PHOTO - KARL LAGERFELD

🖤 Photo – Karl Lagerfeld 📆 Launch Year: 1990 💧 Concentration: Eau de Toilette 🌿 Olfactive Family: Oriental Spicy 📂 Preserved via the Gilbert Bendoni Private Collection 📦 Number of Ingredients: 50

Photo is not just a fragrance — it’s a snapshot of 90s masculinity, captured in aldehydes, woods, and synthetic light. Released in 1990, this scent reflects Lagerfeld’s fascination with minimalism, contrast, and image. It’s a perfume that wears like a black-and-white portrait: sharp, composed, and emotionally cool.

🧬 Formula Highlights

• Top: Bergamot, lemon, mandarin, galbanum, petitgrain, aldehydes (C11, C12 MNA)
• Heart: Lavandin, geranium, rosemary, orange oil, allyl amyl glycolate, epicene gamma
• Base: Sandalwood base, patchouli, guaiacwood, vertofix, ambroxan, Iso E Super, galaxolide, fixolide
• Accents: Coumarin, vanillin, civet, tarragon, methyl anthranilate, rose oxide

🎩 The Signature

Photo is a powerhouse in restraint — not loud, but persistent. It’s a scent that projects clarity, with a structure that balances synthetic precision and aromatic nostalgia. The use of Epicene Gamma, Boisambrène Forte, and Veloutone gives it a clean, musky backbone that feels unmistakably 90s.

This version, preserved in the Gilbert Bendoni Private Collection, offers a rare look at the original formulation — before reformulations softened its edges.

ALDEHYDES. WOODS. IMAGE. This is Photo — and it doesn’t smile. It poses. 🖤📷🧪🪞