I, for one, am a fan of art and commerce, so how excited was I to learn that one of my favorite pop-artist icons, Warhol (well, his foundation), is premiering a new perfume? Um, very! The bespectacled, white-haired iconic artist Andy Warhol was quoted saying years ago, “Another way to take up more space is with perfume. I really love wearing perfume,” so how prophetic is it that on Warhol’s eightieth birthday, today, August 6, niche fragrance maker Bond 09, will launch the Lexington Avenue fragrance. The fragrance is a nod to the artist’s former residences in Murray Hill (notably number 242) in New York City and his illustration career. The parfum breaks new ground as it brings together two of a woman’s favorite loves: shoes and parfum. The bottle design for the fragrance is also new ground, as it features colorful collages that were inspired by and reminiscent of Warhol’s early shoe sketches, reminding many of a successful career prior to the pop-art period of Campbell Soup cans and celebrity collages.
The fragrance’s juice, described as a floral-woody chypre (a fresh citrus), is composed of top notes of blue cypress, fennel, roasted almonds and cardamom; middle notes of pink peony, Florentine orris, Crème Brûlée and pimento berry; with base notes of patchouli and sandalwood. The scent is available in two sizes, a 100-ml bottle for $195 and a 50-ml size for $135, and will be available stateside at Saks Fifth Avenue, Bond 09’s New York City stores and museum gift shops nationwide. So ladies if you love art, shoes and fragrance, get your bottle fast, this is bound to be a bestseller and sell out fast.
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