Celine Haute Parfumerie - Zouzou

CELINE HAUTE PARFUMERIE ZOUZOU

ZOUZOU IS THE NEW OPUS IN THE CELINE HAUTE PARFUMERIE COLLECTION INITIATED IN 2019. IT COMES TO JOIN THE ELEVEN PERFUMES CONCEIVED BY HEDI SLIMANE FOR THE LAUNCH OF THE LINE. ALL OF THEM ARE IN KEEPING WITH THE TRADITION OF THE “COUTURIER PARFUMEUR” AND RECAPTURE THE EXCELLENCE OF FRENCH HAUTE PARFUMERIE.

THE COLLECTION IS COMPRISED OF TWELVE CREATIONS TO DATE, WITH ZOUZOU FINDING ITS PLACE IN THE DAY COLLECTION:

FOR THE DAY

- PARADE
- SAINT-GERMAIN-DES-PRÉS
- COLOGNE FRANÇAISE
- DANS PARIS
- LA PEAU NUE
- ZOUZOU
- RIMBAUD
- BOIS DORMANT
- EAU DE CALIFORNIE

FOR THE EVENING

- REPTILE
- BLACK TIE
- NIGHTCLUBBING

A TRIBUTE TO THE SYLPH-LIKE HEROINES OF THE 60S

AS WITH THE OTHER CREATIONS IN THE HAUTE PARFUMERIE COLLECTION, THIS PERFUME TAKES ITS SOURCE FROM HEDI SLIMANE’S OLFACTORY JOURNAL, WHERE THE COUTURIER RECOUNTS THE GENESIS OF THIS NEW OPUS AND ITS NAME. YOUTH HAS BEEN CENTRAL TO HEDI SLIMANE’S WORK, SHAPING THEIR SILHOUETTE FOR DECADES THROUGH HIS PHOTOGRAPHY AND FASHION DESIGNS.

IN JUST ONE PERFUME, ZOUZOU DISTILLS THE IMAGE OF YOUNG WOMEN WITH THE LIVELY AND SYLPH-LIKE ALLURE ILLUSTRATED BY THE 60’S ICONS, CHARACTERS FROM MOVIES OR FROM LITERATURE. FRESH-FACED AND MISCHIEVOUS-LOOKING HEROINES WITH THEIR SHORT HAIRCUT FRAMING DELICATE FEATURES AND A SMILING POUT. HEDI SLIMANE ALSO REVISITS THE NAME OF THIS PROJECT, ZOUZOU. IT SEEMED NATURAL TO HIM TO BAPTIZE IT WITH AN AFFECTIONATE AND CHILD-LIKE NAME, MIXING THE FOND NICKNAME FORMERLY GIVEN TO YOUNG GIRLS WITH SHORT HAIR OR TO LOVED ONES.

A FRAGRANT PORTRAIT OF YOUTH

ZOUZOU BRUSHES THE PORTRAIT OF THESE HEROINES AND THEIR CAREFREE LIGHTHEARTEDNESS. THIS AMBER AND MUSK CREATION AWARDS THE LEAD ROLE TO A BALMY ACCORD WITH CARAMEL OVERTONES. CREATED AROUND BENZOIN AND TONKA BEAN, THE FRAGRANCE IS GIVEN THE MAISON’S INIMITABLY CHIC NEO-CLASSIC TWIST. PATCHOULI AND LABDANUM UNDERLINE THE AMBERY AND ELEGANT CHARACTER OF THE ACCORD WHILE MUSK AND VANILLA PROLONG THE POWDERY NOTES OF THE TRAIL, A MUTED SIGNATURE FEATURED IN ALL CELINE’S CREATIONS. AS THE NOTES UNFOLD, THE SPIRIT OF A PARISIAN TEENAGE GIRL DELICATELY MATERIALIZES.

THE BOTTLE

THE RECTANGULAR BOTTLE DESIGNED BY HEDI SLIMANE FOR CELINE IS IN KEEPING WITH THE GREAT TRADITION OF FRENCH GLASSMAKING. THE COUTURIER WISHED TO GIVE GREATER BODY BY WORKING ON THE LUXURIOUS WEIGHT OF GLASS AND BLACK LACQUER. THE BOTTLE FOR THE CELINE HAUTE PARFUMERIE COLLECTION IS DECORATED ON TWO SIDES WITH SHARP-EDGED FLUTING AND TOPPED WITH A FACETED BLACK LACQUERED CAP. AN AESTHETIC INHERITED FROM LATE 17TH CENTURY CLASSICISM, WHOSE DISTINCTIVE MINIMALISM IMBUES THE BOTTLE WITH THE MODERNITY OF ART DECO: SPARE, TAUT LINES, A TOUCH OF BLACK LACQUER AND TRANSPARENT GLASS WHOSE WORKMANSHIP AND AMBER-GOLD REFLECTIONS HIGHLIGHT THE NUANCES OF EACH PERFUME.

THE BOX IS ADORNED IN PAPER WITH A “GRAIN DE POUDRE” FEEL AND EMBOSSING THAT RECREATES THE EFFECT OF 17TH CENTURY MOLDINGS. THEY ARE INSPIRED BY THE WOODWORK PANELING IN THE HÔTEL COLBERT DE TORCY WHERE THE CELINE ATELIERS ARE HOUSED AT 16, RUE VIVIENNE IN PARIS.

THE MAISON’S EMBLEM, THE “TRIOMPHE” IS ENGRAVED ON THE TOP OF THE CAP. IT WAS CHOSEN BY ITS FOUNDER, CÉLINE VIPIANA WHO, ONE DAY IN 1971, SAW HER SPLIT INITIAL “C” DESIGNED IN THE LINKS CINCHING THE “ARC DE TRIOMPHE”. IT COMES TO COMPLETE THIS BOTTLE’S SENSE OF BELONGING TO THE HISTORY OF THE COUTURE HOUSE.

OLFACTORY JOURNAL

I WISHED TO CREATE A PERFUME ABOUT UTOPIC ADOLESCENCE, CAPTURING AN IDEAL OF ETERNAL YOUTH. THE RECKLESSNESS OF THE YOUNG FRENCH WRITER FRANÇOISE SAGAN, THE INGENU BOYISHNESS OF JEAN SEBERG FILMED BY JEAN LUC GODARD, THE MAGNIFICENT HEROINES OF THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, TOGETHER WITH THE YOUNG WOMEN I WAS ABLE TO PHOTOGRAPH FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS.

I CALLED MY NEW PERFUME FOR CELINE “ZOUZOU”, AN AFFECTIONATE AND CHILD-LIKE NICKNAME THAT APPEARED IN THE LAST CENTURY TO DESCRIBE A YOUNG WOMAN WITH SHORT HAIR.

NOTES

BENZOIN, TONKA BEAN, PATCHOULI, LABDANUM, VANILLINE, MUSK