French niche line By Kilian has launched The Crystal Carafe, a 650 ml handmade fragrance vessel inspired by a Cognac carafe.
We are pleased to announce the launch of Kilian's unique crystal carafe created in collaboration with French crystal maker Saint-Louis. Kilian’s desire was to offer his fragrances in a larger flacon that would be true to his philosophy.
A luxurious object, made to be kept for a lifetime.
The Crystal Carafe is available in a number of the brand's fragrances and comes in a lacquered wood presentation box with funnel and 50 ml spray bottle, €3500.
(via By Kilian at Facebook, bykilian)
“Kilian’s desire was to offer his fragrances in a larger flacon”
Seriously? In a tank? TANK?
I believe the correct term is vat
“Jug” being a much too gauche descriptor.
Exactly.
That vat is gorgeous.
Admittedly it is quite pretty.
I wouldn’t mind seeing that design in a normal-sized bottle. I don’t need a whole barrel of one perfume, though.
Wow! Would any of us ever drain that “vat”? 650 ml is an awful lot of juice
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Gosh. Would anyone on earth?
I would.
I haven’t found I needed more than 5ml of any Kilian, let alone 650.
Biggest split event ever! I now want to go to a china shop and buy a swanky crystal decanter, because no matter what the price it will seem reasonable next to €3500!
Crystal decanters are so out of fashion you can pick up a really nice antique crystal decanter here for well under £50, fill your own you could save a couple of thousand euros !
Don’t see the pint of the fancy presentation box, once you’ve filled your decanter you’re not going to want to lie it down on its side inside a wooden box in case it leaks. When Tom Ford did a presentation box for his 250ml decanters (which just look like dark brown versions of these – though not crystal!) he did the wooden box with a magnetic flip down front so you could actually store the decanters inside and you really foul use it as a ‘presentation’ box by lowering the front so the decanters were visible.
Well, I will be in England this summer so maybe I will pop into an antique store! I could doubtless buy an equally swanky box to put it in, at least until I have some whiskey to put into the decanter…
We’re overrun with antiques !
I think that whisky would be a far better use for the decanter than a Kilian perfume !
I’ve been known to splurge a little money,but this is just too much…lol.
Plus, once you used a little bit, then there would be air in there, and it would just sit around and go off, unless you kept it in a deep freeze or something, and then no one would see it anyway.
Pretty wasteful display of disposable income, seems like. Of course, if I had so much money that spending that much on some perfume was actually something I might do, maybe I would feel differently.
“made to be kept for a lifetime” because it will take you that long to empty it.
Several lifetimes.
Doesn’t his fragrances alleady come in barell form? At least those seem easier to decant from.
I recall seeing a black cask with a spigot on it when he first launched the line… wonder if this is a replacement for that concept? But 650ml is really too much of anything.
I can totally imagine a guest strolling in and pouring himself a tumbler of the stuff!
Ohhh, you’re right! Especially if they filled it with By Kilian Apple Brandy.