The new Les Parfums Louis Vuitton collection is a fragrance journey "dedicated to men" but we're inviting ourselves along

Compared to other fashion houses,<a href="https://eu.louisvuitton.com/eng-e1/men/fragrances/collection/_/N-1n95vlj"> Louis Vuitton</a> is&nbsp;relatively new to the fragrance game. At least it would seem that way to most, since the brand only launched its first major collection of perfumes&nbsp;&mdash; <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/beauty/les-parfums-louis-vuitton-luxury-in-a-bottle">Les Parfums Louis Vuitton</a> &mdash; two years ago.

Louis Vuitton did&nbsp;create&nbsp;fragrances before 2016, but the last one&nbsp;was released almost 90 years ago and none of them are known to exist anymore. A pity, but the seven largely floral&nbsp;women&#39;s fragrances created by master perfumer Jacques Cavallier Belletrud have more than made up for it since then.&nbsp;

And now, Louis Vuitton is upping the ante with&nbsp;five more beautiful fragrances also by&nbsp;Jacques Cavallier Belletrud in its first ever perfume collection for&nbsp;men.

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Packaging-wise, the new juices&nbsp;are housed in the same clean and chic&nbsp;glass bottles as the women&#39;s perfumes, but with one difference so&nbsp;subtle you might miss it.&nbsp;On the&nbsp;cap of each men&#39;s perfume bottle, the LV logo is engraved in cold galvanised silver metal &mdash; as opposed to the gilded brass stamp on the ladies&#39; scents.&nbsp;

As for the&nbsp;fragrances, they are very much in line with Louis Vuitton&#39;s spirit of travel and&nbsp;all pay homage to the adventurer. But each scent is distinctly different from the next, so there&#39;s really something for every man (or woman).&nbsp;

See&nbsp;what we thought about all&nbsp;five fragrances in the Les Parfums Louis Vuitton collection for men&nbsp;below.

L&#39;Immensit&eacute;

L'Immensité

When we visited a&nbsp;Louis Vuitton boutique on the day the&nbsp;collection launched, this was one of the two more popular scents that the first few&nbsp;customers were buying. And it comes as no suprise, because&nbsp;L&#39;Immensit&eacute;&nbsp;is the most classically sporty, masculine fragrance of the lot.

We like that it&#39;s not overpowering like some sports&nbsp;fragrances tend to be.&nbsp;It has a freshness to it thanks to the&nbsp;ginger notes and contains&nbsp;bright, bitter&nbsp;grapefruit that&#39;s&nbsp;softened by an addictive and sensual amber note.&nbsp;

Nouveau Monde

The idea for Nouveau Monde came to&nbsp;Jacques Cavallier Belletrud one evening&nbsp;in Guatemela as he sipped on&nbsp;Mayan chocolate, a milk-free mixture of cocoa, spice, water&nbsp;and honey.&nbsp;

His interpretation of&nbsp;these flavours translate into a composition constructed around&nbsp;a natural cocoa resinoid&nbsp;produced on the Ivory Coast and transformed in Grasse.&nbsp;The&nbsp;raw cocoa beans are&nbsp;combined&nbsp;with an extremely rare&nbsp;oud assam from a small family-run&nbsp;farm in Bangladesh, as well as saffron.&nbsp;

While the recognisable&nbsp;oud definitely hits the nose first, the cocoa rounds it out with&nbsp;a soft sweetness and warmth. When we tested it&nbsp;on our&nbsp;skin, Nouveau Monde&nbsp;was also the most long-wearing scent out of the five in the collection.&nbsp;

Orage

Inspired by stormy skies, taking a whiff of&nbsp;Orage is&nbsp;like getting a deep&nbsp;breath of mountain&nbsp;air. It&#39;s cool&nbsp;and sharp, but also&nbsp;woody. More than just a&nbsp;scent, it&#39;s a feeling&nbsp;and it&#39;s&nbsp;almost addictive.&nbsp;

At the heart of Orage, the intensity of patchouli meets the elegance of&nbsp;iris. As the scent settles into the skin, the earthy, slightly sweet vetiver notes start to come through. It&#39;s a wonderfully crafted fragrance and one of our favourites. It is&nbsp;also one of the two&nbsp;customer favourites so far&nbsp;next to L&#39;Immensit&eacute;, especially among the ladies.&nbsp;

Sur La Route

Citrus fragrance lovers will adore Sur La Route. It&#39;s zesty and optimistic, with the freshness of an aftershave only&nbsp;much&nbsp;sexier.&nbsp;

Jacques Cavallier&nbsp;Belletrud blended two types of&nbsp;citrus:&nbsp;c&eacute;drat and bergamot, to which he added freshly cut grass for a raw, green accent. Delicate floral notes from&nbsp;Peruvian balsam and spicy pink peppercorn add complexity to the perfume which wears as a great day to night fragrance.&nbsp;

Au Hasard

We have a thing for mysterious fragrances with notes&nbsp;we can&#39;t quite put a finger on and Au Hasard is just that.&nbsp;

Louis Vuitton calls it a &quot;olfactory UFO&quot;,&nbsp;a scent that&#39;s disarming,&nbsp;disconcerting and difficult to discern &mdash; all&nbsp;adjectives&nbsp;that coincidentally also&nbsp;describe&nbsp;the kind of men we like. So rather expectedly,&nbsp;this is our top pick from the collection.

The&nbsp;perfume is based on creamy, milky sandalwood from Sri Lanka, mixed with ambrette seed that&nbsp;first evokes pear liquer and then a cottony musk. Cardamom shakes&nbsp;the fruity, woody notes up with a little spice. When worn on the skin, the scent is completely captivating in the way that leaves you wanting more.&nbsp;

The&nbsp;Les Parfums&nbsp;Louis&nbsp;Vuitton&nbsp;collection for men is available now in all&nbsp;Louis&nbsp;Vuitton&nbsp;Singapore stores, with prices starting&nbsp;from $370 for a 100ml bottle.&nbsp;

Review: Les Parfums Louis Vuitton Men's Collection

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