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Andy Warhol's Silver Factory by Bond No.9 - Perfume and Pop Art mixed to perfection.
1 December 2007: a new era for the art of perfumery and design of the bottles. Andy Warhol's Silver Factory marks the start of the new Bond No.9 project: a collection of fragrances dedicated to Andy Warhol. Stated on the pack of a fragrance a graphic inspired by one of the most famous images of the pop art artist: a bold and recolored interpretation of the original Campbell's Soup Can. Soup or perfume? Anyway, both smell good!
Warhol expressed the desire to know a company that was "interested in buying his aura". Here it is, proposed in liquid form.
Bond No.9 creates fragrances completely inspired by the city of New York and for the collection of pop warhol perfumes the focus is: Andy Warhol's favourite places in New York. The first among them the Silver Factory, better known as the Factory. Used from 1964 to 1968 as the original study of Warhol, as a shelter to spend the time, it was a building on East 47th Street that has acquired its own unique image with the walls covered with aluminum foil. Walls that evoked mirrors: emblem of narcissism that pervaded those years.
The Silver Factory was a galvanizing forum for artists, actors, directors, debutants, activists, swindlers and misfits and all those who contributed to its creativity. It's in this place that showed the Warhol film avant-garde, progenitor of pop art superstar.
The meeting point between Warhol and Bond No.9 is New York. If Andy Warhol was a mirror of his time, he would also reflect the vitality and creativity of his adopted city: just like Bond No.9. The alliance with Warhol for Bond No.9 is a new mission: to boost the dynamism of the artist sharing his vision not only through a line of perfumes, but also through a different kind of art: that of the sense of smell and modern interpretation of odor laboratories, clubs, streets of New York that Warhol frequented and made famous.
Bond No.9 Silver Factory is a mixture of woven incenses, soft and smoky (a smell key of the '60s), wood resins and seductive amber. Peculiarities... heart of jasmine, iris and violet: a scent that Warhol was especially fond. These slightly dissonant flower essences combine together to evoke a metallic effect: that of liquid silver. And for a nice fresh breath, Bond No.9 has thrown a handful of cedarwood.
The slim bottle has a silver background with a visible pattern and gives a unique graphics, inspired by the design of the cans Campbell's Soup Can intensely colored as in serigraphs created by Warhol on the Campbell Soup Can of 1965: blue and purple dissonant squares and the logo Campbell badge in yellow mustard. Since it is a bottle of perfume inspired by goodness, Bond No.9 name and logo were replaced with those of Andy Warhol instead of Campbell's golden medallion. A pack, example of meta-design: the sharing of Warhol's artistic reproduction of the famous soup cans and his recycling, for an its new use as a consumer product. A luxury product with the liquid contents! In addition, inspired by the indication on the label Campbell: soup "concentrated", the fragrance Bond No.9 Silver Factory has a fragrance concentration of 28%: between eau de parfum and perfume extract.
Top notes: bergamot, grapefruit, lavender
Middle notes: violet, incense, jasmine, iris
Base notes: amber, wood resin, cedarwood
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