Bond No. 9 celebrate Warhol's birthday with new fragrance: Lexington Avenue

by Grant Osborne, 17 September 2008

Bond No.9 are celebrating the 80th Annivesary of Andy Warhol's birthday by launching their third Warhol fragrance: Lexington Avenue, which follows Silver Factory and Union Square.

According to Bond No. 9:

Its name, Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue, recalls the artist’s formative pre-Pop years in 1950s New York, when he lived in the first of several apartments on Lexington Avenue and plied his trade as a prolific illustrator—mainly of imaginative shoes. Hence the Warhol-designed mélange of exclamation-point heels and high-button boots that covers the flacon. Lush and unapologetically seductive, Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue dares (perhaps for the first time in perfumery) to link two of the most ultra-feminine commodities a woman can own: fragrance and footwear.

The scent is a floral-woody-chypre containing notes of peony, orris, patchouli, sandalwood, cardamom, fennel, almonds, cumin, and even crème brulee.

Bond No. 9's Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue is available from September 2008 at Bond No. 9 stores and stockists. Eau de Pafum: $195 for 100ml; $135 for 50ml

For the holiday season, Limited-edition flacons will feature Robert Lee Morris sterling silver shoe pendants of Warhol’s shoe designs—four of them—on a sterling silver chain. Launch date: September 2008. Suggested retail price: $575.