Beyond Sleeping Beauty
On a night where the fashion industry held its prom down at the Metropolitan Museum with the Met Gala, the lower east side on 242 Mulberry Street in lower Manhattan here in New York was brimming with the launch of Strangelove perfume at Osswald NYC. Attendees for this launch arrived early and over capacity crowd to see Strangelove’s unique and unusual ingredients with oud to create a high quality and sustainable fragrant collection. Sustainable oud are delivered in 2 types combined with heart stopping ingredients such as ambergris, orris butter, gardenia enfleurage, sandalwood, snd Peruvian balsam. Created by Helena Christensen, DANIEL PLUS LAUREN journeyed into this unique world of Strangelove with their 5 perfumes and oils that are “dead of night”, “melt my heart”, “silence the sea”, “lost in flowers”, and “fall into stars”.
For many, the dead of night could be many things, being asleep, insomnia, working nights, partying till 4 a.m., or coming off the 2 ladder aspects mentioned. You find yourself alone with your emotions while nothing else is taking place, and right before the first commuter steps on the A train. The “dead of night” however is inspired by not only late night partying, but a key component apart of late night soirées being seduction, a time to make love, be playful and such, and take a chance on your most romantic desire. Century-prized oud works overtime with damask rose, natural violet leaves, sandalwood, amber, and musk. While it may seem neutral at first blush, these stand-alone ingredients go into overdrive for you to embrace this part of night to take your flirting and playfulness to the next level.
Pheromones and aphrodisiacs, they have one goal in mind, to tap into your romantic senses, turn you on to your sexuality and intimacy. Wherever you can find the sources of these, the simplest and oldest source to a woman’s heart is through chocolate. The “melt my heart” fragrance dives into our love affair with chocolate, combined with spirit boosting fruits to create one purpose, true love. To be exact, ingredients include a perfume delicacy called pure orris butter, bring in oud and sandalwood to join ylang ylang, purified ginger, mandarin, absinthe, sage, and yes, dark chocolate to unite kindred souls beloved by attendees at Osswald NYC.
You may not know it, or even think about it, but the sea in its quiet presence is making a loud impact on earth. But what could be so powerful leading to the deafening of the sea in its tracks? Romance. And love. “silence the sea” not only brings out the true classic perfume scent of playfulness and stopping the room that DANIEL PLUS LAUREN is accustomed to, but its silencing purpose captures profound intimacy of lovers. The base of classic perfume as DPL notices starts with leather, same also happens here with a leathery edge made up of black oud blue chamomile. From there, ingredients such as musk, mimosa, and white truffle produce a hypnotic effect to initiate love.
Now you cannot tell me that you were never in at least one or two moments in your life where new found love left you in a trance. I never fell in love says no one, that’s where “lost in flowers” comes in. The feeling of freshness as DPL experienced it when trying it for the first time, but it’s technically new love, capturing the moment when 2 wanderers finally find each other and search no more. What you will get in these ethereal and profound scents are pure floral essences combined with jasmine, champaca, gardenia enfleurage, saffron, rare oud, nothing short of a love that’s finally connected to another.
Finally, you and your partner arrive at that post declaration of love into an orbit. An orbit where every lovers path is different, and unusual of course, but all paths take you on an incredibly euphoric journey. You can “fall into stars” as your love avoids the dreaded plot of conflicts seen in fantasy and real life, this is love without boundaries. It’s a huge prerequisite for you to love mystically in smoldering passion as jonquil nectar with pure Indian oud, amber, rosewood, and rose-inflected sweetness of pink peppercorn not only answer DPL’s playful and loving senses, but ignite the infinite stars of love.
Not all love is the same, and figures like Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo hit people differently. With that said, Strangelove sets sails for those who encounter love without boundaries, using the stars, the galaxy, and elements of nature to provide sustainable high quality scents made with the richest and most unique ingredients possible. Potion Pendits also play a key role in Strangelove’s quest to tell the story of love so uniquely, beautifully formulated to be your love compass at every stage. For DANIEL PLUS LAUREN, Strangelove must be worn by every woman out there who want love to be curated uniquely, avoiding the conventional restrictions that may take place, inviting their love interest to be drawn to just them.