FILLE EN AIGUILLES - SERGE LUTENS

Fille en Aiguilles – Serge Lutens

📆 Launch Year: 2009 💧 Concentration: Eau de Parfum 🌲 Olfactive Family: Oriental Woody 👃 Perfumer: Christopher Sheldrake 🧪 GCMS Club Collection – Archives Gilbert Bendoni 📦 Number of Ingredients: 57

A scent of sun and shadow — if summer had a memory, this would be its echo.

Fille en Aiguilles is not a perfume. It’s a mirage. A pine forest scorched by the midday sun, where cicadas chant like golden metronomes. Serge Lutens doesn’t describe — he evokes.

It opens with a dry shimmer: 🌞 lemon oil, black pepper, nutmeg, and camphor — sharp, aromatic, and slightly bitter, like the air above hot stones. Then the pine speaks: isobornyl acetate, alpha pinene, copaiba balsam — resinous, sticky, sacred.

The heart is a forest in motion: 🌲 cedrol, cedarwood, vetynal, and Norlimbanol — dry, mineral, and haunting. Iso E Super and Vertofix stretch the scent like heatwaves. Olibanum and ambroxan rise like incense from cracked earth.

Then comes the hush: musk, ambrettolide, exaltolide — soft, skin-like, and nostalgic. Hedione and ethylene brassylate add a gentle radiance, like light filtering through pine needles. Maltol and vanillin whisper sweetness, but never indulgence.

Fille en Aiguilles is not a girl. She’s a memory. A barefoot walk through needles and sand. A shadow cast by tall trees. A perfume that doesn’t bloom — it burns slowly.

🧍‍♀️ Not floral. Not fruity. Just elemental. A masterclass in olfactory storytelling — dry, resinous, and timelessly poetic.

✅ GC-MS interpreted ✅ High-fidelity formula ✅ A solar woody built for nostalgia, silence, and golden heat