FLASK FORCE

A limited-edition perfume collaboration between two Spanish craft masters says it with flowers

- MARY CLEARY

Loewe and Lladró are two brands with a lot in common. They're both Spanish, they're both born out of an obsessive desire to master a particular material (Loewe with leather and Lladró with porcelain), and they're both exemplars of luxury design. So it seems fitting, then, that the two maisons have finally come together for an exceptional collaboration, launching this autumn: a limited-edition run of porcelain flask toppers for three of Loewe Perfumes' classic scents.

Each fragrance - Loewe OOI, Loewe Earth and Loewe Agua Drop - has been selected to represent three different olfactory universes inside the Botanical Rainbow, the name given to the entire collection of 24 nature-inspired fragrances by in-house nose Núria Cruelles (they are recognisable for their multicoloured, block-shaped glass bottles, designed by Loewe's creative director Jonathan Anderson). The Lladró flask toppers are delicately shaped like carnations, Spain's national flower, reflecting the botanical codes of Loewe Perfumes.

'Synaesthesia is a key aspect of how I perceive the world around me, and when I see the Lladró flowers, I can imagine smells and olfactory notes in my mind,' says Cruelles.