French niche line Histoires de Parfums has launched This is Not a Blue Bottle 1.8 Sold Out!, a unisex follow-up to 2016's This is Not a Blue Bottle.
For 25 years, Histoires de Parfums has written stories on skin — memories, instinct, emotion.
This Is Not a Blue Bottle 1/.8 begins a new chapter: a fragrance that refuses definition and lives purely in feeling.
Not meant to be explained — only experienced. The moment it meets you, it becomes your story.
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It doesn’t smell like a flower or a spice. It smells like the way I feel when I’m confident, free, strong. In one word: invincible. SOLD OUT! is an idea, an emotion, a sensation. So let’s put it this way: it smells like the best version of yourself. It’s something very intimate, and I hope that intimacy touches something universal. Everyone can make it their own — their perfume. — Gérald Ghislain
Histoires de Parfums This is Not a Blue Bottle 1.8 Sold Out! is available in 15, 60 and 120 ml Eau de Parfum.
(first quote via Histoires de Parfums at Instagram, second quote via histoiresdeparfums, additional information via jovoyparis)
Um, what? I am personally not terribly opposed to an explanation/description of how a perfume smells.
Nor am I, but it is a common enough thing.
In this case also don’t care because am not in any way invested in this series, plus given this series’ inspirations (this is not a pipe & etc) it does kind of make sense, both not saying what it smells like and naming it “sold out”.
I put the ingredients listed on their website into ChatGPT and it says it will smell like this… pretty standard profile…up to and including the vanilla 😆
woody–amber aromatic family with citrus freshness and a warm vanilla base
Yeah, I glanced at the ingredients list too 🙂
Of course, it is not going to tell you everything, but hey, chatgpt is probably right.