When you first enter someone’s home, your nose knows before your eyes do just who lives there. Similarly, the first whiff of a fragrance by Ulrich Lang reminds you that you are in the hands of a gentleman.
To wear one of Lang’s fragrances is to enter into the world of a visionary who expands your horizons just enough to enable a new perspective on what you thought you knew before.
Lang’s fourth fragrance, Lightscape, is a riff on the concept of a fresh citrus fragrance – save for the fact that Lang expands the cliché and infuses it with character. The lightness of Sicilian lemon is underscored by a verdant note of galbanum and the earthy warmth of violet leaves.
The result is less a lemon and more a locale. The gardens of Villa La Pietra, for example, which was Harold Acton’s estate outside of Florence and where an allée of lemon trees forms but one part of the whole.
© Ulrich Lang
There’s a sense of place in Lang’s fragrances and the manner in which their structure transports the wearer. Initially launched in 2003 with Anvers (the French word for Antwerp), Lang’s fragrance line includes Anvers 2, Nightscape, Lightscape, and Aperture.
Lang’s passion for art has resulted in elegantly understated packaging that captures the spirit of his fragrances in photography.
For Lightscape, the Amsterdam-based artist, Elspeth Diederix, has created a luminous scene that evokes a dreamy afternoon in mauve, befitting the fragrance’s heart note of violet flower and iris.
Your cheek against the grass, you breathe in ambergris and tonka bean, musk and cashmere wood. A violet near your nose, you gaze into a lightscape that lifts you away.
