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Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2010, part 12

Posted by Robin on 27 July 2010 37 Comments

More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.

Jean Paul Gaultier Classique Charm Edition 2010

Another day, another limited edition from Jean Paul Gaultier. This one is the Classique Charm Edition 2010. Due to launch in October, 100 ml for 90€. (via veraclasse.it)


Sisley Eau de Soir

From Sisley, limited edition collector bottles of Eau de Soir "crowned with a sculptural 18-carat matte gold-plated stopper", £162 for 100 ml Eau de Parfum at Harrods.


Philippe Starck for Nina Ricci L'Air du Temps

From Nina Ricci, L'Air du Temps in a new bottle by designer Philippe Starck: frosted glass depicting two intertwined doves. In 45 ml Eau de Toilette, due to launch in October. (via cosmopolitan.fr)


Diptyque roll-ons

Not limited edition, and not really collector bottles either, but still worth a look: Diptyque's colognes (L’Eau de l’Eau, L’Eau de Neroli, L’Eau de Hesperides, and L’Eau de Tarocco) in gel-based rollerballs. $48 each, look for them in July. (via style, cosmeticworld.com)

Filed Under: fragrance shopping
Tagged With: collector bottles, diptyque, jean paul gaultier, limited edition, nina ricci, sisley

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  1. devilbunnies says:
    27 July 2010 at 11:20 am

    From that angle, the L’Air du Temps bottle looks like a monster skull or a strange animal.

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    • boojum says:
      27 July 2010 at 11:23 am

      Yeah, I couldn’t really make it out either. And when I saw the Sisley, I wondered why Womanity had an LE bottle already…oops.

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      • devilbunnies says:
        27 July 2010 at 11:30 am

        Hahaha! Maybe we just need more coffee this morning. 😉

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        • aestheticcoo says:
          27 July 2010 at 12:11 pm

          Nah, I’ve had enough coffee this morning to fuel a jet but this read to me as an abstracted rhino with an inverted horn! lol:) Yea…I still can’t see the doves. Oh well… Only the Diptyques look good to me – and the bottles are simple and straightforward too.

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          • boojum says:
            27 July 2010 at 12:14 pm

            I could see a rhino… also perhaps a toucan.

    • Charlotte_V says:
      27 July 2010 at 12:29 pm

      It looks like a bat to me, or a boomerang (although I totally get the rhino, too, now that you mention it.)

      Too bad the weird-cool bottle contains a perfume I can only just barely, sort of, smell–the new version of L’AdT is one of those things I’m almost completely anosmic to.

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    • tsetse says:
      27 July 2010 at 12:41 pm

      Yeah, I get some weird bird out of that bottle too, or that most vicious dinosaur in Jurassic Park, velociraptor? It also reminds me of a bottle opener. It’s a velociraptor shaped bottle opener… (heads for the coffee)

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    • miss kitty v. says:
      27 July 2010 at 12:48 pm

      I used to have an animal jaw bone that I kept in my car (I don’t know either, so don’t ask– I also have pictures of myself with it), and it looked a lot like that bottle. So of course I really like it.

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    • Robin says:
      27 July 2010 at 12:50 pm

      It is hard to decide what it looks like, but whatever it is I like it.

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      • ajuarez says:
        27 July 2010 at 1:07 pm

        I like it too, it almost looks like brass knuckles, imho.

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      • Tama says:
        27 July 2010 at 6:57 pm

        Looks like a Klingon weapon to me. I like it, though!

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        • miss kitty v. says:
          27 July 2010 at 7:17 pm

          Darn, they missed a real marketing opportunity– that would have sold like Star Trek-shaped hotcakes at Comic Con!

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    • pigoletto says:
      28 July 2010 at 5:44 am

      Yep – looks like a skull in a Georgia O’Keefe painting. Now knowing it’s doves, I still don’t see it.

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  2. Craig Su says:
    27 July 2010 at 11:53 am

    That first bottle looks like Classique from JPG a lot.

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    • Craig Su says:
      27 July 2010 at 11:54 am

      Crap that IS from JPG. Sorry I didn’t notice that. lol

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      • Robin says:
        27 July 2010 at 12:50 pm

        🙂

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  3. datura5750 says:
    27 July 2010 at 12:19 pm

    Love! Love! Love! the L’Air!

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    • Robin says:
      27 July 2010 at 12:50 pm

      Yeah, I’d like one of those.

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  4. Nina says:
    27 July 2010 at 12:33 pm

    To me, it’s a pterodactyl. Can’t see the doves at all. But LOVE those Diptyques.

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    • tsetse says:
      27 July 2010 at 12:44 pm

      Yes, pterodactyl, me too! And I love those Diptyques as well. That’s super exciting. If they’re any good, it’d be great to see rollerballs of the edts too!

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    • Robin says:
      27 July 2010 at 12:51 pm

      Aren’t those Diptyques great? Hope the “gel” formula does not mean silicone though.

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      • devilbunnies says:
        27 July 2010 at 1:05 pm

        Is silicone bad?

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        • Robin says:
          27 July 2010 at 2:03 pm

          No, I’ve just had very poor luck with the shelf life of silicone-based perfumes…the scent just seems to fade after a year or so. For most people that probably doesn’t matter, but of course I have too much perfume and don’t use things up quickly.

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          • devilbunnies says:
            27 July 2010 at 4:11 pm

            I asked because I had my scientist boyfriend test my SJP Lovely Liquid Satin for mold today. I’m waiting for the results. I will probably avoid silicone in the future also. 🙁

          • Robin says:
            27 July 2010 at 5:34 pm

            Oh dear, really?!? Did it smell bad or just look bad?

          • devilbunnies says:
            27 July 2010 at 11:02 pm

            It just looks bad. There are light brown chunks floating in it which grosses me out. But my boyfriend says there is no mold, only silicone and mineral oil. He says the brown is probably just the chemicals oxidizing. So at least it won’t infect me!

          • Robin says:
            28 July 2010 at 11:52 am

            Oh, that does *not* sound appealing.

  5. NinaraPoll says:
    27 July 2010 at 12:50 pm

    I thought the L’AdT bottle was either a VERY strange painter’s palette or some sort of abstract bladed weapon (boomerang, fan, maybe a shield?). *heads for something with a VERY high caffeine content*

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    • devilbunnies says:
      27 July 2010 at 1:06 pm

      Haha! I love all the interpretations of the L’AdT bottle. So funny. I do like the bottle though. It is really interesting.

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  6. dominika says:
    27 July 2010 at 1:49 pm

    Those Sisley bottles are a bit tacky, but I love the L’Air one — it’s so creative. I wonder what that hole is for, maybe it could double as a necklace if you thread a chain through it 😛

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    • miss kitty v. says:
      27 July 2010 at 7:19 pm

      I love the Sisley bottles! But then again, I love tacky. I *am* tacky. So that must be why.

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      • dominika says:
        28 July 2010 at 5:38 am

        For some odd reason, they reminded me of that Fellini movie about Nero’s Rome where everybody lays around in opulence and debauchery with a really fake set design reminiscent more of the time it was filmed (1960s or 70s) than of old Italy. I could totally see those bottles on Elizabeth Taylor’s dressing table as she portrays some Roman temptress in a Hollywood movie in her heyday … so I guess it could be worse 😉

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  7. sweetlife (ahtx) says:
    27 July 2010 at 3:55 pm

    If I were MDCI I’d be peeved at Sisley right now.

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    • Robin says:
      27 July 2010 at 5:34 pm

      Sisley had that basic bottle design long before MDCI.

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      • sweetlife (ahtx) says:
        27 July 2010 at 8:08 pm

        Oh really? Good to know. Never would have guessed there was such a big luxury sector market for heavy heads.

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  8. Celestia says:
    28 July 2010 at 2:45 pm

    The L’Air du Temps bottle is disturbing. I too get pteradactyl, bat, jawbone, sharkfin, and a possible pendant for a necklace.
    I respect Mr. Starck’s other work but I just don’t get this piece. I can see the two doves but how does this thing stand up? Where are the doves tails? Chopped off? The placement of the silver cap is what really bothers me. Could it not have been where the loop is somehow? LADT such an iconic fragrance; this treatment is too avant garde for my tastes.

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  9. Minxieme says:
    1 August 2010 at 11:45 pm

    LOL at ‘Pteradactyl, bat, jawbone, sharkfin, and a possible pendant for a necklace’!

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