City parks have always intrigued us at Bond No. 9. These oases of serene greenery give New Yorkers a gathering place, an escape-hatch, and a time-out from the steel and concrete that surround and enclose us. What's more, parks are filled with botanicals, so they smell good - and smelling good with a New York accent is what Bond No. 9 is all about. So it's no wonder that thus far, we've designed 6 New York Park eau de parfums, starting with Central Park and Gramercy park, followed by Bryant Park, the High Line, Washington Square and Madison Square Park. Now comes a 7th - Central Park West - inspired by the fabled thoroughfare that runs the entire two-and-a-half mile length of our greatest urban grassland, situated just across the street.
Elegant thoroughfares with palatial buildings are in evidence elsewhere in Manhattan, but they’re the
specialty at Central Park West, which urban planners and architectural critics regard as one of the grandest, most sumptuous addresses in America. Nowhere else can you find such an amazing line-up of neat and elegant grand-manner apartment houses—with the singular purpose of overlooking and honoring the magnificent greenery that, after all, is their front yard. For veteran insiders, the apartment enclaves of Central Park West—the Dakota, the San Remo, the Majestic, the Century—are quintessential New York, complete with their ballroom-size marble lobbies, private elevator halls, and banquet-style dining rooms And whether in Italian Renaissance, Beaux-Arts, or Art Deco style, many of these buildings look amazingly like the movie palaces of the Twenties—which may explain the street’s longstanding attraction for colorful celebrity-residents, including Zero Mostel and John Lennon. This street is so grand, it has its own high-power access to the stars in the heavens.
