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Matthew Williamson The Collection & Matthew Williamson Sheer ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 9 February 2007 19 Comments

Matthew Williamson The Collection fragrancesThis month, Matthew Williamson will introduce The Collection, a set of four travel-inspired fragrances. Each scent focuses on notes from the original Matthew Williamson fragrance.

Lotus is meant to recall a summer evening in Bali, for example, and has notes of magnolia, cassis and bergamot, plus a lotus flower accord. Warm Sand was created to evoke Morocco and features notes of ginger lily, musk and sandalwood. Ibiza-inspired Jasmine Sambac includes jasmine sambac notes, while Incense, an homage to the mountains of western India, has frankincense, patchouli and labdanum notes. The juices were concocted by International Flavors & Fragrances perfumer Clement Gavarry.

Also coming soon, Matthew Williamson Sheer, a lighter take on the original fragrance, with notes of lime oil, green tea, bergamot, ginger, jasmine, magnolia, lily of the valley, Easter lily, sandalwood, benzoin, amber and musk. (via Women's Wear Daily)

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  1. Anonymous says:
    9 February 2007 at 9:28 am

    But….he *will* rerelease the original Incense in the fall? Feel free to lie – I just need to hear a “yes” answer on that one. If I'm in a more cheerful mood at some later date I can perhaps absorb the disappointment of a negative. Perhaps…as I return to scouring ebay.
    However, that said, I'm intrigued by the Jasmin Sambac and Incense scents from the travel collection and look forward to trying them.

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  2. Anonymous says:
    9 February 2007 at 9:31 am

    You know, I'm hoping someone will tell me! I don't know where the original news that the Miller Harris/Matthew Williamson Incense was going to be re-released came from, so don't know if this indicates that somebody misunderstood the news they heard?? That was certainly what I assumed when I saw that “Incense” was included in this set.

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  3. Anonymous says:
    9 February 2007 at 9:50 am

    I wrote the MW people to ask whether Incense will indeed be re-realeased. No response. Seeing this new Incense announced makes me think that the answer is No. :-(

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  4. Anonymous says:
    9 February 2007 at 10:10 am

    M, it seems incredibly unlikely that MW would allow MH to release a fragrance with the same name as a new scent that he is trying to promote on a much larger scale. But as I said above, I don't know where the news came from, just that I read it on MakeupAlley at some point.

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  5. Anonymous says:
    9 February 2007 at 12:17 pm

    I don't know what it is but I'm a bit tired of endless jasmine and incense scents… Warm Sand sounds potentially good, though.

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  6. Anonymous says:
    9 February 2007 at 12:37 pm

    I didn't adore his signature fragrance, but hoping these will be a bit more interesting. Endless incense is ok with me though :-)

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  7. Anonymous says:
    9 February 2007 at 6:27 pm

    Excuse me…any perfumers reading this, please understand that I will happily make up for any lost sales you have from Ina w/ jasmine and incense perfume. Keep them coming!

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  8. Anonymous says:
    9 February 2007 at 6:49 pm

    That's what's making me nervous too. Very. A scent w/ the same name? And saw your comment on Aromascope about wishing that lines would take a decent amount of time to polish and perfect a scent instead of just racing multiple perfumes out in a relatively short amount of time. Pulling up a soap box right next to yours there. I know these can't be compared to the ELdO scents and I'm guessing they'll be fairly pleasant, but I still don't like the idea of five (four and a half?) scents coming out simultaneously. The original MWI was a brilliant, classic scent. Why not skip all these filler scents and just bring that one back? God knows it had a solid fan base. Grumble, grumble….

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  9. Anonymous says:
    9 February 2007 at 9:45 pm

    Incense. I NEVER GOT TO TRY IT. Got that? So we need it. Lots. Now. Because people want this and I might like it. Which is Important. Okay? Okay? Yes. Thank you.

    Just had to get that off my chest.

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  10. Anonymous says:
    9 February 2007 at 9:46 pm

    Then there's the bottle. OMG. The bottle. Yes.

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  11. Anonymous says:
    10 February 2007 at 10:00 am

    You do know that by “original” Matthew Williamson above I meant the 2005 release, and not the Miller Harris, right? Just making sure!

    And yes, here is another example…so glad you're joining me on my soapbox! In the case of these more mainstream lines, I think the inspiration is different. They are presumably going to spend money to promote the scents, and this way, maybe they'll get 4.5/700th of the pie from their investment instead of just 1/700th. It seems to be the big thing now — everyone is doing it!

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  12. Anonymous says:
    10 February 2007 at 10:00 am

    LOL!

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  13. Anonymous says:
    10 February 2007 at 10:02 am

    I have to admit that I did try it, and didn't love it at all. But I know many people did, so sorry that they can't buy any…and not sure why Miller Harris can't get MW to let her release it under some completely different name. What should he care?

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  14. Anonymous says:
    12 February 2007 at 10:19 am

    that's an interesting thought. Why doesn't someone ask Lynn Harris if it's being rereleased – she'd know for sure.

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  15. Anonymous says:
    12 February 2007 at 11:25 am

    That would be too easy! j/k, actually I didn't email because I haven't had good luck in the past getting straight answers from MH.

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  16. Anonymous says:
    12 February 2007 at 11:28 am

    durn, and there was me thinking I'd had a brainwave…

    perhaps if we all email her. We might have more luck lobbying her than MW?

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  17. Anonymous says:
    12 February 2007 at 11:33 am

    I wonder? Who knows how they licensed his name. Maybe she could release Incense under a new name, maybe they have some agreement that prevents her from doing that.

    If you can get an answer from them, do clue me in :-)

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  18. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 11:24 am

    The licence for Matthew Williamson is owned and distributed by Juniper Brands – that's what it says on the base of my Collection set… yes folks! I've just bought the new collection of 4 single notes – I've been layering the incense with the warm sands…. pure heaven :D

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  19. Anonymous says:
    20 February 2007 at 1:19 pm

    Looking forward to trying them, thanks!

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