Dudes. Listen up. Dark forces are at work. No longer is it going to be a safe bet to selecting some nice flowers to offer your beloved. Now – compliments of a luxury trio consisting of Bompas & Parr, The London Edition, and Perrier-Jouët – you might have to make sure your chosen blooms aren’t of the ordinary hum-drum one constant colour variety but newfangled and fascinating colour changing Fleurs des Rêves.
Yep, upping the ante for Valentine’s rituals, earnest apologies, anniversaries and the like, this ultra-lux troika of discerning tastes has launched the world’s first colour changing flowers.
Take a gander and have a go at arranging your own colour changing flowers during the quick run of Perrier-Jouët Fleurs des Rêves at a pop-up flower shop in Basement of The London Edition, where visitors can pick up bouquets of chameleon blooms, sip Perrier-Jouët champagne and join a workshops to create their own colour-changing flowers.
For the Fleurs des Rêves, Bompas & Parr created two forms of colour changing flowers. The first is treated with a liquid crystal dye that changes at 27 degrees Celsius from a deep satin black to Champagne bottle green exhibiting all the hues regularly seen on the backs of beetles. You can cup the flower in yours and your lover’s hands to effect the transformation or even use your hot breath!
The second varietal of colour changing flowers is treated with a black thermochromatic dye that is transformed at 31 degrees Celsius. The bloom is then spritzed with Bompas & Parr’s perfumed crystal elixir and ignited. In the heat of the flame, the blossom changes colour revealing the original pigment. So the ritual of giving a bouquet becomes a total sensory onslaught, enhancing the fleeting enchantment of this Valentine’s tradition. This second, more incendiary, flower is only available through participating in one of our technical floristry workshops.
The installation runs through 14 February, and features set design by Petra Storrs, perfumed crystal fluids infused with stones charged in the full moon including ouwarovite, black mica and cymophane, and a choreographed playlist that becomes “more lurid, profane and psychedelic” as the evening progresses.
Tickets to the workshop available at info@basementldn.com. Go to bompasandparr.com for details about the event.
The London Edition is located at 10 Berners Street, W1T 3N. For details visit editionhotels.com.
