La Prairie will add three new fragrances to last year's Life Threads range (see Silver, Gold and Platinum). Life Threads Sapphire, Ruby and Emerald will launch in September.
Life Threads Sapphire ~ a floral woody amber with green leaves, apricot, freesia, sea jasmine, wild narcissus, gardenia, woods and amber.
Life Threads Ruby ~ a floriental with bergamot, orange blossom, lily of the valley, saffron, ylang-ylang, rose, jasmine, sandalwood, vetiver, musk and vanilla.
Life Threads Emerald ~ another floriental, this one with galbanum, orange blossom, angelica, rose, jasmine, daffodil, iris, sandalwood, oak moss and amber.
La Prairie Life Threads Sapphire, Ruby and Emerald will be available in 50 ml Eau de Parfum. (via moodiereport)
WOW!!! These Sound Very Desirable! The Sapphire Most So, Loving the Apricot, Freesia, Sea Jasmine, Gardenia, Amber mix going on in that one! 🙂 Hope they live up to the promise of the notes!
So far have not loved any of the fragrances from La Prairie…their aesthetic just does not suit me. But will give these a shot!
Robin, I was completely underwelmed by them
They certainly don’t seem to be trying very hard to connect the notes to the names, do they?
In fairness, there were three flankers to the Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds line using these exact same three gemstones, and they didn’t make the slightest effort to match the colours to the scents, either. (Was Diamonds and Emeralds a green scent? No, it was not.) I’m not sure the average buyer cares about such things.
I have a feeling, though, that this augurs the limitless expansion of the La Prairie line, because there are a couple hundred gemstones they could and presumably will use in the future. I expect to see nine more scents next spring so that they’ll have the entire set of birthstones available (there’s a marketing ploy that writes itself), and then the twenty-plus variations on quartz (citrine, carnelian, onyx, jasper), and after that, god help us. They’ll metastasize and take over the entire world.
Except I’m really surprised if these sell well enough to generate that many fragrances? We’ll see. So long as I don’t have to watch any more of the videos, those were easily the worst fragrance videos I’ve ever sat through.
Oh, I don’t really think they’ll sell that well; I was just engaging in a flight of fancy. (Although the birthstone thing honestly wouldn’t surprise me–I just think they’d do it in threes.)
La Prairie is an aspirational brand, with prices to match: I mean, they sell a completely insane product called Skin Caviar, which is just an encapsulated face serum (you put a little pile of them in a square of fabric and squeeze it to pop the tiny spheres, then dab the serum-laden fabric on your skin, seriously) and that’s $175 a jar. The Life Threads scents are $125 for a 50-mL bottle; not out of line for a niche scent, but more than most people are willing to pay in a department store, where I think the average hovers around $60-$70, so obviously they’re not going for the mass market there, either.
Thank you, the Skin Caviar description cracked me up!
Pyramus: my thoughts exactly! You said it all!
La Prairie may well be an “aspirational” brand, but who aspires to it? There are a lot of better products for the discerning consumer, a lot of far cooler brands and at better prices. So who buys La Prairie?
The image it creates, at least here, is of a rich 60+ matron with a lot more money than good taste. If you get a bunch of old rednecks-turned-rich and their wives on a cruise ship, maybe that’s a captive market for this brand.
The metal series were pompous and stuffy and overdone. La Prairie is better but in the same spirit. So really who?
People with more dollars than sense, I’d say.
In the same way people slow down to look at a car accident, I hope these generate the same quality of videos. Those things were too hilarious.
I’m not really a La Prairie fan, but I am curious to try these, especially the Emerald. They caught my interest at “galbanum”
I’ve never tried a La Prairie scent (or a La Prairie anything for that matter). I can’t imagine buying one of these. They seem to be for very serious, wealthy, department store shopping people. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I just think security would escort me out before I got a sample.
It actually annoys me that they don’t match the fragrance to the gemstone. Maybe I am anal but it seems those sorts of things should dovetail, you know? Quite aside from that, I will be in no rush to sniff these as I was assaulted (not too strong a word, btw) by the matronly SA in House of Fraser with one of the other Life Threads and could not wash it off fast enough! It was sickly sweet and smelled like a horrible mating between Giorgio and Sand&Sable. Urgh.
Glad it isn’t just me. Ok, so Liz didn’t match either, but at those prices, I wouldn’t expect much. Even if La Prairie had followed the birthstone theme and incorporated that month’s flower or something, my inner nerd would have been satisfied.
Hmm. I guess I am a wee bit grumpy today!
I just watched the films for the first time and they are hilariously bad! The ending for Silver made me laugh out loud. The narration seems like it should belong on a ‘Skinemax’ film. 🙂
Haha, now you’ve made me want to watch! 😉
goodness, I know : stunningly bad! I couldn’t decide whether to laugh or be offended. When I saw this post come up –the very first thing I thought was “omg–not more La Prairie videos!” But of course, I’d watch them just to see if they learned anything from the last round.
Now I want to go back and watch the videos. I never did. For some reason, these bottles appeal to me. Hard to believe it’s been almost a year since the first three were launched. Ack! It’s that situation of saying, “Oh, didn’t we just see that movie 6 months ago,” and having someone reply, “Uh, try three years ago.”
La Prairie seems to be getting a bad rap here… and perhaps rightfully so, i think their Skin Care Line is kinda Matronly and Stuffy, Although i was Deeply surprised by, well, hell i actually LOVE, Silver Rain and their first Fragrance which is long been off the markets was a little known MASTERPIECE! Been searching for a bottle of that for years, Although i kinda refuse to pay 300 bucks for a bottle of it on Ebay… but i digress…. they may not in the most recent fragrances hit the ball outta the park, but i can GUARANTEE that if anyone of you can Scrounge up a bottle of the “La Prairie” Fragrance from the Early 90’s, you’ll rethink your feelings about what the house can do with a perfume!
I wasn so underwhelmed my gold, silver, etc. that even the enticing notes cited for these don’t inspire much lust. But then, it’s 99 degrees here today and I have a sinus infection, so probably not much would inspire lust right now….
Ugh, you poor thing! I’d be unscented today, for sure.
aww sorry for your poor sinuses (I take breathing quite seriously) ….and the blazing heat too! Sounds awful….hope you feel better soon.
Wow didn’t think they’d do round 2… The bottles for these look wildly un-imaginative – it looks like a kid took some crafts shop crystals and a glue gun to the original bottles.
ha! I have to agree—I don’t get the bottles with little things glued on them! Bond no9 goes crazy with glued on crystals, Micallef –ohimgosh, someone take that woman’s glue gun away! Summer camp is over! and most recently I got a bottle of Estaban Tonka– on the front there’s a big glass blob glued on! You’d think it was an accident except the packaging is worked around said blob…I’ve been known to remove obnoxious “decorations” with a sharp jack knife.
I just wish this entire brand would go away, die, vapourise, disappear, implode …
they’re “threads” ….maybe they could unravel….
Oh, I gotta look up these videos.
I have no point of reference here except for this: I was looking for a particular counter in a dept. store last week just to get a jar of face cream (I’m a grab n’ go sort of person), and the La Prairie lady told me there wasn’t one of those counters there. I politely thanked her, then she practically tackled me as I was trying to leave, it was frightening. It’s no wonder, there was nobody browsing, buying or doing anything similar at La Prairie. And this was a Saturday afternoon. Sometimes you have to do the department store thing, especially when buying cosmetics or perfume, but DAMN, that day I was pretty thankful for the advent of internet shopping. In a store setting, I will act like a feral cat or little birdie, when forced to endure the proximity of human sales ladies, I scram the first chance I get.
Oh goodness! I feel for you! I was on my way out of one of my local dept. stores once when my eye was caught by the La Prairie counter. I had never seen one before and, remembering those ridiculous perfume ads (mentioned above), I lingered a moment out of curiosity (how could something so obviously tacky and over-priced actually attract custom?). The La Prairie lady saw me and started to move in, but fortunately I saw her out of the corner of my eye, and fled. So glad I got out unscathed.
If you need a laugh, check out what Paula Begoun has to say about La Prairie’s cosmetics. It will make you all the happier about your face cream purchase.
http://www.beautypedia.com/Brand/La-Prairie/138.aspx
Those are some scathing comments indeed! Thanks for the link.
This is one of the infinite benefits of browsing around perfume stores — when I first saw this bottle I thought it was really pretty and shiny, but seeing it a few more times I can say it’s no longer so impressive.