For its latest perfume assortment, Mercedes-Benz appeared to its roots.
Referred to as Land, Sea and Air, respectively, the three-perfume males’s vary was impressed by the German luxurious model’s personal signature star, which options three factors, every signifying a component — and area — and the model goals to deliver its engines.
Retailing for $115 every, the fragrances can be found direct-to-consumer and at Dillard’s, and can roll out to Belk later this 12 months. Globally, the gathering is predicted to enter greater than 20,000 doorways.
“After we began to work on this challenge, the target was to present a brand new begin to Mercedes-Benz’s perfumes vary in a novel and sudden method,” stated Magalie Chauvin, worldwide advertising director at INCC Parfums, the licensor for Mercedes-Benz fragrances.
“For us, this assortment is an elevated play — it fills a niche for rising [consumer] consciousness about sustainability and perfume,” added Crystal Wooden, chief advertising officer and chief working officer of distribution group The PCA Group of Firms.
To that finish, the gathering marks the primary time Mercedes-Benz fragrances are encased in recycled glass bottles and have aluminum caps; the outer packaging is made from algae-derived biodegradable paper. “Perfume company wish to scent good and really feel good, however additionally they wish to do good,” Wooden stated.
Mercedes-Benz estimates the trio, which was crafted by IFF grasp perfumer and 2023 Perfume Basis Lifetime Achievement Perfumer honoree Anne Flipo, may do 25 million euros in world retail gross sales throughout its first 12 months in the marketplace.
“Our high market is the U.S., then Korea after which Europe, with our accomplice and key retailer in Germany, Douglass,” stated Chauvin, including the model is concentrating on a foray into journey retail in 2025.
The Land perfume options notes of cocoa shell, tonka bean and patchouli, whereas Sea consists of violet leaf, tangerine and seaweed and Air combines armoise oil, citrus notes and turmeric leaf.
“To me, one of many improvements of this trilogy of perfumes is the idea of layering,” stated Flipo. “Simply as the weather complement one another to be as one, the three fragrances had to have the ability to dwell collectively and above all, kind a coherent complete.”