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 Cacharel, the Le Jardin Cacharel series, featuring Scarlett, Lou Lou, Eden, Noa, Anais Anais and Amor Amor, each decorated in the color associated with one of the fragrances’ floral notes. In 25 ml, due to launch in April…
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 Calvin Klein, CK One in the “we magnets” edition — it comes with 40 small magnetized beads. What you do with the beads escapes me, but they’re meant to symbolize ‘the connection between us all’. In 100 ml Eau de Toilette, due to launch this month…
Balenciaga's Nicolas Ghesquière talks about the new Balenciaga Paris fragrance. In French with English subtitles.
Update: this video has been removed from YouTube, sorry!
Balenciaga Paris is the latest fragrance from Balenciaga. It’s the brand’s first major launch since Cristobal in 1998, the first effort under new licensing arrangements with Coty, and the first under creative director Nicolas Ghesquière. It’s fronted by Charlotte Gainsbourg, who is frequently described as Ghesquière’s muse (see the very low-key Gainsbourg ad here). Perfumer Olivier Polge characterized the floral chypre as “present” — “It’s here. When you wear it. You smell it.”1
That might sound a little oblique, but it turns out to be a fitting description: when I first tried Balenciaga Paris on paper, my reaction was muted, and it wasn’t until I’d worn it on skin several times that I began to see what he meant. Balenciaga Paris wears like a minimalist veil — think Prada’s Infusion d’Iris or L’Eau Ambrée, although it smells like neither. It starts soft and fresh and watery…
In fact, in 1997, when [Nicolas] Ghesquière took the helm, “the house was existing because of the perfume license,” he says. “But what they were doing was not really corresponding to what I was doing. It was not my Balenciaga, not my vision.”
To ensure that the new fragrance captured his futuristic yet feminine aesthetic, Ghesquière sniffed his way through about 100 blends before narrowing down his choices to two. He left the final decision up to [Charlotte] Gainsbourg...
— From Charlotte Gainsbourg: Flower Girl at W magazine. The article discusses the new Balenciaga Paris fragrance. Many thanks to Tomoe for the link!