Christian Louboutin parfums

I'd love to see the brief the Christian Louboutin creative team presented to the perfumers, because their collaborative and, I'm sure, extensive work resulted in a strong, commercially balanced line of fragrances that brilliantly explores virtually all the most popular fashion themes. They explore them with ease and irony.

Loubikiss Christian Louboutin is one of those girlish fragrances that shines like Alicia Silverstone's smile. A highlighter and palette in peach tones, a refreshing post-beach body lotion, and pills in a snow-white sugar glaze, tuberose, and a white magnolia with large, leathery leaves. Pure California!

Loubikiss Christian Louboutin,

Daphne Bugey,

Jasmine, tuberose, musk

Loubifunk Christian Louboutin has a silver pineapple cap, and the bottle contains magical bubbles, lychee juice, fresh raspberries, and melted currant ice cream with coconut milk. Plus, a touch of YSL's In Love Again, with its carefree early 2000s vibe. Loubifunk is exaggeratedly twitchy, like a TikTok dance, but just as catchy. You don't even notice how you start breathing and moving to the rhythm.

Loubifunk Christian Louboutin,

Nicolas Beaulieu,

Blackcurrant, Turkish rose, patchouli

How delightful Loubidoo Christian Louboutin is! For me, it's a variation on Fleur Narcotique, but here the popular hit is devoid of its specific pungency. Loubidoo is fresh, smiling, all in white and in shining mithril chainmail. He carefully picks at fresh wild strawberries to prevent them from releasing their juice prematurely.

Loubidoo Christian Louboutin,

Daphné Bugey,

Strawberry, rose, cedar.

Lubicrown Christian Louboutin is very French, with its familiar dusty luxury of patchouli, green velvet, and an old lacquered box where, over the years of neglect, some old Weil perfume has evaporated almost to the bottom and permeated everything.

The Lubicrown blotter is fun to twirl around your nose—it conjures up images of The Great Gatsby, but I can hardly imagine where you could wear this vintage beauty now.

Loubicrown Christian Louboutin,

Christophe Raynaud,

Patchouli, cedar, tonka bean

Loubirouge Christian Louboutin is a fashionable and healthy take on Christmas cake for the spiritually minded. The bottle contains smoking incense and sweet carrot cake with white chocolate, candied orange, and a traditional gingerbread spice blend: ground cloves, cinnamon, and cardamom. The bottle is crowned with a cap that, for some reason, depicts not a yogi in a bizarre asana, but Louboutin's famous stiletto heel on a globe. Why?

Loubirouge Christian Louboutin,

Marie Salamagne,

Cardamom, iris, vanilla

In Loubirouge Christian Louboutin, everything is clear—a turban on the bottle, oriental bliss inside. The designer particularly nailed the sweet flashes of strawberry rose, the juice of ripe cherry plum, and white grapes. For an oriental flavor, there could have been a sack of spices here, but they limited themselves to saffron with its metallic chill, and a finish of rough red leather. Elegant, uncluttered, and very comfortable. Even though it is a rajah.

Loubiraj Christian Louboutin,

Daphne Bugey,

Suede, pink pepper, cedar

Loubicroc Christian Louboutin is the eerily familiar and oh-so-desirable scent of an airport. The air is slightly electric, people crawling like ants with their well-worn canvas bags or elegant leather suitcases. A latte for the road, a boarding pass tucked into your passport, the sky ahead.

Loubicroc Christian Louboutin,

Daphne Bugey,

Myrrh, cypriol, sandalwood

The collection is a success. Loubi-kitsch, Loubi-contemporary art, Loubi-irony, Loubi-perfume for people who don't take themselves and their choices with the same seriousness. I'd happily douse myself in everything here except, perhaps, Loubirouge and Loubikiss, but that's because the sunny, gingerbread theme is getting a bit tired.

The collection's plus: the sight of Christian Louboutin's red lacquer bottles with silver caps makes every magpie's heart beat faster. Another big plus is the generous samples. The minus is the website, which is a bit awkward, but the brand does have a fun Instagram account. Check out the videos; they're well-made and completely unpretentious.