Based in 1888, French luxurious model Lalique’s crystal manufacturing unit in Wingen-sur-Moder, Alsace, celebrates its centenary this 12 months.
To mark this milestone, the corporate has produced a limited-edition fragrance in a really particular bottle. With solely 10 created, signed, and numbered, it is a uncommon and collectable present.
The manufacturing course of for this extraordinary bottle started within the hot-glass workshop, and concerned seven folks, the biggest workforce ever to work on a single Lalique piece.
One notably difficult side was the exact coordination essential between the artisans, because the bottle is made up of two elements: the amber crystal flacon itself and a mailloche (the device used to form molten glass) in clear crystal that it rests on.
The bottle additionally contains a fern motif, a plant favored by founder René Lalique in his designs, and a reference to the manufacture of crystal. Distilled fern ashes are used to acquire potash, which is important to glassmakers as it’s used to decrease the melting temperature of the crystal, and in addition to offer density and brilliance to the end.
In the meantime, the fragrance options notes of woody iris, white musk, and orange blossom.