ÇaFleureBon X DSH Perfumes Disco Queen 30 ml bottle
Yo! Pump up the jam
Pump it up
While your feet are stomping
And the jam is pumping
Look ahead, the crowd is jumpin’
Pump it up a little more
Get the party goin’ on the dance floor – Technetronic, 1990
Dawn winning A&O award for Colorado for American Perfumer L) and Michelyn holding the fragrance at Esxence 2019 (photo by Jeffrey Paul)
Perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz and ÇaFleureBon Editor-in-Chief Michelyn Camen have collaborated on numerous artistic projects over the years – Reveries de Paris in 2015 (inspired by Michelyn’s recollection of Paris as an art student), Project Talisman’s Become the Shaman (2017), Drama Queen (2021, for ÇaFleureBon’s 11th anniversary), Warrior Queen (our 12th anniversary) amongst them. This year ÇaFleureBon celebrated its 13th year (Michelyn’s lucky number), and Michelyn and Dawn wanted to evoke a more carefree era while maintaining a current relevance: Disco Queen. Both women spritzed themselves lavishly with Paco Rabanne’s Calandre at that time – and it relates the narrative of Michelyn’s “first years after moving to Manhattan as a young executive by day and a dancing queen by night.” After the 9-to-5 stressful corporate day, a brief “disco nap” was all that was required before venturing out into the night to the toniest clubs – to dance into the wee hours at such discos as New York City’s Area and Limelight while sipping Bellinis. Michelyn lived up to the perfume’s name… she won a dance contest at the Limelight.
“ÇaFleureBon X DSH Perfumes Disco Queen has had a prescient quality about it since Michelyn and I began working on it together last year. We both have a personal relationship with Calandre (created by Michael Hy) and wanted to reference the gorgeous metallic and glass tones evoked by this perfume in Disco Queen. And with the passing of Paco Rabanne earlier this year, it felt all the more right.” ~ Dawn Spencer Hurwitz
Unsplash Antoine J club scene
Under the shimmering disco ball, the club is a-buzz with palpable energy: laughter, drinking, smoking, shameless flirtation and dancing until either your breath or feet give out – whichever comes first. Some clubs are so packed that it resembles a zombie jamboree (back to back, and belly to belly), but that deters no one. You’ll dance with anyone who crosses your path with equal enthusiasm under the throbbing rhythm of a disco beat and the dizzying reflections from that dazzling orb above. Working up a powerful thirst, you blithely slake it with as many peach-infused champagne Bellinis as it takes – and it can take any number, judging by your incessant pace. You may even decide to jump from club to club in an unofficial upscale pub crawl (although it’s actually more like a sprint, as you want to live every passing moment ardently ablaze).
Unsplash Fidel Fernando disco balls
ÇaFleureBon X DSH Perfumes Disco Queen opens with a blindingly brilliant flash of aldehydes: they smell crystalline and metallic, with a silvery sheen – shiny, shiny bright. The acute nature of bergamot only serves to reinforce this impression. Dawn has composed a Bellini accord which is peach-fizzy, playful, and refreshing – followed by the floral bonhomie of Bulgarian rose and rose geranium (both floral and herbal), hyacinth, muguet, and indolic jasmine grandiflorum. Disco Queen is primarily an aldehydic fruity floral chypre; its base boasts sandalwood, vetiver and oakmoss – gentled with musk, benzoin Siam, and wisps of cedar and amber – but never to the point of weighing down the other aromatic components. While it is a diffusive, airborne fragrance, Disco Queen has impressive tenacity and significant sillage, which is perfectly in keeping with the big hair, padded shoulders, and bold fragrances for which the late 80s were renowned. It bears a degree of comparison with the legendary Calandre which inspired it – but Dawn and Michelyn’s collaboration is its own creature as well. To quote the perfumer: “As Spring opens its doors to the world again, Disco Queen comes in beaming with shimmering beauty and sweet delight; a perfect celebration!” A timely description for a modern scent with vintage sensibilities.
Notes: aldehydes, bergamot, Bellini accord, hyacinth, muguet, Bulgarian rose absolute, Egyptian rose geranium, grandiflorum jasmine, Virginia cedar, Australian sandalwood, Siam benzoin, amber, Brazilian vetiver, green oakmoss, musk
Sample provided by the perfumer – many thanks! My nose is my own…
~ Ida Meister, Deputy and Natural Perfumery Editor
ÇaFleureBon X DSH Perfumes Disco Queen courtesy of Dawn
Thanks to the generosity of perfumer Dawn Spencer-Hurwitz, we are celebrating our recent 13th anniversary with a draw for 30 ml flacon of EDP of ÇaFleureBon X DSH Perfumes Disco Queen to one registered reader, (you must register here) in the CONUS. To be eligible, please leave a comment regarding what appeals to you about ÇaFleureBon X DSH Perfumes Disco Queen, if you went to discos and Ida’s review. Giveaway closes 4/29/2023
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