Luxury niche line Clive Christian will launch C For Men next month:
"C" for Men maintains the complex character of the Clive Christian Perfume House enhanced here with treasured Saffron spice and rare Snow Lotus, bringing a dominant spirit and seductive strength throughout the perfume.
The notes include white thyme, tea, green leaves, lemon, mate, elemi, mandarin, jasmine, rose, cardamon, raspberry, cinnamon, clove, cistus, saffron, orris, oudh, amber, cedar, tobacco, musk, vanilla, leather, cypress, treemoss, styrax, costus (snow lotus), tonka bean, olibanum and guaiacwood.
Clive Christian C For Men is available now for pre-order at Neiman Marcus, $375 for 50 ml "perfume spray". (via neimanmarcus)
That’s just a wall of notes. And more money than I would EVER spend on something so faux-luxe.
It’s not actually that out of line, you know. The “lists of notes” we tend to see are usually only a sketch; there could easily be fifty or sixty different elements to a scent, or even more, so the 30 listed for this don’t seem like much of a stretch. Back in the day (1989), Giorgio Red was advertised as having over 600, which is obviously showoffy overkill if it’s even true, but there are a lot of different notes that go into a complex scent.
Still, the whole overpriced-luxury Clive Christian thing has never appealed to me. It would have to be just about the best thing in the history of the universe for that kind of money.
Oh, I understand that a fragrance has dozens of notes; it just seems unnecessary to list 30 of them. Lines usually streamline this list for consumers so they can get a “picture” of it. I didn’t get any sort of distinct impression of this one, though, due to how many they chose to list.
It is interesting that they provide such a long list of notes…
you think so?
and they never want ot tell who is the nose behind the creations. Though they hold very nice presentations in store….
When I was in Saks recently, they had the Clive Christian testers out on a counter, and I did not sniff even one, even though I had been sniffing like mad all afternoon. What’s the use in testing something I could never justify buying? I just looked at the price of the CC No. 1 for women–OUCH!!!
They are all nice perfumes, but have never thought any of them worth the price, although you can find smaller travel sizes.
The Clive Christians I have smelled have been pretty nice but the price point is too much. Hard to tell what this will smell like with everything but the kitchen sink in there.
They’re certainly spendy!
Are you sure you didn’t leave out a “0” at the end of the $375 price? 😉
The regular bottles are not so outrageous (unless you consider the $375 outrageous as I do) — it’s the special bottles w/ diamonds & whatnot that are really over the moon.
I’m sorrry, but when I saw “C” for Men, all I could think of was Cookie Monster and the “C is for Cookie” song.
LOL!!
The bottle reminds me of MPG’s. Tacky.
Ouch!
I would be curious to try this. I have a travelers set, and I really like them but rarerly put them on. Maybe I don’t want to waste such expensive juice. HA! Go figure.
LOL…yes, you are more likely to waste it if you don’t wear it!
For that kind of money I want a better name than “C”. Something as extravagant as the price: Cabassou (really an armadillo, but let’s pretend it a French palace) or Cabrerite (mineral, but we will make it an Italian island). Come on Clive Christian, minimalism is not in fashion any more, try to keep up 😉
I’d buy something called Armadillo.
Me too! If Lanvin or Clive Christian had any sense, they’d be in a bidding war to get Bjorn to name their perfumes 🙂
Google says: “Armadillos produce a musky odor that some people find to be repulsive”. Forget Clive Christian, I think we just found a new project for Etat Libre d’Orange!
Yes! “Cabassous en Chaleurs” (or something like that). ELdO should get on that, stat.