Launched in 2010, Vamp à NY is part of the "New York Collection" from French niche fragrance house Honoré des Prés. All fragrances in the Honoré des Prés line are all natural – made from essences that are 100% natural in origin. There are no petrochemical products or synthetics or ingredients of animal origin colouring agents or phthalates.

Built around tuberose, a flower long associated with death and desire, it’s the perfect poster plant for vampire couture, and the name Vamp à NY plays on that.

Vamp à NY opens with a hit of boozy rum that links to the coconut facet of tuberose and sets a tropical stage for the buttery, creamy, lush, floral, sexy tuberose to seep into my skin. And as it does, it reveals itself. There’s the smell of buttered popcorn, a glint of fresh green and a floral sweetness that just draws me in. Creamy, sweet vanilla twins with the tuberose while adding warmth to it. The tuberose/vanilla axis pulsates with sensuality. Over time, the tuberose settles onto a resinous base of ambery benzoin and vanilla/spicy faceted Tolu balsam and Peru balsam, creating a sweet/warm shadow that dances just above the skin.

Olivia Giacobetti excels at creating ethereal veils of fragrances. In Vamp à NY, she takes rich, luscious, sensuous tuberose and opens it up, allowing in space and air, then pulls back on the resins, giving Vamp à NY a weightless, free-spirited quality that’s hypnotic, irresistible, and addictive.

Notes: Rum, coconut, tuberose, vanilla, benzoin, Tolu balsam and Peru balsam.