Carine

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All about this fragrance

Vibe check

Carine belongs to an evening with movement and a little friction: the room is crowded, the clothes sharply cut, and restraint is more interesting than politeness. Its ample white flowers suggest glamour, while dark patchouli and dry vetiver keep that glamour from becoming sweet or decorative.

How to wear

The substantial patchouli-and-white-floral profile is well suited to cooler weather and mild evenings. Start with one or two sprays on skin, allowing the floral volume to settle before adding more. In warm rooms, a lighter application gives the flowers space without letting their richness dominate.

Who it’s for

For lovers of assertive patchouli, generous white florals and vintage-inflected compositions with a woody backbone. It suits a taste for tailored sensuality: richness and presence, tempered by vetiver rather than overt sweetness.

Release year

2022

The nose

Dominique Ropion is known for combining expansive floral accords with precisely engineered structure. His work includes Portrait of a Lady for Frédéric Malle, and he co-created Alien for Mugler and Flowerbomb for Viktor & Rolf. In Carine, his command of floral volume meets a dark patchouli foundation, with vetiver lending definition to the generous white flowers.

Collaborators

Carine Roitfeld worked closely with Dominique Ropion on the fragrance’s creative direction. Her memories, personal relationship with patchouli and vision of sensuality shaped the brief for this olfactory self-portrait.

Carine Roitfeld’s story

Carine Roitfeld approaches perfume as personal storytelling, translating imagined relationships, places and memories into scent. The house carries her fashion vocabulary of sensuality and irreverence, with fragrances intended to express personality rather than conform to gender boundaries.

Carine’s concept

After the imagined figures of the 7 Lovers collection, Roitfeld made herself the central character. Patchouli became the autobiographical starting point: she had bought its extracts in Indian shops as a teenager. The finished portrait draws together her Russian origins, adolescence, years at Vogue Paris and later Parisian self-assurance.

Extra info

Carine was the house’s eighth fragrance, following the original seven scents of the 7 Lovers collection. Its khaki, pebble-shaped bottle comes in a box that opens like a book, extending the autobiographical concept; khaki is among Roitfeld’s favorite colors.

Celebrity connection

Carine Roitfeld is personally linked to her namesake fragrance beyond appearing in its campaign: in her Vogue France launch interview, she named a vial of Carine among the beauty essentials she kept close.