...congrats to MichelleAntonia, who won the Acqua di Parma Gelsomino Nobile contest.
Up for grabs: Acqua di Parma Gelsomino Nobile
What is it: one 50 ml bottle of Acqua di Parma Gelsomino Nobile. I decanted a couple samples (I keep the samples, you get the bottle).
How do I get it: For a chance to win, leave a comment telling me that you live in the US. Also, please tell us either a) your favorite jasmine fragrance or b) your favorite Acqua di Parma product or c) your favorite cut flower.
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Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2011, part 12
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.
Two from Estee Lauder — at left, the Beautiful Love Heart Solid…
Acqua di Parma Gelsomino Nobile ~ perfume review
Gelsomino Nobile is the latest from Italian niche line Acqua di Parma. It’s an ‘ode to jasmine’ (gelsomino being the Italian for jasmine), and it joins the two prior fragrances — Iris Nobile, Magnolia Nobile — in what is now called the Le Nobili collection. Much is made in the press materials about the particular jasmine used in Gelsomino Nobile: it’s reportedly a “Jasmine Grandi Flora from Calabria, Italy – one of the last surviving Jasmine cultivation sites, for perfume making in Italy”, and the “green and fresh aspect of this particular type of Jasmine gives a light and airy effect”.
I have not smelled that jasmine in person, but the fragrance, developed by perfumer Michel Almairac, is very light and airy indeed; in style it is so close to Magnolia Nobile that I can recycle bits and pieces from the review I wrote for that one…
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2011, part 10
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 Acqua di Parma, a 100 ml bottle of Iris Nobile Eau de Parfum with a handmade 18 carat gold iris flower. Only a few copies were made; they will be sold in the Acqua di Parma boutique in Milan on September 8 (Fashion’s Night Out)…