Louis Vuitton’s New Book Includes $ 5,000-Worth of Perfume – ryan
Louis Vuitton’s New Coffee Table Book is not just for reading – it’s also for sniffing. The French Fashion House’s Latest, Ultra-Luxe Extracurricular Endeavor is a 380-Page Volume Exploring the Raw Materials, from Indian Old to Italian Bergamot, that inspires its far-rearance collection.
Titled A Perfume Atlasthe book was created in collaboration with Jacques Cavallier Belletrud, Louis Vuitton’s in-house Master Perfumer.
Belletrud takes readers on a trip around the world, highlighting the far-flung locales he visits to source ingredients for his olfactive creatations.
Chronicled via Photographs and Illustrations, the Perfumer’s Travels team the Globe.
Belletrud hits a host of locales for the finest raw materials, including Sri Lanka for Cinnamon; The Ivory Coast for Cacao (A Key Note in Louis Vuitton’s fragrance Nouveau mouths); Tunisia for neroli (featured in Imagination); and Even Louis Vuitton’s Home Turf of France – Specifically Grasse, The World’s Perfume Capital – For Rose and Jasmine (found in Rose des vents and Apogérespectively).
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Belletrud’s Fine Fragrance Book Can Be Purchased as a Standalone On Louis Vuitton’s website For $ 160-But why not splurge on Louis Vuitton’s Limited-Edition Box Set, which includes extractions of all 45 ingredients catalogued in the book?
Each extraction is carefully bottled, labeled with its name and original, and nestled in a Louis Vuitton-Branded coffee (A fancy box, in other words).
Of course, this smell-able addition to LV’s new tome do not come cheap.
The Extra Fragrant Box Set is available at Select Louis Vuitton Physical Locations for $ 5,000 – A Pittance for Lv loyalists, Especially in Comparison to some of the the intentionally indulgent fare recently put forth at Humanity Creative Director Pharrell.
But for casual fragrance fans, maybe not-so-sweat a scent.