Eau de Warhol: Andy Warhol Union Square

Flowers were all over the spring runways from Balenciaga to Gucci, so why not wear them a little closer to your skin? Andy Warhol Union Square perfume is the scent of spring.

The frangrance has floral topnotes of lily of the valley, freesia, and crisp green stem notes with white birchwood and amber tip-toeing in to take away the sweetness and give the scent some depth.

For me, the freesia topnotes are most prominent. We’ve been having a lot of rain in Florida lately and for me, this scent smells like that moment after a good, hard rain when the earth is alive, everything is dewy, fresh and you feel as if you can smell the sunshine.

Developed by Bond No. 9, this collectible scent joins Andy Warhol Silver Factory, launched last year to celebrate the legendary American artist and his New York studios. Warhol’s Union Square studios were the scene of some of his greatest creativity including the famous “Mao” paintings of Chairman Mao Zedong as well as the Flowers screenprints.

All great scents have a great bottle and for Union Square, they have refashioned the familiar Bond No. 9 flacon in fuschia and and splashed it with oversized flowers from Warhol’s Flowers series.

For the serious Warhol collector, the complete Warhol series of scents is available as a portfolio of 10 decorated bottles ($1500 for 10 100mL bottles).