Claudia Mauriño.
Loewe Perfumes is giving perfume the full art-object treatment again, but this time there are five new bottles to add to the cabinet. Following the launch of its Crafted Collection last autumn, the Spanish house is expanding its most luxurious fragrance line with ‘Field Diary’, ‘Sweet Woodland’, ‘Rosetopia’, ‘Smoky Rain’ and ‘Verdant Grove’, five scents that take familiar ingredients somewhere considerably more intriguing.
The launch showcases a material dialogue lensed by photographer Claudia Mauriño inside the legendary Silicon House, an avant-garde plastic and plexiglass structure designed by architects SelgasCano. Each heavy, handblown glass flacon acts as a sculptural object within the light-flooded rooms, capped with naturally textured granite blocks that ensure no two bottles look identical.
The original Crafted Collection was built around the idea of perfumery as an artisanal practice, with each fragrance presented in sculptural bottles inspired by hand-blown glass and finished with granite caps. The new additions continue that approach, treating scent as something that belongs as much on a dressing table as it does on the skin.
Claudia Mauriño.
Claudia Mauriño.
The lineup introduces ‘Field Diary’, a bright, citrusy blend of green mandarin, blood orange, and lychee supported by orange blossom and creamy sandalwood, running parallel to the warmer ‘Sweet Woodland’, which spikes mandarin and rose with rich cognac and dark patchouli. Florals receive a completely contemporary rewrite in ‘Rosetopia’, a scent that wraps Damascena rose and pink pepper in a crisp grapefruit and peony envelope. For darker preferences, ‘Smoky Rain’ coordinates intense incense, white musk, and bergamot, while ‘Verdant Grove’ serves as a creamy gourmand choice, folding pistachio, powdery iris, and warm cedar-wood into a rich caramel base.
Loewe has also extended the collection beyond fragrance with a pistachio candle, alongside ‘Tomato Leaves’ body scrub and hand cream, creating a wider sensory world around some of the house’s favourite botanical references.
Claudia Mauriño.
Claudia Mauriño.
The house’s original Crafted fragrances were developed around unusually focused ingredients such as iris, vanilla and oud, with perfumer Nuria Cruelles using unexpected contrasts to pull familiar materials into new territory.
The new Crafted Collection fragrances are available now online. Find out more here.
photography. courtesy of Claudia Mauriño for Loewe Perfumes
words. Gennaro Costanzo
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