of course, a kinship, but they will then be 20 different fragrances. So let the games begin now!

Toasted bread, apricot, butter, and a bit of coffee for this Jeux de Peau, please?

Naturally, one expects to discover for this Jeux de Peau luminous, pearly tones, like peach-colored skin, emerging as if by magic from the traditional Lutens fragrance bottle. But the lovely juice offers something even better: golden glints of bread fresh out of the oven, brightening and unmistakably illuminating the bottle.

From the top notes, one is immediately caught up in candied notes, as if opening a jar of delicately sweet apricot jam. The jam blends with sweet floral and spicy notes to carry through to the heart. And there, a surprise: warm bread notes wrap around senses already won over. The bread is toasted by warm, sensual sandalwood and olibanum. Finally, the depths of this Jeux de Peau lead directly to a lavishly laid breakfast table, where notes of coffee, warm milk, vanilla, and caramel meet with delight the sultry, rounded warmth of sandalwood, incense, and labdanum.

Jeux de Peau is a true gourmand and tender fragrance that stretches toward warmth and roundness thanks to the sandalwood touch essential to Lutens fragrances. One step into this fragrance and the senses are intoxicated by thoroughly gourmand, addictive raw materials. Jeux de Peau is therefore a gourmand fragrance that knows how to whet the appetite without giving the impression, often found with new gourmands, of having eaten too much!