La Dompteuse Encagée

Moreover, he likes to preserve a part of mystery in his compositions. The names of his essences are often ambiguous, just like the scent contained in his bottles. The new fragrance La Dompteuse Encagée from Serge Lutens's Collection Noire does not escape this tradition and does call for some explanations… Let us guide you through this discovery!

Serge Lutens's Collection Noire

La Dompteuse Encagée is a fragrance belonging to Serge Lutens's Collection Noire and this is apparent as soon as one sees its bottle. Indeed, it is meant to be as clean-lined as it is contemporary. Devoid of anything superfluous, it takes the form of a transparent glass rectangle, simply adorned with a black label and revealing an amber-colored juice. Only a black bead sits atop the structure, softening this very strict container. Like all the fragrances of the Collection Noire, La Dompteuse Encagée is a juice with a very particular formula, releasing a strong emotion and challenging conventional perfumery. A noble fragrance, La Dompteuse Encagée is meant to be revealing of our society. Its ambition? To spark self-questioning.

When Serge Lutens speaks to us of freedom of expression

Like all Serge Lutens fragrances, La Dompteuse Encagée comes with an intriguing quote, attributed to Serge Lutens: of this cold girl, made up in white, I must take full responsibility. Yet, of this dreaded snow, foreseen as it is, I sense the avalanche coming. What the whiteness of the flower has seen does not allow one to foretell freshness, the scent of frangipani makes up for it there. Subtly amended, to be savored directly on the skin. Behind this metaphor lies the image of our present-day society. The cold girl and the dreaded snow evoke the troubles of our century, while the whiteness and sweetness of the frangipani are like a glimmer of hope on the horizon. Here, Serge Lutens wished to evoke a muzzled language, as though caged. It is about embodying the restricted freedom of expression and the confined thoughts of our time. According to Serge Lutens, the human soul is as though trapped, but a window opens far off onto freedom. It is up to man alone to turn toward that light.

The sun-kissed, floral breath of La Dompteuse Encagée

As suggested by the quote provided by Serge Lutens, frangipani flower and almond are at play here. On one hand, the sun-kissed, vanilla-tinged exoticism plunges us into a paradisiacal elsewhere. On the other, the almond amplifies the gourmand character of this essence. The flowers nevertheless dominate over the sweet side. Paradoxically, this fragrance gives off a sense of well-being, ordinarily rather foreign to Serge Lutens's world… Be that as it may, the magic works and all of the creator's skill is indeed present!