Stella McCartney has lined up quite an unusual scent for her second fragrance - LILY, featuring notes of truffle!
The perfume is named after her mum, Linda - "It comes from my dad's nickname for my mum: 'Linda I love you,'" she said at the press launch - and evokes "a girl becoming a woman. It's an early spring morning, crisp air on the flesh -- and discovery."
"The name is also from the lily of the valley ingredient - I love it as a flower, and so did my mum - it's delicate, feminine, innocent. It was part of my bridal bouquet. But I also wanted to explore its darker, more masculine side. It's a woodland flower and I wanted to capture the roots and the earthy side of it," she said.
As well as Lily of the valley, and the truffle ("I actually told the suppliers we were working with that the extract was for a restaurant! I didn't want to let people know what we were doing," said perfumer Jacques Cavallier), LILY features oak moss, which Stella likes because "you can't grow moss -- you can't plant it unless it wants to grow. I find that quite sexy and sinister, to contrast with the lily of the valley."