Givenchy has launched L’Interdit, a new woody floral fragrance for women. L’Interdit is a new version of the 1957 classic inspired by Audrey Hepburn, and joins the recently updated Eau de Givenchy. The 2018 version of L’Interdit is fronted by Rooney Mara….
Givenchy has launched Eau de Givenchy, a new musky citrus version of their 1980 fragrance. The fragrance was inspired by Hubert de Givenchy’s Clos Fiorentina mansion and its gardens in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in the South of France…
Givenchy has launched Encens Divin, a new addition to the luxury L’Atelier de Givenchy collection. Encens Divin follows 2016’s Iris Harmonique and 2017’s Rose Ardente…
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. Today’s post includes special edition bottles from Givenchy, Jo Malone, Guerlain, Lancome and Clarins.
From Givenchy, Ambre Tigré, “reimagined by artist Anna Borowski in an ephemeral collaboration”: “Created in a marriage of olfactory art made by the House of Givenchy and the creations of the talented designer, a collaboration rich in escapism and poetry, the warm and enchanting world of this divine scent opens with notes of sweet and sensual amber. Cistus labdanum is revealed with animalic and herbaceous notes to softly mingle with sweet, balsamic vanilla. Presented in a bottle that depicts a miniature cabinet of curiosities, gently spritz to savour in this luminous, mesmerising fragrance.” £1,100 for 100 ml Eau de Parfum at Harrods in the UK…
He also created one of the first “celebrity fragrances,” L’Interdit (French for “forbidden”), designed initially for and later endorsed by [Audrey] Hepburn. “We never had a contract, like other designers do,” Mr. Givenchy told the Chicago Tribune in 1989. “We only had love and that is why it worked so well.”
— Hubert de Givenchy passed away this weekend at the age of 91. Read more at Hubert de Givenchy, French clothing designer who transformed Audrey Hepburn into a style legend, dies at 91 at The Washington Post, and/or see In Memoriam: Hubert de Givenchy’s Best Looks in Vogue.