Tate McRae Celebrates Her Fragrance Launch With a Saint Laurent Slip and a Perfectly On-Theme Necklace
She celebrated her debut fragrance with the perfect necklace
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
There's a reason every pop star eventually ends up behind a fragrance counter. According to Harper's Bazaar, Tate McRae knows it too — and she said as much to Jimmy Fallon this week: "I feel like it's such a pop star thing. You have to do it at some point." Thursday night in New York City, she made it official, throwing a launch event for Tate 01, her debut scent, and showing up dressed like the occasion deserved more than a ribbon-cutting.
The look: a slinky silver slip dress from Saint Laurent — spaghetti straps, cowl neck, dramatic open back — the kind of dress that does all the talking. She leaned into the metal-mixing with gold laced stiletto sandals and a black clutch with gold hardware, both also Saint Laurent. Hair side-parted and swept back, smokey eyes, glossy lip. The silver pendant necklace she chose wasn't incidental, either — its shape deliberately echoed the fragrance bottle itself, a sleek, architectural design McRae clearly obsessed over.
What's Actually In the Bottle
McRae told Fallon she spent roughly a year developing Tate 01, personally working through scent combinations — "cooking up in the lab," as she put it. The final formula is woody and grounded: bergamot and sage up top, amber and sandalwood anchoring the base. No novelty shapes, no bubblegum branding. The bottle is minimal and elevated, which tracks for a 21-year-old who has spent the last few years carefully constructing a pop identity that's more edge than gloss.
She joins a long lineage — Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande — of artists who've treated fragrance as a legitimate extension of their creative world rather than a licensing afterthought. McRae's approach, from the scent profile to the bottle design to the Saint Laurent-dressed launch night, suggests she's treating it the same way.
A fragrance launch only works if the whole thing feels intentional — and Tate 01, from the woody notes to the necklace that mirrored the bottle, looked like someone who actually cared.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
