{"id":178103,"date":"2019-09-06T14:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T18:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/?p=178103"},"modified":"2019-09-06T14:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T18:42:23","slug":"regime-des-fleurs-chloe-sevigny-little-flower-fragrance-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/2019\/09\/06\/regime-des-fleurs-chloe-sevigny-little-flower-fragrance-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Regime des Fleurs Chloe Sevigny Little Flower ~ fragrance review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A collaboration with film and\u00a0<\/span>fashion icon Chlo\u00eb Sevigny,\u00a0Little Flower\u00a0is R\u00e9gime des Fleurs<\/a>\u2019\u00a0provocative\u00a0take on Sevigny\u2019s favorite bloom \u2014 the rose. . . .\u00a0Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux, a late 19th century French nun who died at the age of 24, was referred to as ‘The Little Flower’ and became the Catholic patron saint of flowers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well, if you were trying to come up with a fragrance that would sound irresistible to me, you couldn’t do much better than that. I’m a life-long lover<\/a> of rose perfumes and a former Catholic schoolgirl still deeply influenced by my religion’s iconography.\u00a0I’ve also been following Chlo\u00eb Sevigny’s work (and style) ever since her\u00a01994 profile in The New Yorker<\/a>, so I already know that she’s a serious perfume fan who used to wear Comme des Gar\u00e7ons Rose. (Her scent-heritage also includes the Tea Rose<\/a> she wore in elementary school and Benetton Colors after that; memories of her mother’s Lanvin Arp\u00e8ge<\/a> and Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche; and the encouragement of a perfume-collecting aunt.)<\/p>\n

Sevigny consulted with R\u00e9gime des Fleurs while Little Flower was being developed by perfumer J\u00e9r\u00f4me Epinette<\/a>, and the result is a composition that includes notes\u00a0of black tea, pomelo, blackcurrant bud, bleeding heart, peony, rose, honeysuckle and palo santo incense. (The surrealistic promotional images are the work of fashion photographers Inez & Vinoodh.)<\/p>\n

Little Flower is definitely a rose perfume \u2014 specifically, a newly bloomed rose crowned with tart blackcurrant and sharp green leaves. It opens with the quickest hit of citrus and a smooth note of black tea that gives the composition a contemporary and androgynous feel, and then things definitely turn more flower-based. Little Flower’s rosa damascena<\/em> accord holds its own amongst the green and fruity notes, smelling fresh and “natural” while adding a dose of floral romance. The sheer incense and woods of the base are very tightly meshed with the rose and blackcurrant, supporting the fragrance’s main theme rather than overtaking it.<\/p>\n

After the first half-hour or so, Little Flower feels linear (but still well-balanced) and stays close to its wearer. It has average staying power; it lasts through most of a work-day on my skin. And it’s turning out to be an addictive scent for me, so I’ve already decanted some fragrance from my bottle into a little roll-on that I can use to “refresh” before heading out for the evening.<\/p>\n

Little Flower is smart and well-composed, and it does feel like a perfect accessory for Chlo\u00eb Sevigny, whose downtown edge has always been balanced by her (acknowledged) suburban-preppy background and her appreciation for classic glamour. After all, she says she started collecting perfume bottles as a child because she was “obsessed with their design \u2014 the lady-ness of them.”1\u00a0<\/sup>For the full experience of Little Flower, I recommend listening to the “sonic poem” that Chlo\u00eb Sevigny recorded for R\u00e9gime de Fleurs in 2016; you can find it here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you’re a fan of\u00a0Diptyque L’Ombre dans L’Eau<\/a>,\u00a0Les Parfums de Rosine Roseberry or\u00a0Herm\u00e8s Amazone Rose<\/a>, you may appreciate Little Flower as a refined take on the blackcurrant-and-rose pairing. If you enjoy rose-and-tea blends like Vivienne Westwood Anglomania (discontinued, alas) or CB I Hate Perfume Tea\/Rose and you’re looking for something more flowery, or if you liked the cassis top note of\u00a0Miu Miu Eau Ros\u00e9e<\/a> but would have preferred more rose, Little Flower might be calling your name.<\/p>\n

A final comment: media coverage of Little Flower reassures us that this fragrance with a “granny-approved” rose theme is “a rose perfume you’ll actually want to wear” due to its “cool girl spin.”2\u00a0<\/sup>Will the (inaccurate) perception of rose as something fusty and dusty ever be put to rest? I thought we’d crossed that bridge with Stella<\/a> in 2003; apparently not. Let’s see whether Chlo\u00eb can change a few minds. As for me, I’ve always been on her rose-loving team.<\/p>\n

R\u00e9gime des Fleurs Chlo\u00eb Sevigny Little Flower is available as 100\u00a0ml Eau de Parfum ($205) via the R\u00e9gime des Fleurs website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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1. “Chloe Sevigny Says Her New Perfume Is About Being a Lady, Not an ‘It Girl.’”\u00a0Los Angeles Magazine<\/a>, August 23, 2019.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a010 Magazine<\/a>, <\/em>August 30, 2019; The New York Times<\/a>, <\/em>August 21, 2019; Refinery 29<\/a>, August 21, 2019.<\/p>\n

Possibly of interest<\/h2>\n
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Regime des Fleurs + Arielle Shoshana Arielle’s Garden ~ new fragrance<\/a><\/div>
Regime des Fleurs Saffron Fever ~ new fragrance<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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A collaboration with film and <\/span>fashion icon Chlo\u00eb Sevigny, Little Flower is R\u00e9gime des Fleurs<\/a>\u2019 provocative take on Sevigny\u2019s favorite bloom \u2014 the rose. . . . Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux, a late 19th century French nun who died at the age of 24, was referred to as ‘The Little Flower’ and became the Catholic patron saint of flowers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well, if you were trying to come up with a fragrance that would sound irresistible to me, you couldn’t do much better than that. I’m a life-long lover<\/a> of rose perfumes and a former Catholic schoolgirl still deeply influenced by my religion’s iconography. I’ve also been following Chlo\u00eb Sevigny’s work (and style) ever since her 1994 profile in The New Yorker<\/a>, so I already know that she’s a serious perfume fan who used to wear Comme des Gar\u00e7ons Rose…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,2929,754,2478,37],"class_list":{"0":"post-178103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-perfume-talk","7":"tag-celebrity-perfumes","8":"tag-chloe-sevigny","9":"tag-jerome-epinette","10":"tag-regime-des-fleurs","11":"tag-rose","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}