Bond no. 9 has launched Tuxedo Park, a new fragrance.
A Legend in the Making. Just in time for Earth Day, discover a luminous green escape that is refined and quietly glamorous, inspired by a Gatsby-esque village where elegance meets untamed woodland air and true luxury is found in nature.
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Nestled in the Ramapo Mountains just north of Manhattan, Tuxedo Park is one of New York's most storied enclaves - the first planned residential community where Gilded Age ambition meets pastoral retreat.
...the village was conceived as a private, gated haven for New York's elite, blending European aristocratic ideals with distinctly American grandeur and classical, opulent architecture. Its rolling hills, pristine lakes, and winding carriage paths were carefully constructed and preserved as a living landscape of leisure.
"We didn't just choose any park," says Bond No. 9 Founder Laurice Rahme. "Tuxedo Park is the embodiment of quiet, outdoor chic and has an incredible New York heritage."
The notes include yuzu, grapefruit, orange bigarade, tangerine, persian lime, petitgrain, pink pepper, jasmine, tuberose, cristalfizz, oud, saffiano, musks and ambroxan.
Bond no. 9 Tuxedo Park is available in 100 ml, $470.
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Nice colored bottle but the notes – meh …
Probably not for me either, although not likely I’ll ever know.
Do people really spend one half K on a bottle of perfume? Especially these days? 🫣 I would be interested in tracking how many are manufactured and how many actually are sold over the next year…
I think there is more growth — not necessarily higher sales — at the top of the market, and I do firmly believe there is a segment of the population that is just not interested in sub-$300 perfumery. Bond in particular lost its perfumista following ages ago but seems to do just fine without it.
Oud and ambroxan? Not for me.
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So, basically an ode to wretched excess… Nice timing.
I am waiting for Bond no. 9 Yonkers, or Bond no. 9 Jersey City (although actually, both of those places are now reasonably young and hip so I need to rethink).
HA. Bond no. 9 Bushwick
🤣🤣🤣 Too funny!
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I note cristalfizz as a note. That’s in my Courreges L’Eau de Liesse. I went looking on Fragrantica for others with this note, and discovered they misspelled it as crystalfizz. This Bond is the only one showing. The note finder doesn’t recognize the proper spelling. Cristalfizz is an IFF captive molecule. I researched and found the following:
New fragrance trends can be tricky to forecast, but a huge clue is the secret ingredients known as ‘captives’ or ‘captive molecules’.
These pioneering, sustainable captive molecules are aromas exclusively designed by fragrance creation companies, which perfumers clamour for because they cannot be used (and therefore copied) by anyone else. More than that, these unique blends bring brand new smells into the perfumer’s palate, which cannot be captured in nature, or perhaps do not even exist in nature. It’s quite mind-blowing when you think of it – the equivalent of a painter being presented with a new set of colours that nobody had ever seen before, or a musician being offered some notes that had never previously been heard.
Cristalfizz
‘It’s citrus fizzy, with orange and mandarin zest. A watery feel, crystal fresh and ozonic. It’s aldehydic and unique.’
Since many (really, most) brands don’t list notes by trademarked names, it’s probably in tons of fragrances that you don’t know about, probably just listed as “orange” or “mandarin”.
That’s intriguing. Why ?
Are you asking why they don’t list the trademarked aromachemical names?
If so, there are a few that have become well known and might be selling points, but by and large most people don’t want to see a list of chemicals, they want to see a list of what they think of as the natural raw materials traditionally used in fragrance.
So you are more likely to see “jasmine” than jessamol or jasmatone or whatever.
The idea that perfumers “clamor” for captives strikes me as a bit misleading. The vast majority of perfumers work for the fragrance and flavor companies who make the aromachemicals to begin with, and they might have something new that nobody else has, but the idea that “they cannot be used (and therefore copied) by anyone else” is also pretty misleading.
IFF might have cristalfizz but that is far from the only chemical that can create a fizzy citrus soda effect.
This terribly old article might or might not help:
https://nstperfume.com/2008/03/14/perfumista-tip-on-lists-of-fragrance-notes-why-they-matter-why-they-dont/
Robin, what a superb, extensive article! The research! The endless typing of chemical names! It is a tour de force of perfume knowledge! . I learned so much. The JCE anecdote about reformulating lavender was 🤯. Thank you for writing me such a substantial explanation. It was a gift of your valuable time and expertise. You are a Rock Star of Scent!