Serge Lutens has created a limited edition bottle design the celebrate ten years of L’Orpheline, which was originally launched in 2014, as part of Collection Noire.
The fragrance, which contains notes of black pepper, dry woods, incense, patchouli and musk, was composed by Christopher Sheldrake, and was inspired, according to Lutens by “Orpheus, a poet who could charm even stones.”
The limited edition bottle features a puppeteer controlling a ballerina puppet:
“An elegant puppeteer seems to be pulling the strings of a delicate and ethereal ballerina. The destiny of the graceful young girl – suspended precariously mid-air – lies between the spidery fingers of this tall, slender dandy, doomed as she is to her inevitable fate!
And yet, is it so clear which one of the two is the executioner and which one the hapless victim? Looking closer, isn’t she also pulling the strings on her end, imperceptibly guiding the movements of the puppeteer’s emaciated fingers?
L’orpheline, the fascinating incarnation of all our illusions! When reality surfaces from behind appearances, when all our certainties begin to come undone, she evaporates in a mysterious and perplexing cloud of incense. Serge Lutens
L’Orpheline Limited Edition is available now from the Serge Lutens website
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