La-Bàs

DISCONTINUED BY REGIME DES FLEURS. GET ONE OF THE LAST BOTTLES NOW BEFORE THEY'RE GONE. From Regime des FleursA heart between two places, a haunting lust for somewhere else. Dark, sophisticated, layered fruit and smoke elements. From Alia Raza“Imagine if The 6th Arrondissement’s Saint Sulpice church were transported to Upper East Side.” That’s how Christopher and I began musing. The question was sparked by his own personal story; we were both living in New York at the time, but his heart longed for his home in Paris. La Bas is a feeling: the haunting sense that wherever you are, you wish to be somewhere else. Not here; over there. From VOGUE“Armed with an arsenal of rich references—ranging from the wood-paneled walls of gentlemen’s clubs and the Place Vendôme shirtmaker Charvet to mink-lined jackets and the earthy contralto of Etta James—Raza enlisted the perfumer Dominique Ropion, whom she refers to as “the Martin Scorsese of fragrance,” to mastermind a dry and spicy eau, which he top