Bond No 9 introduces Andy Warhol's The Silver Factory to their prestigious fragrance collection.
The Silver Factory—also known simply as the Factory. In operation from 1964–1968, Warhol’s original studio, hangout, and club central, located in a nondescript building on East 47th Street, acquired visual uniqueness with its aluminum-foil walls. These walls evoked silver-backed mirrors—emblems of the narcissism that suffused the times. The Silver Factory served as a galvanizing forum for artists, silkscreeners, actors, filmmakers, debutants, activists, hustlers, and misfits—all of whom somehow contributed to the creativity. It was here that Warhol emerged as an avant garde filmmaker, pop art progenitor, and all-around superstar.
The slender bottle, with a background of textured silver (so fashionable this season), displays a unique graphic inspired by the Campbell’s Soup Can design in bold colors as created by Warhol in a series of his colored Campbell Soup Can silkscreen paintings in 1965: dissonant blocks of turquoise and purple, with the distinctive Campbell’s script in mustard yellow.
Like all the scents-in-progress that we are designing for our Warhol repertory,
this one is of ambiguous male-female gender.
Bond No 9's Silver Factory, a smooth, smoky, spicy blend of interlacing incense (a key scent of the ‘60s), wood resin, and syrupy, seductive amber. But just to complicate things,
a heart of jasmine, iris, and violet—a scent that Warhol was especially fond of. These slightly
dissonant florals combine to evoke a metallic effect— that of warmed-up, molten silver,
and then, for the merest hint of coolness, we threw in a handful of cedarwood.
Love, laughter and friendship
Lisa
Beauty Cafe
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