It's that time of year: tons of fragrance coffret sets and limited edition collector bottles for holiday gift giving. Here are just a few of the collector bottles available this year. In most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, only the bottle is worth getting excited over (or not).
Please note that a few of these may not be available in the United States…
From Yves Saint Laurent, theYoung Sexy Lovely Collector Edition. $60 for 50 ml at sephora…
Donna Karan will introduce DKNY Delicious Night this October. The “sexy floriental” fragrance…
…opens with frozen pomelo, crushed ginger and a chilled blackberry martini accord. The heart features purple freesia, night-blooming orchids, satin jasmine petals and purple iris. The scent’s drydown is of molten amber, incense, myrrh extract, patchouli and velvet vetiver…
Donna Karan’s DKNY label has launched a new set of limited edition variations on Be Delicious: Be Delicious Picnic in the Park.
DKNY Be Delicious Picnic in the Park for women is a “lighter and playful version” of the original apple-based fragrance, and is sold in 125 ml Eau de Toilette. The men’s version is in Eau de Cologne, and is described as a “sparkling re-interpretation of the original…”
Givenchy introduced Absolutely Givenchy as a travel retail exclusive earlier this year:
Young and fresh, both elegant and sparkling, the Givenchy woman is an absolute admirer of her brand…
She is “Absolutely Givenchy”.
The fruity floral fragrance has notes of apple…
Winter arrived late this year, but for the past week or so it has been making up for lost time. It is bitter cold, and outside my window, last night’s snowfall is being swirled around by a vicious wind. It is the sort of day when nothing but an oriental will do: hence today’s scent, Donna Karan Black Cashmere. Black Cashmere launched in 2002, and was Donna Karan’s sixth fragrance release for women. It was created by perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux (who also worked on the recent Donna Karan Gold), and the notes include saffron, masala spices, white pepper, clove, nutmeg, pimento berries, broom flower, patchouli, rose, incense, wengue wood, bois de miel, labdanum.
The first blast of Black Cashmere is a little rough: lots of raw, cedar-y wood, lots of pepper, a rush of warm spices…