New limited collector bottles from Serge Lutens for Bas de Soie and Boxeuses, both due to launch later this year:
Above left, an engraved bottle of the upcoming (June) Bas de Soie fragrance, 50 ml for 300€.
Above right, an engraved bottle of the upcoming (September) Boxeuses fragrance, 75 ml for 850€.
And for anyone who missed the news, the limited edition export fragrance for 2010 is Cuir Mauresque, which will be in 50 ml for 95€.
Ahahaa! That price tag. Yeah.
Ouch!!!
didn’t realise how much!!!
I seriously laughed out loud when I read that price. Perfumista or not I think I could find a better way to spend $1079 than dropping it on -one- bottle.
Youch! I was afraid to do the math because I knew it would be painful!!
Luckily I don’t adore either of them this year. Past years, there have been some I really would have loved to own.
I love the bell jar.
I am no bottle fanatic (though I do not mind a nice bottle, and the bottle can actually help tip my purchase decision one way or the other, in case of doubts), but there are two bell jars that are deeply engraved in my bottle-fantasies.
– Mandarin mandarin
– Borneo (a nice reader of nst has it for avatar! flittersniffer, if I am correct!)
Only the classic Guerlains con compete with those jars in bottle-appeal!!
The Mandarine one was spectacular —
https://nstperfume.com/2007/03/14/serge-lutens-mandarine-mandarin-fragrance-review/
Yep, it was.
And I’ll take the one for Sarrasins please. Full.
Is that the jasmine one? I WANT.
I guess Uncle Serge heard our joking around that his line was “affordable.”
That’ll teach us.
LOL…but the regular bottles w/o engraving are still quite affordable
And for as much as I love exquisite perfume bottles, I will continue buying the regular offerings. In the end, it smells the same right?
So it’s true, $140 is the new $85, isn’t it??
HAHA!
HA!
Excellent. I’m not remotely tempted by either of those. Usually the
engraved bell jars have me weeping with desire.
they have glass etching paste at Michaels and other craft stores. Just cut your own stencil and smear some on a bottle, and viola! Your own VERY limited edition bottle.
While I would never bother to do that for myself, that would actually be a really good idea for a gift.
yes! exactly. Plus—I think I could do better than those strange quasi-Batman **BAM** **POW** explosion looking thingies. Maybe I’m just being a “wowser-ruiner-super-fun-sucker” but I’m not at all impressed by either bottle…not even a little bit!
Its a vortex. Its meant to suck you into buying it. Look, isnt that a pair of legs hanging out?
I dunno—looked like slobber to me…but then we had a big ole slobbery Saint Bernard when I was a kid, and well, that reminded me of St. Bernard slobber. (deeesgusting)
That Boxuses bell jar is gorgeous…but 850 euro…please!!!
These two LE bottles are gorgeous — I do wonder what the juices are like, though. My heart is after the Boxeuses.
I think the flacons are lovely, too, and am looking forward to discovering the juices. Drool! (But not enough to ever make me consider shelling out that kind of dosh for bloody perfume! I do wish his prices were more democratic.)
At first I thought the 300€ price was for the bottle on the right and thought “well, I suppose that’s reasonable”. But 850€ for 75 mL? Good grief. Rather have a Louis Vuitton purse for that much.
I kind of wish the Boxeuses bottle also had “Wham!” and “POW!” engraved on it to go with the boxing theme, but it’s pretty cute nevertheless. Not 850 euros cute, but cute.
PS I don’t really see why anyone (unless because you can’t get ahold of the exclusives line) would buy 50 mL for 95€ (1.90€ per mL) when 75 mL is 110€ (1.46€ per mL).
PPS Will buy exclusive bottles and ship to anyone (I’m in France) with caveat that I can keep any extras and if it breaks in the mail I’m not at fault.
I am taping your name onto the side of my computer as we speak…
You might regret saying that. LOL!
I am curious why they dont export rahat loukoum….
They might one day. The rationale behind the decision to export this or that fragrance every year is mysterious.
CUIR MAURESQUE!!!!!!!!!! Oooh yeah, Sergey! Merci boucoup! That is one of my favourites from the Exclusif collection. So is Muscs Koublai Khan. If things carry on in this way, 2011 will be Tubereuse Criminelle………
looks like Bas de Soie is now available for order online, as well as Fumerie Turque in the Export range.