Coming next month from Guerlain, this year’s Cherry Blossom limited edition, featuring a Swarovski flower and a feathered tassel. In 125 ml plus 30 ml travel spray and funnel; 2030 bottles were made…
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Coming from Guerlain, the limited edition Rouge Bonheur (last year's description: "A perfect balance of spicy freshness, blossom, and woody depth, it embodies the very essence of the Chinese New Year spirit. Opening with enchanting spicy notes of pepper and ginger, the fragrance then unveils a floral heart of rose and magnolia, before revealing comforting notes of cedar and white musk"), with decorations by Parisian jeweller Atelier Truscelli for the Year of the Horse (they also did the Lunar New Year bottles for 2025 and 2024). 1786 were made, 24-carat gold plate with 79 Swarovski crystals. It is in 125 ml, and these usually come with a pre-filled 30 ml travel spray.
A great bottle can outlive the scent inside
Fragrance houses know that a great bottle can outlive the scent inside, but few understand this better than Guerlain. “Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain, the founder, understood from the very beginning that the bottle is just as important as the fragrance itself,” says Prazan. In 1853, the French beauty house created Eau de Cologne Impériale for Empress Eugénie de Montijo’s wedding to Napoleon III. Its flacon, adorned with 69 gilded bees (an emblem of the Empire), became known as the Bee Bottle. “For over 170 years, it has been crafted in the same way and by the same factory,” says Prazan. “It remains the oldest perfume bottle in the world still in production today.”
— Read more in These Artistic Perfume Bottles Give Scent a New Shape at Fashion.
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A limited edition collector bottle of Comme des Garçons Zero, called Zero Than Pink ("From Pink noise, also known as 1/F noise, which in audio engineering is a signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the power spectral density is proportional to the reciprocal of the frequency"), done for Australian beauty retailer Mecca. 155 were made, $484 AUD at Mecca.
Christian Dior Le Nectar de J’Adore ~ new perfume
Christian Dior has launched Le Nectar de J’Adore, a new limited edition luxury version of 1999’s J’Adore fragrance for women, in a one-of-a-kind bottle designed by Marc Quinn…