Guerlain imagines this time the smell of a pleated dress
Yet this perfume imbued with the mysteries of the mystical clairvoyance of the poet perfumer emerges the symbol of an entirely feminine purity, born from the pain of isolation. Divine whiteness and dark blackness merge to better give birth to La Religieuse.
Between good and evil, white and black, La Religieuse de Lutens hesitates and shoves ...
The creation of a perfume, for Serge Lutens, is done like a work of art, a photograph or a novel: an initial memory, a past pain then finally the flash of a sign that opens up all possible fields.
For La Religieuse, Serge Lutens drew on his fertile and wanted isolation today in the shadow of his so dear riad in Marrakech to go back to his childish exclusion subjected and erected by the pain of not having been desired. Thus The Nun takes the path of pure and floral redemption while kneeling in front of dense and almost cursed animalities.
The visual of La Religieuse à la corette placed on the bottle plays with this striking contrast spread out in the darkness of a dark frame. Aesthetic and pure, the photo of La Religieuse is not just advertising, it tells a story like perfume. That of the artist Serge Lutens. And that of femininity too. Of this femininity double imprint of enveloping angelism and unloving cruelty.
“For me, she [The Nun] embodies the sensual purity of femininity. The one that has always obsessed me. An icy woman who burns her fingers. Good and bad at the same time. Like snow. White, intact, but we want to trample. »Serge Lutens for La Religieuse.
The purity of the violet fights against the “forbidden” sensuality of the animal note
Of this Nun who hides under the troubled personality of its creator Serge Lutens, we only glimpse the purple dress through its bottle equal to those of this magnificent collection of Lutens fragrances. The dazzling purple of the juice of La Religieuse is once again devoted to representing Serge Lutens in love, even passionate, with the color of violet and jasmine to the point of decorating the walls of his favorite store at the Royal Palace.
As for the architecture of La Religieuse, it is both transparent and obscure. The top notes of pure and airy jasmine leave nothing to guess at the wild heart. Then the brutal animality of the civet offers us its violent and musky scents like a claw planted in the sweet flower. Finally, good and evil end up harmonizing all the same in the deep wake subtly mixing cottony white musks and mysterious incense.
The universe of La Religieuse is austere and contrasted with white and black, evil and good, cottony and flowery snow and harsh and blackened dust. The film created by the artist pays homage to this ultimate duality. The universe of Serge Lutens merges with that of this Religious. Didn't he say "The Nun is me"?