Indie botanical line Strange Invisible Perfumes has launched Essence of IX, a new limited edition fragrance created in collaboration with California winery Colgin Cellars and named for Colgin's IX Estate vineyard:
In its latest pure perfume, Strange Invisible Perfumes taps this Colgin mystique through a blend of rare, carefully distilled essences. The resulting perfume, Essence of IX, is a stirring, sensuous tribute to the refinement of Colgin winemaking. The perfume echoes the Colgin vineyard’s unique terroir, the cellar’s earthy embrace, and select notes found within the wines themselves.
[...] As exquisitely endowed and carefully handcrafted as a Colgin red, Strange Invisible Perfumes’ Essence of IX is a dreamy, botanical elixir. Acres of roses, Ann Colgin’s best-loved flower, provides the principal atmosphere for brambly essences of French oak, white sage, black currant, wild honey, and California lavender to take root.
[...] Devoted to luxury craftsmanship and uncompromising in her desire to either procure or distill the world’s best essences for this project, Balahoutis spent over a year selecting which ingredients to feature in this fragrance. She commissioned a twelfth-generation master distiller, also located in Napa, to produce an exquisite batch of French oak essence for the perfume. One of the defining alchemical accomplishments of the composition, the oak essence was triple distilled in old European copper stills from a wine called ‘Esprit de cognac’ which is aged in French oak barrels.
Strange Invisible Perfumes Essence of IX is available in 1/4 oz Parfum, $320. (via press release)
Well, sounds interesting. Not that I’m going to get to test any SIPs, they’re well out of my price range.
I never see “IX,” in whatever context, without thinking of the planet called IX in the Frank Herbert Dune books.
I did like the phrase “brambly essences.”
Oh, too bad — I do love the line. The EdPs are not badly priced, IMHO, but of course this one is not in EdP.
Because I scrolled through this backwards, once I saw $320 I didn’t bother to read the rest. I have wanted to try their stuff, but will leave this one out.
Never scroll backwards, LOL!
Wow, quite highly priced. I wonder if samples are available at the Perfumed Court or other sample sites.
I’m sure TPC will have it eventually. I think they also sell samples on their website (?)
Pricey, indeed and I wish that weren’t the case – this sounds really interesting and I would LOVE one of those bottles. The top is a perfect little crystal ball and I want it!
I love the sound of the oak essence…looking forward to trying it.
This sounds like it’s made for me! I really enjoy this line, with its unusual scents and the beautiful bottles.
I like the line too.
Anything dinky ,with golden juice in extrait ,calls my name – but the price……
Would love to at least sample it and I hate falling for limited editions .:)
Doesn’t matter to me if it’s LE…but I do hope it sells well enough that they do an EdP version.
I like that bottle. Unfortunately, I don’t know any store that carries Strange Invisible Perfumes in Montreal.
No, they’re very hard to find in person here too.
Also love the bottle and a perfume inspired by a vineyard would be pleasing to my husband the wine buff! (For me to wear and him to notice!) However the price! Arrgh!!
It’s spendy, true!
I’m partial to “Q”, the oak fragrance by Roxana Illuminated Perfume….
its been out a while, and its heavenly yet grounded like the tree.
Love the amber notes, and its not nearly as expensive as SIP.
Thanks!
I’m a fan of Roxana’s “Q” as well, which unfortunately makes me even more curious to try this one to see how it compares.