Hermès will launch Kelly Calèche in a new Eau de Parfum concentration next month. Kelly Calèche Eau de Toilette was introduced in 2007, and was followed by Kelly Calèche Extrait de Parfum last year.
The new Eau de Parfum was developed by Hermès house perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena, and features "enriched floral nuances". The notes include barenia leather, lambskin, rose, violet and vanilla.
Hermès Kelly Calèche Eau de Parfum will be available in 50 and 100 ml; the bottle features an Hermès lock charm hanging from the neck. (via vogue.fr)
I'd be interested to test this one b/c the original Kelly Caleche just didn't quite work for me, even though I thought it had promise, and I really liked the opening.
I'm very interested in this one too. I never got to smell the extrait, which I couldn't afford anyway.
These days, I don't know – sometimes it's just better to not smell the extrait. Usually it means heartbreak for me b/c I can't afford it anyway….tho there is always the blessed decant!
You know, I think that it's just as well we haven't smelled it. Of the hundreds of scents I HAVEN'T tried in extrait, this might well be a lurking lemming. I love the edt, and the thought of it all extra-concentrated. . .the pepper, the iris, the rose. . .OMG. I'm salivating. . .
Yeah, it's high on my list for the year. Hope it pans out.
Ummmm, I'm sure it will be quite nice, Hermes usually does a good job of things, but. . . . . lambskin?!!! I honestly can't imagine in a million years, my husband nuzzling my neck and saying “Mmmmm, you smell like lambskin. . .” B -a -a – a – a . . . .
I know, every new release that comes out I feel like they are trying to steal my ideas for Prix Eau Faux! Though I guess if we can smell like cow skin (leather) we can smell like lambskin too. I love the EDT but partly for its lightness (office-friendliness); I'm very curious to try this.
LOL! I'd guess they're just trying to find new ways to say “soft leather” — really doubt the leather accord will be any different than it was in the original, although wouldn't mind if it was stronger.
Enriched floral nuances? Didn't like this 🙁 I thought they were creating a enriched leather nuances. But i really love the edt version, so i think i don't need edp
Have you guys saw the 15ml version of kelly caleche edt? It's the best size. I wish all brands did 15ml version of its perfumes, it'd be great to collect.
The first thing I thought of here was Hannibal Lecter from Silence Of The Lambs…not a good image. I assume leather, lamb skin, etc. are all synthetic?
Yes, I would wear the bottle around my neck it's so pretty but I'm afraid some venerable Brit might smell my “lamb accord” , slather me with mint jelly and devour me pronto! Okay, I'll get off the lamb kick now. . . .
Premium quality leather, be it lambskin or cow skin, actually is very subtle in scent. I had a few chances to smell Hermes leather goods and, surprisingly enough, they do have a floral nuancet–really like the real orris butter with a suggestion of mimosa, although I suspect it's has more to do with the leather treatment/tanning process more than anything else.
Anyhow, I don't expect the EdP to be that different to be honest. I sampled the parfum a few months ago (and actually reviewed it on my blog) and didn't find it vastly different from the EdT. Sure, it has a smoother development curve (and a great persistence) but I find the price more on the aspirational marketing side.
BTW is it me or I don't find the lock charm too appealing? It sort of breaks the line of the design and look a bit…forced. Maybe it's just me.
I tryed KC yesterday. I think it was a perfume concentration because the bottle wass small and wierd.
The smell was roses on leather and it was devine.
And because i couldn't afford it either I just did manicure in the color of KC bottle:) That's how badly I want it:)))
All synthetic, and there aren't really different chemicals for “leather”, “lambskin” — they're just trying to describe the fact that the leather here is “soft”.
I think that was true for the extrait? But I didn't smell it so couldn't say.
Was the bottle shaped like a lock? If not, you probably smelled the EdT.
No, I don't love the lock either — don't think it adds anything to the bottle. But I guess they had to do something.
i loved the extrait. ( 7.5 ml goes fast) It was not the same fragrance as kelly caleche. The extrait is more rich and floral and I swear the leather note is buttery. The ultimate luxury , packed in its orange box — the padlock bottle. it is refillable, although you need the geek squad to figure out how. It is extraordinary. curious on this edp.
You're not supposed to tell us you loved the extrait, LOL…since none of us can have it 😉
The lock-shaped is actually a special edition–the actual parfum is also sold in 30ml regular bottle. My Hermes store actually couldn't get the lock-shaped bottle because the headquarters wouldn't send it so we have the regular packaging instead, but the juice is still a parfum concentration.
I love the extrait as well, but I don't plan on buying it–mostly because I feel the difference between the EdT and the parfum aren't all that different. Sure, you get a longer sillage and a better development curve (okay, maybe better ingredients) but does that necessarily the exponential price differences? That's the judgement call–it isn't really to me so the EdT will suffice.
I do, however, think the parfum is a good idea from a product development point of view–Hermes is a stickler for quality control and IMHO the parfum solves some development kinks found the EdT. (I find the vegetal axis to be a bit distracting from time to time, for instance. But overall Kelly Calech smells like a mango-orris-leather unisex on my skin.)
Ah, didn't even know that, thanks!
Kelly Caleche EdP is different. I loved the EdT for its elegant leather – synthetic rose – iris combination and I was afraid that the EdP would be too strong. But in fact the EdP is a different world, it is a superbe ROSE, one of the best interpretation of the lately issues (and there were quite a few). It is less aggressive than the EdT, paradoxically, because of its rounded sweetness, but not heavy at all and not changing.
I have still not tried the EdP on skin, only on paper — thanks for the description!
Very different on paper than on skin… or maybe just my skin. On paper it’s more floral. On my skin it’s pure leather, not feminine enough. I prefer the EDT to the EDP, but ended up buying the EDP. I would suggest wearing each (on skin) for several days before making a commitment.
Let it be known that as of today, I am in lurrrve with Kelly Caleche EDP! It.Is.Gor.Geous!
Sigh. You’re trying to make me drive to Hermes, aren’t you?
You betcha! 😉
Wait, you’d be driving to Hermes because you are also madly deeply in love with the EDP and need a bottle right.this.minute, right? Or you want to try it out for size?
So far, have only smelled the EdP very quickly on a card. I guess I’d drive to Hermes to beg for a sample? Except hardly worth buying…they are so nice about samples in NYC, but not at my local Hermes boutique.
A pox on your local Hermes boutique!
FWIW, you strike me more as a KC EDT kind of person. I may be wrong, but I think you could find the EDP too flat for your taste? Also, to my nose it’s definitely the more masculine of the two, well, the more unisex at least.
Well, I’ll give it a shot. Still haven’t tried the extrait either.