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.
From MAC, a solid perfume pendant designed by Marcel Wanders and filled with the MAC Air of Style fragrance. $30 at Nordstrom.
From Annick Goutal, the Collectors de Noël editions: gold bottles of Eau d'Hadrien, Sables, Musc Nomade and Duel (140-150€). Available at the Annick Goutal website.
From Estee Lauder, Pleasures perfume in the Pleasures Spider Compact: "Limited edition, crystal-encrusted collectible opens to reveal the fragrance Pleasures in a long-lasting solid perfume. Sleek and sophisticated with polished golden highlights and tiny glittering facets. It comes tucked inside a velvety pouch and beautiful gift box." $250 at Saks Fifth Avenue.
From Azzaro, the Bois Précieux collection, with limited edition bottles of Azzaro Pour Homme, Azzaro Pour Homme Elixir (shown) and Azzaro Chrome, in 125 ml metallic-look bottles with handmade wood caps. (via parfums-tendance.fr)
From Juicy Couture, a solid perfume ring in the Couture, Couture fragrance. $42 at Sephora.
As an FYI, at my MAC counter the SA said the “Air of Style” fragrance is really Asphalt Flower, the asphalt-violet fragrance they used to carry. That’s what she said, anyway….
Weird. The original Air of Style was different, but who knows, maybe they are reusing the name.
https://nstperfume.com/2007/09/04/mac-air-of-style-armando-martinez-kitsune-new-fragrances/
https://nstperfume.com/2009/10/03/mac-asphalt-flower-fragrance-review/
Robin is right. I’m a makeup artist who has worked at MAC Stores in NYC for five years, so here’s the deal. There is a BIG difference between Asphalt Flower and Air of Style. Air of Style is a “limited edition/special edition” fragrance that debuted a few years ago for the Holiday “MAC COUTURE” collection. It has resurfaced back every year or so since in a different presentation. A few years back for the holiday “Monogram” collection it came in two vails presented in their own monogramed carrying case, and then a year before it was presented in a hand blown glass stopper bottle. Asphalt Flower made its way to MAC last fall via a rollerball formula for the F/W Trend Collection. There’s a big difference in the notes on both. We have the solid pendant at my store now (for Sale Thursday) and I’ve been debating on getting it.
As a note, I’m not surprised that the MUA at Nordstrom didn’t have the correct information. MAC supplies very little information on our fragrances, so its kind of up to us to look for the info via the website (or ironically), here.I even specifically asked someone in the Training department 3 months ago if this was the same “Air of Style” as previous years, and I was specifically told its a “brand new fragrance”, when it isn’t. Just as a note, the original Air of Style was in Eau de Parfum concentration.
Thanks for the scoop!
Oh, I wanted to try that one. I haven’t jumped on the jewelry/solid perfume thing yet, but that fragrance makes it tempting. Too bad I don’t care for the original Pleasures, though, because I love spiders. Musc Nomade is absolutely beautiful, though, and just smells like something to wear around the holidays. I can’t put my finger on the specific note that evokes that feel to me (though a vague association with my mother burning a bayberry candle she loved around the holidays had something to do with it), but that was the first thing I thought when I smelled some. Just curling up by the fire with a warm blanket while the snow fell outside. It is such a gorgeous take on musk.
I have never seen them irl but the E.L solids always seem to be cased in the most exquisite pieces – esp, the Harrods exclusives. But they are very expensive – being such ornate little works of art! I too dont like pleasures – or most of its flankers, or white linen or beautiful, for that matter…
What was asphalt-violet like? (Since its the only affordable item for those of us already maxed out on fragrant purchases!)
See the links above…
I think we may have been posting comments simultaneously!
No problem 🙂
Oh, I love that spider! I wish they’d put Knowing or Private Collection in there.
EL really ought to have some sort of interchangeable compact system so you can always buy the compact and the fragrance you love.
The “spider” only seems to have six legs, and looks more like a beetle.
I thought at first this was a pin,(which would be cool) but actually I think it is just a little critter with perfume in its back.
If you count the two legs in the front, that makes eight.
Hey, at least he’d be a graet smelling insect!
Sorry, that’s great.
Those look like antennae to me, but maybe you are right.
I think the back legs curve around so you can’t see them from this angle — if you count the “thighs” and not the “feet,” they add up properly. I would be very disappointed in EL if they’d made a 6-legged spider (hey, I once took my son’s preschool teacher to task for calling spiders “bugs”!).
Oh, thank goodness, it’s not just me! I had my then 3 yr old go back to tell her teacher that frogs are amphibians, not reptiles.
You guys are a tough crowd, LOL…in a gajillion years I would not have noticed how many legs there were.
OMG! I want that Spider/Beetle/Whatever. I want it now!
Spiders smell like Bandit, though don’t they? Or at least Azuree…
That Juicy Couture thing is entirely brand and scent appropriate.
I would hope spiders smell like Bandit 😉
Maybe nature could create a spider for every scent in the CdG line!
LOL.
Lets rename them accordingly
“Daphne ” becomes “Charlotte”
“Monocle” becomes “mono-filament”
“Play” becomes “Spin” and
“Wonderwood” becomes “barnwood” (where spiders hang out”
I am so happy that I can live without any of these. It makes me happy because sometimes the ‘special limited editions’ make me drool & break into a cold sweat from intense craving.
I know what you mean! The one I like most today is the MAC, which is less than $50 — that almost never happens.