Tuberose Meets Gasoline in Stéphane Humbert Lucas’s New Alone in Babylon

Stéphane Humbert Lucas has added Alone in Babylon, a unisex fragrance, to La Collection 777. In its official description, the house calls it a contemporary oriental floral and invokes the Hanging Gardens of Babylon—a place where flowers appear where they are least expected.

The composition establishes its central tension from the opening: tuberose is set beside gasoline and nail-polish accords. A fourth declared facet is plantain banana—a starchy culinary banana, not the herb plantain. Together, these notes move the floral theme away from familiar creamy softness toward a more synthetic, glossy, fruit-toned image.

The formula then develops through castoreum, Floralozone and Mysore sandalwood. Vanilla, tonka bean, leather and musk are listed in the base, intended to draw the provocative opening into a warmer, denser trail. The house describes the fragrance as playing with gourmand codes: sweetness is present, but without a syrupy effect.

For La Collection 777, this is a notable gesture: rather than another variation on the sunlit-flower theme, the brand makes tuberose the carrier of a contrast between floral physicality, lacquer-like cosmetic polish and a petroleum edge. According to Parfumo, the composition is credited to Stéphane Humbert Lucas himself.

Alone in Babylon is already listed in the brand’s official online store in a 50 ml bottle. For collectors, the most intriguing aspect is not simply its lineup of dramatic notes, but the logic behind them: tuberose is used here not for unquestioned luxury, but to make the sharper accords feel even more vivid.