Launched in 2013, La Fille de Berlin by Serge Lutens is a gorgeous rose scent that I can’t get enough of. 

La Fille de Berlin opens with rose so deep, luscious and fleshy you could fall into it until a metallic tang from pink and black pepper breaks your fall. As it blooms, the rose gets thick, dark and jammy. I smell berries – red currant and blackberries - and violets while that metallic note shimmers lightly in and out of the background. Musk at the base gives it a real animal magnetism that’s just shy of dirty, but bawdy enough to make you keep wanting to smell it.

The drydown is rose, a dark, deep rose, that’s seductively animalic while being refined and polished.

Notes: Rose, violet, pink and black pepper, violet, red currants, blackberries and musk.