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New Fragrance: Serge Lutens - Jeux de Peau

post #1 of 140
11/9/10 at 8:43am
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From osmoz.com:

Serge Lutens is as playful as ever, and his latest fragrance, scheduled to launch in early 2011 will probably surprise you: it smells like buttered toast! The somewhat farfetched idea behind this eccentric scent was that Serge Lutens wanted to recreate the odor of the buttered toast he liked so much as a little boy. To all those men and women, since its a unisex scent who will be tempted to butter themselves up with this unusual, oriental-charred-wood scent, Serge Lutens professes, Eat, for this is my body. But just what notes actually go into Jeux de peau (Skin Games)? Monsieur Serge is staying mum about the formula, so well just have to enlighten you. Very sandalwood / milky at the top, the fragrance soon reveals a toast accord with a few sweeter and floral facets that call rosewood to mind, and other, more sugar-and-spice ones, with a licorice-coco feel to them. A hint of something apricot-fruity (would that be osmanthus by any chance, Monsieur Serge?) brings a finishing touch to this tasty breakfast in a bottle. Rumor has it that this toasty eau de parfum even contains a wheat extract. To be sure, youll have to wait until February or March...

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post #2 of 140
11/9/10 at 8:59am
It sounds awesome! Like many of SL's scents, innovative and high-quality but so not wearable by me (though maybe I shouldn't be so quick to judge...), it sounds just fascinating, all the way through.
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post #3 of 140
11/9/10 at 9:20am
I always wondered why nobody tried to recreate the wonderful aroma of warm butter and toasted bread. It seams that Lutens granted my wishes. Will this one be launched in the export or paris exclusive line?
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post #4 of 140
11/9/10 at 10:19am
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Originally Posted by Sunnyfunny View Post

Like many of SL's scents, innovative and high-quality but so not wearable by me...

Exactly. It's all very impressive to have recreated the scent of buttered toast. But if I want to smell buttered toast, why would I spend $150 for a bottle of perfume to approximate it and not just toast some bread and butter it? And, as delicious as simple buttered toast is, do I really want to walk around all day smelling of it? Maybe the next SL release will be the scent of bacon and eggs frying and we can layer the two?

It may be an interesting -- even amazing -- technical accomplishment in prefumery to duplicate and bottle this scent, but I, for one, can not see myself wearing it.
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post #5 of 140
11/9/10 at 10:22am
It sounds delicious and potentially fatal for the diet !!!!!!!11111
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post #6 of 140
11/9/10 at 10:45am
I'm on a lowcarb, zero grain diet for life.

But it sounds like a wonderful idea.
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post #7 of 140
11/9/10 at 10:59am
Sounds amazing + I absolutely love the name.
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post #8 of 140
11/9/10 at 2:54pm
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Originally Posted by Roc_Xel View Post

Sounds amazing + I absolutely love the name.

I agree. I am looking forward to trying it.
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post #9 of 140
11/9/10 at 4:27pm
Sounds like Serge may be thinking outside of the bottle again.
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post #10 of 140
11/9/10 at 4:46pm

A scent I often try to get rid of asap. do not want serge.
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post #11 of 140
11/9/10 at 5:04pm
Milky sandalwood? Sounds like this is going to be a cross between Santal Nobile and maybe 5 Oclock au Gingembre? I think it would give a nice homey and comforting scent. Is there any indication that this is going into the export line, or is it a boutique line?
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post #12 of 140
11/9/10 at 10:27pm
It's export 50 ml according to the photo http://www.osmoz.fr/Actus-Tendances/...de-pain-beurre
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post #13 of 140
11/9/10 at 10:48pm
Hmm.. now this sounds interesting! I hope he isn't TOO successful at recreating it, or else it will just smell like buttered toast. That'd be quite bizarre, even for a weirdo like me.
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post #14 of 140
11/10/10 at 12:07am
I do so love the smell of buttered toast, especially with cinnamon sprinkled on it. I think a lot of these food scents miss an important component that probably couldn't be recreated - the warmth and the steamy wafts of scent that float up to your nose while you're taking a good bite out of the toast. The heat's missing. Then again, that's just my opinion.
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post #15 of 140
11/10/10 at 4:29am
Hmmm, I dislike obvious foody notes in perfumes. The smell of white bread puts me off anyway. What "worries" me more is the word "peau"... are we a bit tame again (after Boxeuses)?
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post #16 of 140
11/10/10 at 4:36am
Count me among the excited.

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Originally Posted by Gollnick View Post

But if I want to smell buttered toast, why would I spend $150 for a bottle of perfume to approximate it and not just toast some bread and butter it? And, as delicious as simple buttered toast is, do I really want to walk around all day smelling of it?

To answer question #1, because it isn't just any buttered toast, it will be Serge Luten's buttered toast and so it should taste - I mean smell - phenomenal. To answer question #2, yes, you do.

Thanks for the heads up, petruccijc. Sounds delicious, and your photo is making me drool. Toast never looked so good! All it needs is some tea to go with it. (Tea for Two, or Eau de The Vert? ha ha ha)
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post #17 of 140
11/10/10 at 6:04am
Oh, dear! It doesn't sound particularly exotic, does it? This sounds like something CdG would have rustled up...
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post #18 of 140
11/10/10 at 6:10am
Yes yes yes!!!!!!!!
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post #19 of 140
11/10/10 at 6:15am
I guess gourmands aren't going away anytime soon. I'm curious, but will continue my breathing as usual.
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post #20 of 140
11/10/10 at 6:21am
Thank goodness this is coming out. Rubbing buttery rye bread on my chest was ruining my shirts.

This sounds real good.
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post #21 of 140
11/10/10 at 7:00am
Ok i'm done getting super excited. I'm so happy my favorite house is creating something i've been looking for for sometime now. I just can not wait!
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post #22 of 140
11/10/10 at 7:41am
When I read the original post I thought it was a joke. Buttered toast? Oh my.
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post #23 of 140
11/10/10 at 8:17am
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Originally Posted by Trebor View Post

Oh, dear! It doesn't sound particularly exotic, does it? This sounds like something CdG would have rustled up...

It`s quite intriguing that they haven`t done it. Neither Demeter, which does this to a lot of aromas. Now i got curious why doesn`t anyone tried to do it before...
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post #24 of 140
11/10/10 at 8:41am
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Originally Posted by rickbr View Post

Now i got curious why doesn`t anyone tried to do it before...

My guess is that the butter aroma easily can come across as rancid. Butyric acid is not to be toyed with...
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post #25 of 140
11/10/10 at 8:59am
Hmmm, that's a smell I enjoy in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical as to how well I will like it as a perfume... I'll have to wait and see.
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post #26 of 140
11/10/10 at 10:17am
I wonder whether the bread or the butter will be the top note? And if the bottle would fall on the carpet will it change?
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post #27 of 140
11/10/10 at 11:47am
As a fan of certain gourmands (New Haarlem, Puro Intense), I'm very intrigued and excited to try this one.
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post #28 of 140
11/10/10 at 11:53am
I'm looking forward to this. Hopefully everyone likes it and I don't have to read about how "amazing" or "innovative" Chergui is. As if.
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post #29 of 140
11/10/10 at 12:20pm
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Originally Posted by Surfacing View Post

I'm looking forward to this. Hopefully everyone likes it and I don't have to read about how "amazing" or "innovative" Chergui is. As if.

Actually, Chergui is the only SL scent that I found to be FBW.
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post #30 of 140
11/10/10 at 12:28pm
I think a person would wear this around someone who really likes buttered toast and was hungry.
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post #31 of 140
11/10/10 at 6:45pm
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Originally Posted by supperman View Post

Milky sandalwood? Sounds like this is going to be a cross between Santal Nobile and maybe 5 Oclock au Gingembre? I think it would give a nice homey and comforting scent. Is there any indication that this is going into the export line, or is it a boutique line?

I would blind buy a scent with that description.
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post #32 of 140
11/14/10 at 2:45pm
More precisions http://www.lejdd.fr/Style-de-vie/Bea...Lutens-231914/
It's more the hot bread odor from a bakery i guess...

But it's interesting that SL curently work on a "much more violent story"
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post #33 of 140
11/14/10 at 3:20pm
As much as I look forward to this, I just read a review of serge lutens critisizing all the bakery smelling fragrance.
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post #34 of 140
11/14/10 at 3:33pm
Sounds good to me. Serge Lutens, an artist who creates olfactory art and worries about sales, not so much. Now when I spill a little jam on my shirt, I'll call it layering. Seriously, good work Serge, I'll buy a bottle.
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post #35 of 140
11/14/10 at 3:39pm
Let's hope it's not simply a lazy variation on L'Artisan's Bois Farine...
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post #36 of 140
11/15/10 at 3:24am
Sorry, but I just can't muster the enthusiasm for this release. Perhaps Serge needs to take a long (working) vacation to yet another inspiring location...
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post #37 of 140
11/15/10 at 4:59am
The premise doesn't sound of much interest to me but I'm sure that I am going sample it at sometimes in the near future. It's just nothing I feel that special urge for.
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post #38 of 140
11/15/10 at 5:55am
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Originally Posted by Kevin Guyer View Post

I guess gourmands aren't going away anytime soon. I'm curious, but will continue my breathing as usual.

Kevin *LOL* This new scent will be interesting though I'm not sure I want to smell like buttered toast!
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post #39 of 140
11/15/10 at 8:33am
I truly am looking forward to trying this one out...as far as buying a full bottle for Lutens prices, hmmmm, time will tell.
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post #40 of 140
11/15/10 at 8:43am
Dam... now I'm hungry for toast with no bread in the house.
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post #41 of 140
11/30/10 at 2:20pm
My sample is on the road, will smell this at the end of the week.

Don't worry, some already smell it told it's a classical lutens (oriental and fruity), not a groundbreaking hot bread scent...
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post #42 of 140
11/30/10 at 2:33pm
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Originally Posted by Diamondflame View Post

Perhaps Serge needs to take a long (working) vacation to yet another inspiring location...

I think he has, Jolly Ole England. First it was tea time, now it's breakfast time. I hear Sunday dinner is next: Force de Muscle
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post #43 of 140
12/1/10 at 10:53pm
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Originally Posted by Trebor View Post

Let's hope it's not simply a lazy variation on L'Artisan's Bois Farine...

Bois Farine smells like a peanut butter sandwich. Another "toasty" perfume is Miroir des Envies by Muegler.
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post #44 of 140
12/1/10 at 11:35pm
Can't wait to try.
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post #45 of 140
12/13/10 at 2:50am
I finally smelled it..a very good surprise for me (think i'll purchase a bottle).
It starts with a fascinating bread crust note. Not a white or hot bread of all, but a rustic bread with a well baked big crust. This is followed by a beautiful white santal note, very pure, very milky-creamy. The sandalwood is subtly warmed by discreets spices, apricot jam, something roasted (corn?), but they are never overpowering or gourmand. In the drydown, it's constrasted beetween the crust note and the sweetness from sandalwood. An elegant oriental breakfast in the Lutens house, i think i really love it !
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post #46 of 140
12/13/10 at 8:36am
Mon-Petit

Is it another skin scent or is it loud has 5 o'clock ?
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post #47 of 140
12/13/10 at 11:14am
I don't really know as i didn't vaporisated it and used little quantity from sample, but the longevity was nice enough compared to the rest of the line, and i don't find 5 o clock particulary so loud (but i don't wear it it's maybe for that). I find it stronger than Boxeuses ;-)
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post #48 of 140
12/13/10 at 12:47pm
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Originally Posted by Mon-Petit View Post

I finally smelled it..a very good surprise for me (think i'll purchase a bottle).
It starts with a fascinating bread crust note. Not a white or hot bread of all, but a rustic bread with a well baked big crust. This is followed by a beautiful white santal note, very pure, very milky-creamy. The sandalwood is subtly warmed by discreets spices, apricot jam, something roasted (corn?), but they are never overpowering or gourmand. In the drydown, it's constrasted beetween the crust note and the sweetness from sandalwood. An elegant oriental breakfast in the Lutens house, i think i really love it !

This actually sounds really nice.
Thanks for the review.
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post #49 of 140
12/13/10 at 12:57pm
Demeter has a Cinammon Toast. To me, it smells like someone forgot to toast the bread... no, forgot to bake the bread, so to me, it is more like cinnamon dough.

Anyway, this is interesting, but I wonder how wearable it will be.
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post #50 of 140
12/13/10 at 7:06pm
I <3 Lutens
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post #51 of 140
12/14/10 at 11:08am
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Originally Posted by Mon-Petit View Post

I don't really know as i didn't vaporisated it and used little quantity from sample, but the longevity was nice enough compared to the rest of the line, and i don't find 5 o clock particulary so loud (but i don't wear it it's maybe for that). I find it stronger than Boxeuses ;-)

Stronger than Boxeuses?
That's nice!
I like Bouxeuses very much but if I want a skin scent I'd go for another brands!
A Lutens must be loud and strong for me! And very sweet, of course!
I think i'll like Jeus de Peau
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post #52 of 140
12/18/10 at 2:31pm
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Originally Posted by Mon-Petit View Post

I finally smelled it..a very good surprise for me (think i'll purchase a bottle).
It starts with a fascinating bread crust note. Not a white or hot bread of all, but a rustic bread with a well baked big crust. This is followed by a beautiful white santal note, very pure, very milky-creamy. The sandalwood is subtly warmed by discreets spices, apricot jam, something roasted (corn?), but they are never overpowering or gourmand. In the drydown, it's constrasted beetween the crust note and the sweetness from sandalwood. An elegant oriental breakfast in the Lutens house, i think i really love it !

It sounds wonderful. Exciting!
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post #53 of 140
12/18/10 at 3:39pm
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Originally Posted by Mon-Petit View Post

I finally smelled it....a rustic bread with a well baked big crust.......followed by a beautiful white santal note........very milky-creamy........spices, apricot jam, something roasted..........never overpowering or gourmand.

I'm glad Monsieur Lutens is back from trying to play Mr. Clean, it just didn't suit him. This sounds like a lovely oriental day-dream. Thanks for your evocative description, MP.
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post #54 of 140
1/22/11 at 4:45am
I've just received a FB of this (blind-bought on eBay..the price was too good to refuse >_>) and I too am pleasantly surprised.

Smelling it from the bottle, you can really get a buttered-toast sort-of-smell and it really does smell yummy! I get an Aomassai vibe from the topnotes, but whereas Aomassai becomes more woody in its drydown, JdP has fruitier notes. That's not to say it becomes totally fruity though, as the scent retains its gourmand/oriental-ness. Definitely worth a try if you're an SL fan. =]
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post #55 of 140
1/22/11 at 6:13pm
So is this officially released?
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post #56 of 140
1/31/11 at 10:52am
Something interesting going on with this one.

The Perfume Shoppe Canada has it up for sale at $140.

But the official Serge Lutens site France says its not available until 1st March.
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post #57 of 140
1/31/11 at 8:15pm
Really want to smell this...

((impatient))
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post #58 of 140
1/31/11 at 8:40pm
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Originally Posted by donna255 View Post

Something interesting going on with this one.

The Perfume Shoppe Canada has it up for sale at $140.

But the official Serge Lutens site France says its not available until 1st March.

There has been bottles of it floating around. I'm sure most stores have received it, and not all of them commit to the official release date. The Perfume Shoppe is very reliable as far as I know.
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post #59 of 140
2/1/11 at 1:24pm
I haven't smelled this one yet (as soon as possible I will) but I have a super stong feeling that this one will be the biggest SL (seller) hit in years. Mark my words.

Maybe the biggest hit since Daim Blond (2004), or Five O'Clock Au Gingembre (2008) at least...
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post #60 of 140
2/8/11 at 1:08am
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