Christian Dior marks their 60th anniversary as a fashion house this year, and to celebrate, the house is jumping on the haute (luxury/exclusive/expensive) perfume trend. La Collection Particulière is a trio of limited edition perfumes created by designer John Galliano in collaboration with perfumer François Demachy.
La Collection Particulière Passage N°4 (shown at right) is described as a "sovereign rose, a fiery pimento, a journey, a garden".
La Collection Particulière Passage N°8 (shown below) is described as a "velvet violet, a sophisticated iris, a dream, a burst of laughter".
La Collection Particulière Passage N°9 is described as a "dazzling tuberose, creamy woods, late nights, fireworks".
The fragrance bottles are based on an "original flacon designed for Miss Dior in 1947".
Christian Dior La Collection Particulière Passage N°4, N°8 & N°9 will be available at selected Christian Dior boutiques (30 worldwide) or online starting on November 19. The fragrances are €320 each for 75 ml Parfum. (first three quotes via fashion.dior, last quote via cosmeticnews)
Update: a few additional notes ~ orange, amber and musk for Passage N°4; ambrette for N°8; jasmine, pachouli and vanilla balsam for N°9. (via cosmeticsinternational)
320 euros? Goodness they'd better be good! Oh I suppose it is Parfum but then who wants 75 mls of parfum? I have read elsewhere that each of them was inspired by one of three models, Stella Tennant, Kate Moss and Gisele Bundchen. With respect to the highly successful models mentioned I prefer exclusives without a celebrity tag. In fact, come to think of it, I prefer most things including non exclusive scent without a celebrity tag! Still if I stumble across them (hahhaaa) I'm sure I'll sniff with pleasure – 4 and 9 in particular.
Very pretty bottles! Bravo Dior! Good fragrances too I'm sure.
In comparison Nina Ricci's special bottle seems like a widow's bottle.. What a disaster for a 75th anniversary.
I read the same thing on a forum, and can't say it endeared me to the collection. But at least it isn't in their official statement online, I guess.
These descriptions are too terse to be tempting anyway. I'm sure I'll smell them if I happen across them, but that seems unlikely.
We have different tastes…I find the NR bottle much more tempting!
To add to my history of wrecking scents for people by being rude about the bottle….I looked at that shot of No. 4, and thought 'blood clot!'. I'm sure it's quite gorgeous in the flesh, but I'd still rather have the blue one.
Ugh!! Luckily I like the blue better myself, I think you're just ruined the red for me.
I am a lover of all shades of blue/green-blue. The blue bottle could come from Venice…the orange is very pretty as well and the red one is so classic.. I just fall for the bottles, the juices just happen to be inside…!!
It does look like Venetian glass. Sounds like you need one!
I need another trip to Venice.
My hopefulness about these scents plummeted when I heard they were inspired by those three models. Gisele is too closely associated in my mind w/ Victoria's Secret for me to think I want to fork over close to $400 for a floral scent created w/ her in mind. If the scents are brilliant (actually, they'd better be beyond brilliant for that money), of course, I will consider it, but I'm also definitely odd man out in that I don't care for the bottles. I'm not really into color when it comes to high end bottles (except for that black Nina Ricci, which I adore). Anyway, I'm no longer exactly waiting w/ bated breath for their release.
Admittedly I was not too hopeful even before that. There are too many luxe/multiple releases this year, and too few of them were worth getting excited about. I've run out of steam.
Looking back, Chanel really did it right in the sense that they released tons of information and got lots of press. And, they priced the scents reasonably. Something like this, with these little terse descriptions, no info on the noses, and the huge dollar amounts, I can't get excited about. For their 60th, they should have done a coffret w/ Dior Dior, Diorling & Diorama.
I love you, R, and I love the blog, but now I have a monster lemming for the No. 8 (predictable? I prefer to think of myself as consistent) and I kinda hate that.
MUAH, though.
Hope for your sake then that you live near a Dior boutique so you can smell it — this is too $$ to buy unsniffed! The problem is that there is so little info that they all sound good. I mean, I like rose, I like iris, I like tuberose — presumably I need all 3!
And serious apologies for the lemming
Oh, they so should have, they so should have!! *weeps*
Yep.
I can never bring myself to pay that much money for a bottle of perfume. >_< Someone I know claimed to order a bottle of these. (No. 8 I think) I will have to get her to let me take a sniff of it if she really got a bottle.
Me neither!