Lafayette Street Perfume

Details and Care

Bond No. 9 Lafayette Street perfume is a feminine amber-fougere fragrance that came out in 2018. This fragrance has a distinct fruity character, largely owing to the combination of bergamot and apple. Alongside these crisp and refreshing notes are fizzy coriander, vanilla and ambroxan. The amber-forward elements give the product its masculine edge. The inspiration behind this fragrance comes from the street life of New York City, where the brand is from. Lafayette Street is a lively, fascinating part of the city, and this fragrance evokes the mysteriousness and confidence you'll see in people who walk down the boulevard.

Fragrance Family

Amber, fougere

Scent Notes:

Top Notes: bergamot, coriander, fresh flowers

Middle Notes: apple, ambroxan, vanilla

Base Notes: dry wood, tonka bean, grey amber

Questions and Answers

Q: How does Bond No. 9 Lafayette Street perfume smell?

A: Lafayette Street perfume for women smells aromatic, fresh, woody, fruity, amber-forward, green, spicy, nutty and musky. The fragrance opens with a zingy combination of bergamot and coriander along with green and soapy fresh flowers. As the heart notes develop, you'll notice the scent of apple is very prominent, but it finds balance with ambroxan and vanilla. The base notes are dry woods, tonka bean and grey amber. This fragrance has a casual aroma that you can pull off as an office scent or while running around town for meetings.

Q: Where do you apply Lafayette Street perfume?

A: To increase the longevity of the fragrance, spray onto your major pulse points such as behind your ears, at the base of your neck, on the wrists, behind the knees and in the inner elbows.

Q: What is the fragrance concentration?

A: Lafayette Street perfume by Bond No. 9 is an eau de parfum, which is a category of fragrance product with a high concentration of essential perfume oil. The general range of fragrance concentration for this type of product is 10-20%.

Q: Is it for him or her?

A: Though sometimes marketed as a unisex fragrance, Lafayette Street leans feminine because of the ambroxan in the heart notes and the woody, resinous dry down.

Q: Does Lafayette Street perfume last long?

A: This perfume by Bond No. 9 has great longevity and leaves a wide scent trail for many hours. This fragrance will easily last for an entire working day, between seven to nine hours.

Q: What fragrances smell similar?

A: Desire for a Man by Alfred Dunhill, Sculpture Homme by Nikos, or Uden by Xerjoff all have feminine scents very comparable to this one by Bond No. 9.

Q: What season should I wear it?

A: Lafayette Street perfume is a fragrance for women that can easily adapt to every season. With a complex scent profile that is both uplifting and grounding, both fruity and rich in amber and woody aromas, this fragrance will perform well in both warm and cool weather.

Q: Where can I buy it?

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