British niche line Roja Parfums has launched Parfums De La Nuit, a new trio of fragrances.
Parfum De La Nuit No. 1 ~ ""Provocative and rich, this fragrant exhibitionist announces its presence. Consuming any who fall into its path, it is the most predatory of Perfumes". —Roja Dove / Bergamot wraps around a warm blend of guaiac and cedar woods, patchouli, papyrus, and vetiver, which is enlivened by clove and costly saffron. The whole fragrance is held captive in a soft, balsamic base of cistus, labdanum, benzoin, tolu balsam, styrax, vanilla, and tonka bean, made sensual by civet and castoreum."
Parfum De La Nuit No. 2 ~ ""Soft warm and tantalising, this fragrance revels in the power of suggestion. The warmth of a touch, the excitement of a quick glance, No.2 is the master of seduction". —Roja Dove / Rum accord is blended with cocoa at the heart of this creation, which is counterpointed by the freshness of citrus, lemon, and orange. Warmed by papyrus, patchouli, vetiver, and guaiac wood, the whole fragrance is sublimated by a soft, sensual base of cistus, labdanum, benzoin, tolu balsam, tonka bean, civet, and castoreum."
Parfum De La Nuit No. 3 ~ ""Exotic and mysterious, this enticing fragrance strips you of your inhibitions as it tempts you to experience the allure of the unknown". —Roja Dove / The freshness of bergamot, amyris, and artemesia counterpoint a note of cool rose in the heart of this creation. A lively blend of cardamom, cumin, and saffron is warmed by cedar, sandal, guaiac, and juniper woods, made earthy by cypriol, gurjum, and patchouli, and underscored by a rich base of incense, styrax, benzoin, amber, cistus, leather-like labdanum, and other leather notes."
The Parfums De La Nuit fragrances are £950 each for 100 ml Parfum, and can be found now at Harrods in the UK.
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Can I please Laugh out Loud at those prices???…..
OK so I see it’s 100ml PARFUM,so I guess that justifies the elaborate pricing.
Please feel free, what does he care? He could probably charge more.
I am laughing too
Priced for the 1% of the 1%! I doubt I will ever see or smell them.
No. 1 and No. 3 sound interesting.
That seems to be his market, yes!
I love to go into Harrods and drench myself in Roja Dove scents free of charge and delight in not giving him a penny for the pleasure! I went crazy spraying sample cards with Diaghilev and they happily scented my drawers for many weeks
I was once standing behind him at the till in Harrods and he was buying 2 pairs of purple Tom Ford slippers which cost about £4500 each – it made me vow never to give him a penny voluntarily !
No need, others are contributing
The thing is, if those were quarter-ounce bottles of parfum proportionately priced, they’d be about $100-$120 each and we wouldn’t bat an eye. Who needs 100 mL of perfume?
They are 950 pounds…so a quarter of that would still be about $355, and I don’t know about anyone else but I’d still be laughing. We all tend to forget that the difference between Parfum and Eau de Parfum is not set by any law, and can in fact “overlap” depending on the brand.
No, a quarter-ounce is 7.5 mL, so you’d get about fourteen of those from a 100-mL bottle, and £950 into 14 is about £68, about $125 Cdn.
Yes, so on a price per ml basis they are not so different from Chanel, etc. The packaging of the stuff into 100ml bottles is therefore an obvious strategy to market the product out of the reach of nearly everyone. People who can afford 4,500 pounds for a pair of slippers.
The slippers make some sense because they can be used to the full. But as has been said, who is ever going to get through 100mls of parfum?
Very good! If there are 13 other people who are willing to buy in, I’d take one share of one of them, just to say I owned some of that….not a big want, and we would all have to agree on which one to get.
And I am a looking way from any place that sells this I think, so I am not volunteering to do the leg work or anything…wow, how’s that for faint enthusiasm? LOL
Loooong, I typed loooong, not looking. Stupid spellchecker!
So sorry — bad math on my part! You’re right. And now I need to remember what I paid for my Bois des Iles extrait.
Although will add that it would never be proportional by ml, right? It would almost certainly cost more for the smaller bottle.
At least Roja Dove is producing and promoting beautiful perfumes. The real lizards are the companies that produce ugly and worthless perfume and spend all the money on marketing to fool people into buying it; IFRA for making the essential ingredients illegal; and companies like Coty and Dior that have ruined perfumes that were originally among the most beautiful.
I don’t endorse making something more expensive than it should be in order to make it exclusive, but at least this creates the possibility that a taste for real perfume might be copied, as has the taste for worthless logos. At least these perfumes exist and we can split them or find decants, unlike all the many beautiful perfumes that have disappeared or exist only as formulas developed for one of the fragrance companies and never produced.
Um, excuse me, would someone kindly help me get down from this extremely high soap box?
No, you are doing very well up there! I agree with every word. At least beauty still exists, and splitting is possible.
You can’t wear six inches of a Chanel dress, but can eke out a five or ten ml decant of 31 Rue Cambon and the experience is just the same as if you had a FB.
Great point, annemarie!
I hope to smell these at Sniffapalooza. His Roja by Roja Dove perfume is wonderful and tempted me but I resisted. It was quite easy to resist it at $3,500 for 100 mLs. I’m still trying to see how I can manage to acquire samples without paying an arm and a leg!