The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Let's play emerged from Suol's 2024 catalog. Katerina Soloveva built this fragrance around four key notes: pear, rose, tobacco, and champagne. The pairing of effervescent champagne with fruity pear creates an immediate brightness, a sparkling quality that feels both inviting and lively. The pear brings a crisp, almost crispness to the opening, while the champagne adds a celebratory fizz that feels like carbonation in the air. Rose and tobacco add depth that rewards patience, revealing themselves slowly as the bright top notes settle. It's a composition that refuses to choose between playful and serious, balancing levity with complexity in a way that feels intentional rather than accidental. The result is a fragrance that feels like an invitation, a suggestion rather than a demand.
What makes this structure interesting is how the champagne lifts the florals without making them feel precious. The rose maintains its character, adding elegance without tipping into formality. Meanwhile, tobacco anchors everything, adding warmth without heaviness. Incense appears sparingly, less of a presence than an atmosphere, a subtle suggestion rather than a bold statement. The combination creates a fragrance that reads celebratory at first, then settles into something more intimate, more personal.
The evolution
The opening is effervescent pear and champagne creating an immediate fizz, a bright and sparkling introduction that feels both fresh and inviting. Then the rose emerges, threading through with a quiet deliberateness that adds elegance without heaviness. Tobacco arrives in the heart phase, blending with the champagne rather than fighting it, creating a seamless transition from top to heart. These elements circulate as the fragrance develops: the fizz settling gradually, the florals deepening, the tobacco becoming more pronounced and present. The drydown is tobacco and a faint trace of incense, warm, close, lingering on the skin. The overall trajectory moves from bright and effervescent to warm and intimate, with each phase offering its own rewards.
Cultural impact
Let's play occupies an interesting space: champagne, rose, pear, and tobacco in a 2024 release from a house built on refusing convention. The combination of effervescent top notes with grounded base notes creates something distinctive. Tobacco brings an earthier quality to the composition, balancing the brightness of the champagne and pear. The overall effect positions this as niche fragrance for those who appreciate structure and intention, rather than just mainstream appeal. It's not competing with mainstream luxury directly; it's offering an alternative for those seeking something different.
