Le Labo Exclusive Fragrances Available Widely for a Limited Amount of Time

The 3rd edition of the Le Labo City Exclusive event will start September 1st. If you have even passingly heard about Le Labo you know they're quirky: they dilute, decant and personally label the fragrances for you on the spot in their boutiques and they have a range of "city-exclusives" that are available ONLY in the selected cities (and come $$$ too!). Annoying, I know! (Especially since I love at least two of them). But for a limited time from September 2013 they're offering those city exclusives to all of us aficionados, to give us a chance of owning them at last.

The City Exclusive scents have been created as a tribute to the cities Le Labo has shops in. These scents are usually only available in the boutique of the city it belongs to: no phone order, no online order, no shipping, no exceptions!

For 6 weeks and 6 weeks only, the 8 city-apointed Le Labo perfumes will be sold in exclusivity in all of the Le Labo boutiques, online (http://storeinternational.lelabofragrances.com/) and in a limited selection of corners across the globe (Barneys stores). To get ready for the big day the samples of the City Exclusive perfumes will be available starting tomorrow!

Le Labo Limette 37 City-Exclusive: new fragrance

Don't expect Le Labo's San Francisco exclusive to be a chilly summer fog essence or the Golden Gate in a bottle. Le Labo is hot on the heels of the launch of two new fragrances, Lys 41 and Ylang 49, part of the classic le Labo collection, with another city-exclusive to substitute for the loss of Aldehyde 44 for Dallas, due to discontinuation, (see a review of Aldehyde 44 here), after the closing down of the Barneys boutique distribution there.

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According to the official blurb by the company: "Limette 37's reference to San Francisco is abstract and delves into its olfactive construction that mimics the hilly ride from Le Labo's Fillmore street store to the bay. You start off with a view, with bergamote's freshness and light, before plunging into the warm and welcoming effects of jasmine, petit grain and clove that roll into luscious softness with vetiver, tonka beans and musks... Limette 37 is an olfactive roller coaster, mingling an impression of cleanliness, freshness and well-being with that definite feeling that you are smelling special. In a good way of course."

We'll see, I suppose. Given that many of the city exclusives are true gems (Gaiac 10, Poivre 23, Baie Rose 26 or Vanille 40), perhaps the predictable ring of the given notes will amount to more than the sum of the parts.

*This is a repost from the post of 14th May, removed since, at the request of the company.