The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Nathalie Lorson created Electric Purple in 2018 as part of Lalique's Les Compositions Parfumées collection. The concept draws from a high-contrast pop of saturated colours, lit up by a lash of Bitter Grapefruit, a spray of Mint and Violet Leaves glowing a fluorescent green against the berry. It translates that electric-purple energy into scent: juicy, playful, and deliberately not subtle. The house's crystal heritage is visible in the bottle; here, the juice is the crystal.
What makes Electric Purple structurally interesting is how it refuses the usual floral bridge. This one keeps mint and violet leaf in the composition through the heart, not as a fleeting opening act but as structural members. Blackcurrant adds tartness, but the cool green notes persist. It's an unusual choice that keeps the fragrance from tipping fully into sweetness, even as the boysenberry stays vivid throughout.
The evolution
The opening is immediate: boysenberry and grapefruit together, bright and acidic. Almost astringent for the first five minutes, you feel the citrus more than you smell it. Then mint arrives and everything cools. The violet leaf keeps the green quality going while blackcurrant adds tartness without dominating. The heart reads as cool, almost meditative rather than sweet. By the second hour, moss and patchouli emerge, earthy, grounding, intimate. This is the payoff the name promises: the colour becomes depth. Helvetolide lingers as a skin-identical warmth, close and personal. Moderate projection means it stays with you rather than announcing you.
Cultural impact
Electric Purple is a bright, saturated berry chypre from Lalique's Les Compositions Parfumées collection. Collectors featured it in their 2020 Best in Show roundup for blackberry fragrances, noting it as a standout. Wearers describe it as a berry chypre with more aromatic character and less saccharine sweetness than expected.
