Laurice Rahme of Bond no. 9 will be at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City on Saturday, March 14 to chat with customers, sign perfume bottles and introduce Bond's latest fragrance, Brooklyn.
No reservation is necessary, just show up between 1 and 7 pm. (via press release)
Bond no. 9 is having a contest to design a new bottle for their new Brooklyn fragrance:
When we introduced our latest fragrance, Brooklyn, last month, its breakthrough street-art surface design brought praise and a barrage of responses. Well, we already knew that aficionados of the borough of Brooklyn can be opinionated…
Brooklyn, which launches next month, will be Bond no. 9’s 33rd fragrance. As is the case with many of the brand’s recent offerings, the packaging is half the fun; some people objected to the graffiti-covered bottle as a representation of Brooklyn, but I’m in love. Really, Bond ought to start letting their customers choose the bottle they’d like with their favorite fragrance, don’t you think? And as long as we’re dreaming, have all the empty bottles available in, say, 15 ml?
Brooklyn is a unisex fragrance from perfumer Laurent LeGuernec…
Next up from Bond no. 9 will be Astor Place, the latest in their series of fragrances celebrating New York City neighborhoods. The new scent was inspired by Tony Rosenthal's “Alamo”, a rotating sculpture at the corner of Lafayette Street and 8th Street known locally as the “Astor Place Cube”.
While their last fragrance, Brooklyn, was described as “unisex with a desirably masculine attitude”, Astor Place is pegged as a “unisex fragrance with a feminine tendency”…
Next up in Bond no. 9's series of fragrances based on New York neighborhoods: Brooklyn, due for launch in March.
Brooklyn is changing. New York’s legendary city within a city, home to a century or more of strivers, dreamers, and Nobel laureates, is reinventing itself, neighborhood by neighborhood, as an edgy metropolis…