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Le Labo is perhaps the perfumer of the last ten years, and now, celebrating their twentieth anniversary, a new coffee table book celebrates their impressive and unparalleled success.
By Amelia McGarvey Photo credits Le Labo
Twenty years of anything is no small feat, but in the beauty and perfumery industry in particular, it is quite a lifetime. Le Labo, celebrating its twentieth anniversary this spring, has decided to launch a coffee table book to celebrate: the resultant book, The Essence of Slow Perfumery, is a commemoration of the brand’s remarkable history, with contributions from its team and community.
Authored by creative director Deborah Royer, The Essence of Slow Perfumery is a healthy five-hundred-page volume of anecdotes, artifacts and essays, all keeping within the perfumery’s signature industrial-chic design. Founded in 2006 on Elizabeth Street, New York, Le Labo has cemented itself as the go-to perfumer for smart, urbane women in Lower Manhattan and beyond, growing from a tiny artisan shop in Nolita to a worldwide success.
It is not easy creating a perfume that is instantly recognisable, less so one that is considered almost the scent of a generation – but Le Labo has. As they enter this new decade, The Essence of Slow Perfumery is a physical manifesto to ground the very illusory realm of scent in the tangible here and now.
Purchase on the Le Labo website, here, from the 1st of April.