One whiff’ll get ya high.
High Line Park is now a perfume — also designed to lift the senses above the city’s grit and grime.
So says Laurice Rahme, founder of Bond No. 9 — which will retail at $145 for a 50-milliliter bottle and $220 for one twice that size when the fragrance hits store shelves next month.
“This is a real, local, New York railroad-track fragrance,” Rahme said. “Eighty percent of the notes come from plants and flowers that grow on the High Line.”
But as much as New Yorkers may love grazing weeds, purple love grass and oak, many had doubts about wearing them.
“Gee, I hope it’s not based on some of the dog poo that lies around here a lot of the time,” said Gretta Baker-Allen, 27.
An inspired Thomas Verlofski, 24, said, “Maybe I’ll design an after-shave based on the smell of the public toilets in Penn Station. I’m sure that would be a best-seller.”
Earlier Bond No. 9 fragrances, Rahme noted, captured the essences of Brooklyn, Central Park and Wall Street.