A self-possessed perfume for a person who doesn’t need anything, but craves everything. This is excess with control, 70s-era Bianca Jagger wearing Halston, lighting up the Studio 54 dance floor. Carine is a fiercely chic patchouli with an ample gardenia and jasmine cleavage, trussed in a corset of vetiver. Sighs of rose and amber sail through the trail of this Dominique Ropion composition. Confident, elegant, insolent.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is the scent of a room where the music is loud but the posture is calm: a sharp, composed presence that turns heads without asking for them. It suits close quarters, evening light and a wearer who prefers a strong signature to a decorative flourish.
How to wear
Best worn in cooler weather or at night, when its amber, jasmine and patchouli can unfold without losing shape. One or two sprays are enough; it projects with confidence and leaves a substantial trail, so it works best applied lightly to pulse points or clothing.
Who it’s for
For those who like floral perfumes with backbone: patchouli, amber and spice over sweetness, with a vintage, slightly decadent feel. It will appeal to wearers who want something chic, assertive and genderless, with a strong personality and a polished old-school edge.
Release year
2022
The nose
Dominique Ropion is one of contemporary perfumery’s great architects of texture and diffusion, known for building fragrances with clarity, volume and a precise sense of tension. His work often balances sensual florals, musks, woods and spices with a polished, highly wearable structure. For Carine, Ropion shapes the house’s idea of controlled excess into a patchouli-led floral with amber warmth and a chic, assertive trail. His style suits the brief perfectly: elegant, forceful and unmistakably composed, with enough radiance to feel modern and enough depth to read as old-school glamour.
Collaborators
Carine Roitfeld shaped the creative vision as the house’s founder and muse, bringing her own taste for audacious, genderless seduction and insisting on a fragrance that felt personal rather than commercial. Dominique Ropion translated that brief into the final composition, giving the perfume its polished floral-amber structure and assertive trail.
Carine Roitfeld’s story
Carine Roitfeld Parfums is built around the idea of perfume as identity: intimate, seductive and deliberately non-subtle. The house favors tactile luxury, strong character and genderless compositions that feel like personal signatures rather than trend-driven releases.
Carine’s concept
Carine was developed as part of Carine Roitfeld’s long-running fragrance project, which she described as a personal dream. The scent extends her 7 Lovers universe into a more direct, self-possessed statement: a chic patchouli floral inspired by the kind of controlled excess and nocturnal glamour that defined her fashion world.
Extra info
Carine is part of Carine Roitfeld’s 7 Lovers fragrance world, a project built around fictional lovers and iconic cities. The line is known for its opaque, weighty bottles and handwritten-style labels, designed to feel more like personal objects than standard luxury packaging.
Celebrity connection
Tom Ford was publicly linked to the project’s early development, and the launch drew appearances from Kris Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Joan Smalls, Halima Aden and Tracee Ellis Ross.
A self-possessed perfume for a person who doesn’t need anything, but craves everything. This is excess with control, 70s-era Bianca Jagger wearing Halston, lighting up the Studio 54 dance floor. Carine is a fiercely chic patchouli with an ample gardenia and jasmine cleavage, trussed in a corset of vetiver. Sighs of rose and amber sail through the trail of this Dominique Ropion composition. Confident, elegant, insolent.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is the scent of a room where the music is loud but the posture is calm: a sharp, composed presence that turns heads without asking for them. It suits close quarters, evening light and a wearer who prefers a strong signature to a decorative flourish.
How to wear
Best worn in cooler weather or at night, when its amber, jasmine and patchouli can unfold without losing shape. One or two sprays are enough; it projects with confidence and leaves a substantial trail, so it works best applied lightly to pulse points or clothing.
Who it’s for
For those who like floral perfumes with backbone: patchouli, amber and spice over sweetness, with a vintage, slightly decadent feel. It will appeal to wearers who want something chic, assertive and genderless, with a strong personality and a polished old-school edge.
Release year
2022
The nose
Dominique Ropion is one of contemporary perfumery’s great architects of texture and diffusion, known for building fragrances with clarity, volume and a precise sense of tension. His work often balances sensual florals, musks, woods and spices with a polished, highly wearable structure. For Carine, Ropion shapes the house’s idea of controlled excess into a patchouli-led floral with amber warmth and a chic, assertive trail. His style suits the brief perfectly: elegant, forceful and unmistakably composed, with enough radiance to feel modern and enough depth to read as old-school glamour.
Collaborators
Carine Roitfeld shaped the creative vision as the house’s founder and muse, bringing her own taste for audacious, genderless seduction and insisting on a fragrance that felt personal rather than commercial. Dominique Ropion translated that brief into the final composition, giving the perfume its polished floral-amber structure and assertive trail.
Carine Roitfeld’s story
Carine Roitfeld Parfums is built around the idea of perfume as identity: intimate, seductive and deliberately non-subtle. The house favors tactile luxury, strong character and genderless compositions that feel like personal signatures rather than trend-driven releases.
Carine’s concept
Carine was developed as part of Carine Roitfeld’s long-running fragrance project, which she described as a personal dream. The scent extends her 7 Lovers universe into a more direct, self-possessed statement: a chic patchouli floral inspired by the kind of controlled excess and nocturnal glamour that defined her fashion world.
Extra info
Carine is part of Carine Roitfeld’s 7 Lovers fragrance world, a project built around fictional lovers and iconic cities. The line is known for its opaque, weighty bottles and handwritten-style labels, designed to feel more like personal objects than standard luxury packaging.
Celebrity connection
Tom Ford was publicly linked to the project’s early development, and the launch drew appearances from Kris Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Joan Smalls, Halima Aden and Tracee Ellis Ross.