La Fille de Berlin

This rose is meant far more to be looked at and smelled than to be picked, perhaps too wild, too strong-charactered? Be that as it may, La Fille de Berlin is part of a vibrant heartfelt homage signed Lutens and Sheldrake.

What if La Fille de Berlin were a woman dear to Lutens's heart?

Of course, when discovering this deeply red fragrance, one is drawn as much by the lascivious seduction of its color as by the curiosity that pushes one to want to know the mysterious woman Lutens means to speak of with this new fragrance La Fille de Berlin.

In reality three “women” occupy the heart of this poignant homage: the rose, the city of Berlin and Serge Lutens's mother. Between joys and dramas, thorns and tenderness, each in their own way inhabits La Fille de Berlin, making this wholly original and surprising fragrance an addictive and passionate perfume.

La Fille de Berlin is indeed “a girl of extremes,” a fragrance hesitating between the homage of a child wounded by the death of his mother and the passion of an artist for the city in which he was born. For Berlin had already called to Lutens, resulting in a magnificent photo book, Serge Lutens Berlin à Paris. Yet it seems not everything had been said, and we are fortunate that he chose to address it in fragrant form with La Fille de Berlin.
La Fille de Berlin thus seems to hold in store striking contrasts between clawed blows and matters of the heart.

La Fille de Berlin is a fatal rose, a thorny woman...

When Lutens chooses to place a raw material at the center of attention, he sets this star scent at the heart of the color of the juice in his so understated bottle. With the bloodred hue that seems to strike us head-on, we quickly understand that the rose Lutens wishes to offer us will hardly carry the usual tenderness of its rivals.

Black pepper and spices are thrown straight at the nose by this Fille de Berlin, which announces itself as terribly thorny and full of character. Fortunately it softens quickly, releasing precious candied fruity notes worthy of the master Lutens. Then the powerful, carnal, charming rose appears, accompanied by its best ally, violet, making us forget, through its tenderness, its almost metallic olfactory anger at the start. The note reminiscent of raspberry jam brings a new syrupy comfort that wraps us in this floral tenderness. Yet geranium reminds us that this softened rose still has plenty of temperament.

Finally we reach the hidden depths of this rose, which gradually reveals itself beneath certain sensualities of amber woods and musk. The smoky, syrupy sweetness gradually dissipates, transforming into an almost animalic rose where the amber fur allows the evocation of all the most beautiful maternal memories.

La Fille de Berlin is a magnificent noble and refined floral oriental, presented at once as an almost maternal feminine sweetness while displaying an almost virile fiery temperament. A fragrance of emotion, La Fille de Berlin carries us into the city and life of Lutens, swept between original drama and the joy of contemplation.