NOLITA BODY SILK

We at Bond No. 9 have a confession to make: The pace around here has been so hectic lately that we can scarcely find the time to wander around and explore the streets beyond our Bond Street headquarters. But all that changed when word got around that Nolita, the neighborhood that begins just across Houston Street, two blocks south of us, has become a Millenials' facorite and the hottest of Downtown's hotspots. So of course we did what we always do with New York's most exciting and iconic neighborhoods. We gave it its very own scent.

And yet, as if magically, Nolita has been spared from obvious modernization. With not a single contemporary high rise in sight, it's retained the look and feel of the old-fashioned Italian grocery-and-butcher-store neighborhood it long had been.

It's a little bit of the past - nostalgia for the old neighborhood - and a lot of the sizzling, beckoning, flirtatiously feminine enticements of its edgy fashion boutiques - that inspired Bond No. 9 Nolita. The starter notes are that ladylike classic, freesia, paired with the unexpected wakeup wham of tangerine - making this a perfect springtime scent. At its heart are heady, topical jasmine sambac blended with romantic enchanting lily. These are then sustained with those warm and beguiling base notes - amber, musk and sandalwood.