Hedi Slimane is, perhaps, fashion’s sharpest designer. Everything he touches turns into pure gold and his line-up of Haute Parfumerie is a nod to his incredible feat.
Adding to his French revolution at Celine, the Creative, Artistic and Image Director introduced an extension of his androgynous codes with a Haute Parfumerie collection debuting with eleven unisex scents.
Each developed by Slimane, the scents each have a narrative of its own as they’re inspired by his personal experience and interpretations of culture. Developed to take you from day to night, the fragrances call for extreme wearability and are named after famous Parisian landmarks – apart from Slimane’s tribute to California with Eau de Californie – as well as his experiences with Black Tie, Nightclubbing and Reptile.
The latest addition to the Haute Parfumerie line-up is Bois Dormant, a scent that evokes the luxurious comfort and classic architecture of a blazer Slimane has designed and is quite significant throughout his life as a couturier. Complete with notes of bergamot, juniper, cedar, vetiver and white orris butter, the powerful woody fragrance boasts a powdery cologne.
To ensure that its Haute Parfumerie collection is with you every step of the way, Celine enriched its offering with a travel spray – the quintessence of a Parisian couture accessory. It’s easily refillable which allows you to change your scent again and again, available in a faceted design that echoes a bottle inspired by French-style classicism and the distinctive minimalism of art deco.
Also, under Slimane’s Haute Parfumerie collection also lies a new olfactory journal: the Candle collection. Following the debut of the perfumes in 2019, the offering is enriched with a candle collection that revives a very personal ritual and reinterprets the themes and stylistic codes held dear to the couturier.
Guided by Slimane, perfumers and wax-makers combined their talents, craft and savoir-faire at each step of the candle’s creation – six released in 2021 and two released this year – and renew the neo-classic and elegant sophistication fashioned by its heritage.
Under Slimane’s Haute Parfumerie collection also lies a new olfactory journal: the Candle collection. Following the debut of the perfumes in 2019, the offering is enriched with a candle collection that revives a very personal ritual and reinterprets the themes and stylistic codes held dear to the couturier.
Guided by Slimane, perfumers and wax-makers combined their talents, craft and savoir-faire at each step of the candle’s creation – six released in 2021 and two released this year – and renew the neo-classic and elegant sophistication fashioned by its heritage.
The coveted collection is fronted by Lisa, the first ambassador for the French fashion house, where she epitomises its effortless ‘it’ girl aesthetic in a new fragrance campaign. The campaign, directed and shot by Slimane, takes us on a soothing tour set in the South of France dressed in a crystal-covered Celine gown.
Celine’s Haute Parfumerie collection is available at Celine boutiques in Mall of the Emirates and The Dubai Mall.
