From Kenzo, two Matryoshka dolls: at left, with a miniature bottle of L’Eau Par Kenzo Pour Femme, available at the US Kenzo website with purchases of $50 or more using coupon code 09GIFT, from December 8 – 14 only. At right, a doll with Kenzo Winter Flowers, available at Harrods in the UK for £46.50…
Lalique will launch Encre Noire Pour Elle, the feminine counterpart to 2006’s Encre Noire, in September. Encre Noire Pour Elle was developed by perfumer Christine Nagel:
Because Lalique does not spend on advertising, preferring instead to invest in the fragrance itself…
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.
At Colette in Paris, Viktor & Rolf’s Flowerbomb for Women (shown above left) and Antidote for Men in limited edition engraved and numbered bottles created for this summer’s retrospective at the Barbican Art Gallery in London…
Lalique will launch Lalique White, a new fresh citrus fragrance for men, this month.
Lalique White includes notes of lemon leaves, tamarind, bergamot, violet, white pepper, nutmeg, cardamom, amber, cedar and musk. It was developed by perfumer Christine Nagel, who noted that the spices “…contribute to the freshness of the scent”…
Early on in my career as a perfume addict, I made any number of buying-unsniffed blunders (my record was considerably worse than Kevin’s 2 out of 3), and eventually swore off the practice entirely. Well, almost entirely. I try. But at least once a year, I fall prey to uncontrollable, spur-of-the-moment yearnings. In 2006, I actually did a little worse than I’d remembered: I bought Hermès Elixir des Merveilles (didn’t like it, so swapped for a bottle of Eau des Merveilles) and a half-bottle of Sel de Vetiver by The Different Company (like it well enough, but not sure I would have purchased if I’d smelled it first). I might have even bought L’Artisan Dzongkha unsniffed, but I honestly can’t remember. Ah well, that one I love.
I thought I might make it through all of 2007 unscathed, but a few weeks ago I caved on a bottle of Encre Noire by Lalique…