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Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2014, part 8

Posted by Robin on 13 May 2014 13 Comments

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. Today’s post includes collector bottles from Marc Jacobs, Balenciaga, Guerlain and Giorgio Armani.

Marc Jacobs Pink Honey Edition

From Marc Jacobs, the Pink Honey limited edition, featuring the original Honey fragrance: “The bottle is splashed in this season’s sweetest shade, Marc Jacobs Pink Honey Edition’s bold stripes, feminine dots and new punch of colour meet in a graphically clever way.” Available for pre-order at The Fragrance Shop in the UK in 50 ml Eau de Parfum…

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The untamed heart of the bewitching flower

Posted by Robin on 12 May 2014 Leave a Comment

Actress Kristen Stewart in a new ad for Balenciaga Florabotanica.

A more enveloping flower

Posted by Robin on 11 January 2014 2 Comments

Actress Kristen Stewart talks about Balenciaga Rosabotanica, and gets decorated with flowers for the photo shoot. We also hear briefly from the perfumers: Olivier Polge and Jean-Christophe Herault.

If you missed it, here's the video she did for the original Florabotanica fragrance.

Balenciaga Rosabotanica ~ perfume review

Posted by Robin on 19 December 2013 35 Comments

Balenciaga Rosabotanica bottle trio

I was not a huge fan of Florabotanica, the last pillar fragrance from Balenciaga, but I do sometimes like a flanker better than the original fragrance so I doggedly persist in trying them, and that’s especially true when I adore the bottle. And I did adore the Florabotanica bottle. I love the bottle for Rosabotanica, the new flanker, even more.

Florabotanica was a modern, clean, office-friendly floral, or as I put it when I reviewed it, “a modern, shampoo-ish blended-floral style several steps removed from the actual flowers”. It was essentially loud (in the early stages, anyway) without any depth or richness. Rosabotanica is advertised as “unveil[ing] a fresher territory, with a sheer, enveloping second skin character”, and yep, that’s pretty much how it works out.

Rosabotanica, then, takes the sillage of the opening down a notch, but it also spices things up a bit…

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Balenciaga Rosabotanica ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 4 November 2013 13 Comments

Balenciaga Rosabotanica

Balenciaga will launch Rosabotanica, a new floral fragrance for women, this December. Rosabotanica is a flanker to 2012’s Florabotanica…

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