Robert Piguet has launched Alameda, a new Selfridges-exclusive fragrance:
Experience the regal beauty of Alameda de Robert Piguet. The olfactive vision is an inspiration from the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. Alameda de Robert Piguet eau de parfum captures the scents of the park surrounding the Alhambra, which are filled with wild flowers and roses that were planted by the Moors. Finished with a touch of amber, the scent is a fragrance made for a Sultan. It is extravagant and rich, like a fragrant crown adorned with a delicate note of citrus, the jewels of fine flowers and the warmth of stunning accents like candied patchouli and creamy amber.
Alameda was developed by perfumer Aurelien Guichard; additional notes include bergamot, lys, orris and castoreum.
Robert Piguet Alameda is available now at Selfridges in the UK, 100 ml Eau de Parfum for £135.
(via selfridges)
Wow. Another one. Robert Piguet is turning into the J-Lo of high end houses with how prolific they’ve been lately… Or is it just me?
This is the last (so far as I know) of the store exclusives…
Seriously, it’s like they’re making up for lost time after the reissues of their older fragrances.
It’s true. And I’ve fallen so far behind on testing them I have no idea if they’re any good.
Bois Noir was so brutal that I’ve no desire to try any of the rest. Possibly short-sighted, but my skin time is valuable 🙂
(the rest of the non-reissues, that is — I own Fracas and Futur and have my eye on a bottle of Baghari)
Agreed. I am just not digging all these new releases. They just don’t compare to the old but good ones that stayed firm on the shelves for years without having to justify a newcomer. I find the new lot to be be weak and lackluster.
omg another one?? Is there even a demand for the existing Robert Piguets let alone new ones? I don’t understand their strategy. I sampled all of their new collection, back when they were only six, and they are truly nothing to write home about. I just can’t fathom any of those fragrances selling, does anyone know if they are profitable?
I think that Joseph Garces did a great thing in reviving the brand and the much longed for Fracas, but he seems too attached to it now, to emotionally involved, maybe it is time to hand it over to somebody else.
Well here is another way to look at it: if these other fragrances fund the ongoing production of Fracas, all power to him 🙂
I think it may be the other way around, that Fracas is actually funding all these other releases.
ALL of the new releases that the house of Robert Piguet has recently launched, merit awards. Having had the opportunity to experience all, I commend Joe Garces for bringing a varied line of fragrances, appealing to a wide variety of clientele. I may not personally love all for myself, but I can recognize the quality of each fragrance.
I’v seen positive reviews of Knightsbridge…but my thought was also, another!
I’m not understanding why a French company would choose to release all of their exclusive fragrances in the U.K. Not than keeping them in France would be any better for me.
They are not a french company, wasn’t Piguet’s studio in switzerland or something?
Well I have no quibbles with this line; in fact, I have a bit of a soft spot for them since they bothered to do respectful re-launches of their older frags at all (as well as Givenchy with the Mythique series). I also confess to having a soft spot for Mr. Graces after having met him at last spring’s Sniffa. He’s free of attitude and full of enthusiasm, and that’s mighty hard to find in an industry that’s more often filled with hot air than scent. :-/
All that aside, though, I would like to try this one. And those bottles are still way cool.
I am sure that the Robert Piguet fashion house and studio was in PARIS and the history says he left his home at the age of 18 to work as a designer in Paris. The Robert Piguet fragrances seem to be a success because they are now in the best department stores in the world and I keep tabs on this. I believe that people that post on this blog should not speak about a fragrance if they have not smelled them and if they do not like them its because that fragrance is not one made for them. Robert Piguet has a big counter at Harrods and has a prime counter at Selfridges so if they are not doing well with their fragrances I DO NOT THINK a luxury store with such prestige would keep them in their store. My mother always told me that if you have nothing nice to say you should keep it to yourself and be polite.
You may believe that, but it is not the comment policy here — people may say whatever they like about perfumes, and if you are rude to them because you don’t like what they have to say, your comments will be removed:
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If you have something to say have the guts to say it to my face, digital face or whatever. If you want to live in a world where everything is perfect and everything is a masterpiece and nice, you can go back to Candyland. This is the real world, and perfumery is part of the real world and it’s for people who can look at the good as well as the bad. That is the whole POINT of reviewing.
Also, I was replying to H-whatever, not Robin =)
Blohan, I’m afraid now you are also skating dangerously close to the edge of the comment policy. We simply don’t want people insulting each other, no matter who started it, ok? Going to ask that we please let this discussion go at this point.