Beyoncé spent all of 2024 placing stress on our pockets. This earlier 12 months, the singer launched a hair-care line, whiskey, and one totally different perfume at what felt like lightning velocity. Cécred, the hair-care assortment she unveiled final February alongside collectively along with her mom, Tina Knowles, has been well-received. It’s scooped up a number of awards, together with an Entice Greater of Magnificence prize. Sir Davis, Bey’s whiskey made beneath Moët Hennessy, nabbed 4 pretty prestigious awards before it even touched cabinets in August. And he or she didn’t get them as a consequence of her decide, every—she submitted anonymously, presumably to avoid any bias over being a celebrity-backed endeavor. Most easily as of late, she launched one totally different perfume, Cé Lumière, the sister to her 2023 Cé Noir scent.
Queen Bey isn’t the kind of well-known particular person to drop a ton of merchandise on us, so these launches felt slightly little bit of out of character for the singer. In case you ponder your self a member of the Beyhive, your checking account has possibly felt overwhelmed with all the novelty she’s been placing out. The 12 months 2023, alone, was a really costly 12 months to be a Beyoncé fan with the (efficiently worth it!) worth of the Renaissance tour. In case you thought 2024 would offer a 12-month breather, you had been sorely mistaken. The excellent news is that no particular person is forcing you to spend cash on one factor, and that choices Cé Lumière. Nonetheless for people who had been to fork out the money, in my humble opinion, it’s maybe cash efficiently spent.
Cé Lumière is tied to the world Bey’s created for Cowboy Carter, act two of three contained in the multi-album work she’s nonetheless contained in the technique of rolling out. For over a decade, Beyoncé has launched music in a vogue the place it’s to be professional—savored, even. From seen albums to excursions, she breathes longevity into her duties by making them multi-sensory occasions.
Her new perfume, Cé Lumière, is the scent of Cowboy Carter, nonetheless this launch obtained proper right here with rather a lot a lot much less fanfare than Cé Noir. We didn’t get a cute video of her speaking concerning the scent. Merely two Instagram stills alerting us to its arrival. Nonetheless that was bigger than sufficient to spark my curiosity.
The Packaging
Cé Lumière is on the market inside the equal packaging as Cé Noir, this time in a metallic gold colorway. Very like the primary scent, it’s nestled in slightly little bit of holder, which I might do with out, nonetheless I perceive the imaginative and prescient. I’m a gold girlie by means of and thru, so I’m further keen on the look of this new model. It enhances the seen story we’ve gotten (to date) from Cowboy Carter. And no, there nonetheless aren’t official visuals — merely YouTube visualizer, nonetheless the golden tone does remind me of the picture voltaic on a parched desert panorama, depicted in quite a few the flicks we do have for the album.
The Expertise
Each Noir and Lumière embrace notes of jasmine sambac on the coronary coronary coronary heart and citrus on the extreme, nonetheless Cé Lumière is definitely not a flanker for the primary drop. This perfume is totally totally fully totally different—hotter, further delicate, and alluring. It has the depth and thriller Cé Noir lacks.