The Chelsea Hotel...In a Bottle
The Living with Legends Blog recently let us know that an up and coming fashion and fragance designer, Kyle Taylor, has recently created a scent inspired by the Chelsea Hotel and its distinctive aroma.
Taylor lived in room 831 from 2000 to 2004, which is part of Thomas Wolfe's old suite. In his own words, Taylor says the hotel reenergized his creativity, setting off not just a fragrance but designs for a fashion line, a series of paintings and even a few chapters of a memoir.
On the Living with Legends blog, Taylor recounts all the inspiration the hotel gave him from the moment he first checked out the place which has been the home for such creative luminaries like Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan, Arthur Miller, Hendrix, and Pollock.
So what exactly inspired the fragance, to be called Kyle.831?
As I was lead down the fourth floor hallway, I realized the hotel had a distinctive aroma. A sort of musk that I have since discovered is also unique to the Chelsea Hotel; a blend that combines the subtle lingering undertones of the century old wrought iron and marble with hints of painting oils and a distinct overtone of the artist's favorite creative stimulant.
Well, century-old wrought iron and marble is probably more preferred than Tom Ford's Black Orchid fragrance which he wanted to "smell like a man's crotch." Heck, we would even take Kyle.831 over Britney Spears' Curious and Paris Hilton's Heiress.
[Photo: Ali Catterall]
Related Stories:
· Kyle.831: A Former Resident's Chelsea Experience Inspires a Fragrance [Living with Legends Blog]
· Chelsea Hotel Page [HotelChatter]
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