Bond no. 9 has launched Saks Fifth Avenue Texas, a new limited edition unisex fragrance exclusive to the Texas Saks Fifth Avenue stores.
The scent is meant to evoke "a tour through a scenic South Texas garden"; the notes include mandarin, bergamot, black currant, pineapple leaves, jasmine, gardenia, hedione, neroli, lily of the valley, vanilla, vetiver, cardamom, musk and oakmoss.
Bond no. 9 Saks Fifth Avenue Texas is $360 for 100 ml Eau de Parfum; 400 bottles were made. (quote via culturemap, additional information via beautypackaging, )
OMG, my stepmom – a “Winter Texan” – would flip over that bottle. Good thing she’s not a perfume wearer.
Next time I’m at the grocery store, I’m going to have to try to smell the pineapple leaves.
It looks very Texas, but then, I don’t know Texas all that well.
Funny, if by leaves they just mean the spiky tops, they just smell green and waxy to me. Most leaves (attached to fruit) do – except for fig leaves, which really do smell sort of unripe fig/coconutty.
I’m sorry.
Have they LOST their minds?
You don’t think it will sell?
No, that’s the problem. It will probably sell out because people have no shame.
Ahhhh…then, they’re very smart!!!
LOL…slightly and yes it will probably sell out
I jumped on Bond No 9 New Orleans, gorgeous bottle :), i guess that means i have no shame. It called my name, thats the only excuse i have .
Since when is Texas a place in New York? Isnt Bonds gimmick supposed to be that their fragrances all represent an area of NYC?
They’ve done several for Saks now, plus one for Harrods.
Oops. Make that 3 for Harrods.
They made 4 for Harrods:
Harrods for Him
Harrods for Her
Harrods Limited Edition Swarovski
Harrods Rose
The Swarovski is different from the other three perfumes. It’s a strong and fecal oud fragrance, very edgy and some poeple say it smells like cheese…
Thanks — totally forgot Harrods Rose.
PS – they also now do the Harrods Oud fragrance as a non-swarovski non-limited edition version for £230 instead of the £495 for the swarovski version but only in store – not via their website.
PPS – i LOVE the Harrods oud its one of my favorites- i don’t get any cheese from it though!
interesting. No NYC as far as I know to Harrods, but I guess they’re branching out. What huge dept store would not want a bespoke big name fragrance?
I think it’s more because Saks is an NYC store. I suppose Texas is a stretch, but as long as you have a tenuous link to NYC, why would you miss out on cashing in? (sorry for the cynicism today)
They already did a Saks New Orleans too. And possibly another, I can’t remember.
Remembered…they did 2 for the Saks store in Boca Raton.
I know Bond is not one of the overly loved lines around here, BUT the New Orleans Juice is IMO one of their BEST. Go figure! I participated in a split and I am soooo happy I did.
That’s interesting. I’m not sure I ever heard of the N.O. scent. I really enjoy a couple of Bonds and hate others with a passion.
I have to admit, the bottle would probably get me even though the scent doesn’t sound very “Texas”. HOWEVER – and this a big however – it says NYC right on the bottle and that makes it a non-starter.
From someone who lives in Texas: HAR! Half of the plants listed as notes couldn’t possibly survive in Texas, for one thing. Lily of the valley is supposed to represent a South Texas garden???? Gimme a break. Try agave and native honeysuckle and the grape-Nehi scent of mountain laurel, for a start. And that bottle is ridiculous.
THANK YOU! I was thinking the same thing……what about bluebells? lavender? sage? grasses? Do they do any research at all?
One word: OBNOXIOUS.
I wouldn’t care if it was handcrafted by blind, tonsured, Tibetan monks. The kind of people who hand over their cash for this nonsense only do it for bragging rights – and to know they own something (the sparkly bottle) that not many other people have – it surely ain’t because the juice is so spectacular.
And while I’m on my little rant, I’d like to pose a question: How special can said juice be when you seem to churn out 15 new scents a year? Really? Ugh. I’m over it already.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled program….
I live in Texas and snorted over the description of a “typical south-Texas garden” as well, since almost none of those ingredients could possibly grow there (or here in Dallas for that matter). And even for Dallas the bottle is a bit over the top…
We do have a lot of Saks stores here though….
I bet Sue-Ellen Ewing would just love the scent and the bottle too
I saw the bottle in Saks at the Houston Galleria, and I confess that I coveted it–they had some kind of mega-version and it was just so sparkly. Kind of like the blonde girl on the palomino at the rodeo who opens the show with a Texas flag and fireworks. So ultra-Texas, ha ha! Sort of like a joke, exaggerated version of the state (my adopted state, btw). But I do agree with the other Texas posters above, the idea of those flowers in a south Texas garden is preposterous.
When I think of a South Texas garden there’s always the sound of cow mooing in the background, and the smell is not something I would want in a bottle…or anywhere else, for that matter.
The Scent Sounds Wonderful But Bond is such a Hit or Miss with me… some of them smell lovely, others smell just plain ICK! Or Blah, Maybe… but i can surely forsee a Bond Chicago, A Bond Seattle, Bond Boston, A Bond ANYWHERE in the U.S that doesn’t sound like say, Bond Troy or Detroit. because as you know anything associated with Michigan means instantaneous Death by gang bangers or Drive by or mugging, so they can’t POSSIBLY associate a scent with Michigan, unless it is by most peoples assumption the scent of FAILURE! Just gets on my nerves. i KNOW as sure as i am 34 years of age there will be more cities with Saks Scents made just for that city. Saks Troy will never be one of them, GUARANTEE! Screw Em!
I live in south Texas, and of the listed notes, only the jasmine, gardenia, and citrus are plausible for a Texas garden. How about some rose or wisteria? In the spring, the air in my garden is usually fragrant with the smell of wild onions, but I suppose an onion-scented perfume might be a difficult sell. Of course, a true “Texas” scent should smell like steak or barbecue, only Andy Tauer already did that. Why is it that a Swiss guy seems to understand Texas better than a bunch of New Yorkers?
Probably because he lived there (? I think?), where they’ve only seen it in the movies.