It’s almost as if everyone knew I was scaling down the size of my portable fragrances (!), so with some personal favourites packaged into a designed case with flacons that are designed to be refilled., The Cellar Icons Set from Kilian is a real trip and has been perfect for me this month.
The collection includes four fragrances in 7.5ml perfume vials: Straight to Heaven (rich dark rum and addictive vanilla with dried fruit), the iconic Black Phantom (danger and darkness through a beautiful coffee creation filled with cyanide and rum), Intoxicated (rich Turkish coffee laced with green cardamom as well as spicy cinnamon and hallucinogenic nutmeg), and the meditative Gold Knight (bergamot and a warm golden shimmer of vanilla and anise). Obsessed.
The travel set comes in a jet-black lacquered travel spray which we photographed during a recent NEO 10Y shoot and documentary (see above and below). Can’t show much more of the editorial at this stage, but the photo is by Nilik Khimani and the pants are by designer Zhan Kai.
You can see the detail of the engraved Achilles shield motif (I love the geometry, I find it really hypnotising) along the sides – as said by the brand themselves “a veritable cult object of design”. Love love love.
Additional images provided by Kilian.