Bond No. 9 - Andy Warhol´s Montauk - EdP - Yellow Design
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Bond No. 9 - Andy Warhol´s Montauk - EdP - Yellow Design

Andy Warhol´s Montauk is the world’s first summer sunset perfume, inspired by Andy Warhol’s fantasy Montauk - where a quirkily quaint little fishing village greets the Studio 54 crowd...

These days, beaches inspire nothing short of reverence.  We savor as never before their bracing aquatic air, their pristine sand dunes and crashing ocean waves…

Montauk

Back in the hedonistic 1970s and ‘80s, Montauk was Andy Warhol´s  getaway retreat from downtown New York.  “ … a little town on the end of Long Island”, as he described Montauk, adding, “the next stop is Lisbon, Portugal.”  Even so, this drowsy, end-of-the-line salt-water fishing haven was soon made world-famous by Warhol and his entourage as a Studio 54 by the sea. What’s more, it served as a secluded vantage point for the artist to observe his socialites and celebrities at play - their number including Jackie O, John Lennon, Salvador Dali, and the Rolling Stones on tour.  

The scent

Montauk is the fifth fragrance in Bond No. 9’s series of Andy Warhol collectible eaux de parfum. It´s an androgynous male-female summer perfume that takes a new approach to the genre of beach scent: It riffs on the duality of country and city, it´s both rural and urban. 
Montauk captures the improbable descent of disco-mania on an unassuming fishing-village and nearby woodlands. Imagine a windswept Montauk sunset hinting at the steamy, sexy nighttime to come. In this twilight zone, the fresh and tangy initial flavors of blueberry and wild bergamot give way, first to sultry, sexy hyacinth, lily of the valley, and honeysuckle, and then to rich, clean forest-by-the-sea aromas - silver maple, red oak, driftwood, and amber. Montauk is a cunning interplay of rustic and urban!

The bottle

The bottle’s surface design displays Andy Warhol’s iconic sunsets, dating from1972 - one year after the artist discovered Montauk. His Sunsets series consist of 632 unique screen prints of a highly stylized, abstracted sunset—each print displaying subtle variations and permutations in its bands of stunning, vibrating colors. As Warhol once said, “the idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting”. 

Two different bottle designs are available:

Bond No. 9 obviously were so taken with Warhol’s Sunsets that they chose four of them, to display in pairs on the front and back of two bottles - giving customers a choice when buying this scent. One flacon (we call it “yellow design”) features a chrome yellow and a gentle blue sun disc, centered between misty shades of pink and blue. The other bottle (“blue design”) depicts two versions of a washed-out blue sun, surrounded by deeper, stormier, otherworldly pinks and blues…

Composition: Description
Head: Blueberry, bergamot
Heart: Hyacinth, lily of the valley, honeysuckle
Base: Silver maple, red oak, driftwood, amber