Andy Warhol Silver Factory is predicted to overtake Chinatown as Bond No. 9‘s best-selling fragrance, and it’s easy to see why; it’s got all the right mass-appeal elements while being just quirky enough to win accolades from the Jet Set.
Silver Factory opens with a brief tin-can twang, perhaps in homage to Warhol’s Soup Can success, after which it veers smoothly into incense/patchouli territory, powder-puff clutched firmly in hand, seeming for all the world like Marie Antoinette slumming it with a bunch of starving artists in Brooklyn — a little hippie-dippie, a lot of flower-power pretty.
The rich French chick is obviously picking up the check.
Warhol would have approved, if for nothing else than the terrific bottle design.
UPDATE:
I sent a bottle of Silver Factory to my sister, thinking that it might be right up her alley, and I was right! This is what she said:
“I do need to let you know that I did get the Bond No. 9, and I REALLY like it – it’s that heavy musky scent that I like so much – and I have to remember to be light-handed with it. I spray it into the air and walk through it – I’m so pretentious!”
She had worn Jean Paul Gaultier for ten years straight. It was time for a change, and Silver Factory is a very nice change, indeed.
