This has been in the comments several times recently, but for anyone who missed it: The Legacy Fragrance Collection Discovery Coffret from Estée Lauder. "Experience two extraordinary scent artists. Five ingenious sensorial experiences. Iconic scents, ingeniously evolved. Mrs. Estée Lauder, the creator of indelible masterpieces. Frédéric Malle, the acclaimed perfume editor who has reimagined our legacy fragrances for the 21st century." $30 at Estée Lauder.
“The minute I sold my company to Estée Lauder, I said that I wanted to do this,” says Malle. [...]
“This is where she tortured perfumers,” Malle says with a laugh, gesturing around the ornately-decorated, jewel box-like space. (The view of Central Park is so breathtaking, one has to wonder if visitors ever found it distracting during meetings.) Malle is, of course, not being literal, but referring to Lauder’s famously high standards for fragrance. For example, Beautiful, a blend of orange flower, mandarin, and rose that launched in 1985 and went on to become one of the brand’s bestsellers, was the result of “many, many months” of Lauder mixing iterations at the very same desk that sits in the corner of her office today, says Malle.
— Frédéric Malle on the upcoming Estée Lauder Legacy Collection. Read more in Reinventing a Beloved Fragrance Is Risky Business at Allure.
Estée Lauder will launch the Legacy Collection in Feburary, with five of the brand’s fragrances (Azurée, Estée, Knowing, Private Collection and White Linen) in updated formulas developed by Frédéric Malle working with perfumers Anne Flipo, Carlos Benaïm and Bruno Jovanovic…
First up, a 12 minute video from Lush showing off their Holiday collection for 2023 (hear about Turmeric Latte at around 6:18), followed by (below the jump) a concise 30 second holiday video from Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle.
Frédéric Malle and Jean-Claude Ellena talk about the new Heaven Can Wait.