Serge Lutens - Ambre sultan

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Serge Lutens - Ambre sultan

“Amber for the Sultan: This fragrance is not an Oriental, but an Arabian composition and typical Serge Lutens, so don't expect it to fit in with the norm.

The point of departure was a scented wax, found in a souk and long forgotten in a wooden box. The amber only became “sultanesque” after I reworked the composition using cistus, an herb that sticks to the fingers like tar, then added an overtone that nobody had ever dreamed of: vanilla. Why? Because vanilla is sticky, too, and it clung to my memory. Serge Lutens

The idea for "Ambre sultan" came to Serge Lutens as he smelled a piece of amber which he had given on his first trip to Marrakech in 1968. He had kept it for several years in a box made of grained thuja wood. Over time, the two scents had blended together…

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The fragrances from Serge Lutens can be worn by both men and women and are all combinable. In order for you to optimally enjoy your Serge Lutens fragrance, we recommend the following:

How to use
Due to their good blood circulation, some parts of the body are particularly suitable for applying fragrances, such as the inside of the wrists, knees or armpits. Applying fragrance directly after a warm shower is especially recommended as the fragrance melds better with the skin and lasts considerably longer. To ensure that the delicate scent molecules are not destroyed when applied, please do not rub the fragrance but pat it gently in. To prevent discolouration on clothes, the perfume should never be applied directly to any clothing. Please be careful not to apply the perfume on parts of the skin that are exposed to sun as direct sunlight may cause skin discolouration.
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Serge Lutens was born during the war, on March 14th, 1942 in Lille, in northern France. Separated from his mother when he was just weeks old, his personality was indelibly marked by this original abandonment. Permanently torn between two families, he lived life at a distance and through his imagination. He was a dreamer. At the École Montesquieu, they said he was “on the moon”: he paid no attention, although his teachers recognized that he was a gifted storyteller.

In 1956, at the age of 14, he was given a job against his will - he would have preferred being an actor - in a beauty salon in his native city. Two years later, he had already established the feminine hallmarks that he would make his own: eye shadow, ethereally beautiful skin, short hair plastered down. He also became known for the colour black, from which he never deviated. He confirmed his tastes and his choices with the female friends of his whom he photographed.

He was 18 when he was called up to serve in the army during the Algerian War. He was remolded. This was an important break that led him to make his decision: to leave Lille and head for Paris. This was 1962.

Helped by a friend, Madeleine Levy, and bearing large prints of his photographs of his friends, Serge Lutens, experiencing his first years in Paris at a time of insecurity and want, contacted Vogue magazine. For him, this magazine represented the essence of beauty: a sort of convent that he mythologized. Three days later, he collaborated on the Christmas issue.

The creator of a vision through makeup, jewellery and extraordinary objects, Serge Lutens quickly became the person to call, and the fashion magazines were not mistaken: Elle, Jardin des Modes, Harper’s Bazaar were constantly after him: he worked with the greatest photographers of the time, all the while pursuing his own photographic work. During these years, his talent was fully acknowledged.

In 1967, Christian Dior, who was preparing to launch its makeup line, called upon him. For the House of Dior he would create colours, styles and images. Finally, his vision was unified through photography.

In the early 1970’s, the famous editor-in-chief of US Vogue, Diana Vreeland, was unstinting in her enthusiasm: “Serge Lutens, Revolution of Make-up!” His success was resounding. Serge Lutens became the symbol of the freedom created through makeup, for a whole new generation. In 1974, mirroring his taste for films and the legendary actresses in them, he made a short: “Les Stars.”

During this period, he travelled widely, exploring Morocco and later Japan. These two countries, with their rich and yet so different cultures, came together in him and confirmed his way of seeing and feeling.

After gaining fame for creating a make-up range for Christian Dior in 1967, Serge Lutens became a symbol

He recalled them some years later, in 1980, when he signed on with Shiseido for a collaboration that was to enable the Japanese cosmetics group, until then unknown on the international scene, to establish such a powerful visual identity that it became one of the world’s leading market players in the 1980’s and ‘90’s. In 1982, for the same brand, he conceived Nombre Noir, his first perfume, dressed in lustrous black on matte black, a concept that foreshadowed the ubiquitous codes of the 1990’s. While his first perfume marked the 1980’s, it was through his creation of Féminité du bois and Les Salons du Palais Royal in 1992 with their dreamlike décor, that Serge Lutens led his first true olfactory revolution in the field of perfume. Fragrances such as Ambre sultan, Tubéreuse criminelle, Cuir mauresque… have since become indispensable, writing a new page in the History of Fragrances.

The logical culmination of this came in 2000 when Serge Lutens created the brand that today bears his name and establishes his uncompromising style. Perfumes and makeup (“Nécessaire de beauté”), his expressions in this area, are marketed through specialized and selective distribution and more confidentially at the Palais Royal-Serge Lutens.

His innovations in this field have received many prestigious awards, including several FIFI awards from the Fragrance Foundation. In 2004, at the invitation of “Lille, European Capital of Culture,” he designed an olfactory labyrinth around scents from his childhood: this installation met with great intergenerational success. In 2007 Serge Lutens was awarded the distinction of Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters. Starting in 2010, Serge Lutens established a connection between perfumes and literature and opened up a new path with what he calls an anti-perfume: “L’Eau Serge Lutens.”

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