Have any extra cash lying around? Clive Christian has released a limited edition bottle of his no. 1 scent:
But the limited edition is no ordinary fragrance: It’s bottled in custom-designed Baccarat crystal flacons, which feature 18-karat gold necks inset with five-carat diamonds.
10 bottles were produced, two have been sold so far. The price? $250,000…
Thierry Mugler launched Cologne, his third fragrance, in 2001. Mugler reportedly wanted to recreate the smell of skin after using a certain soap that he had brought back from a trip to Morocco; Cologne was developed by nose Alberto Morillas and features notes of bergamot, neroli, petitgrain, orange blossom, white musk, and a secret, trademarked note called “S”.
Cologne starts with sharp green notes and citrus, and quickly settles into a soapy-clean scent. A bit of green remains, and it is very fresh and crisp, with light undertones of orange blossom and wood. Once the sharpness of the top notes fades, it is basically linear, and the lasting power is very good although it stays relatively close to the skin…
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...this one from model Niki Taylor, who will launch her first scent, Begin by Niki Taylor, in September. (via Women's Wear Daily)
Chandler Burr is the author of Emperor of Scent, the fascinating book about Luca Turin and his theory of smell. He is also the New York Times writer on scent. You can read his articles about perfume on his website, and you can also take a look at his 10 favorite fragrances.
If you have not read Emperor of Scent, you might also want to look at this interview with Chandler Burr for the website parfumessence.
You came to appreciate fragrance while working on the Emperor of Scent. Can you recall a few of the perfumes that initially captivated you?
I was fascinated and a bit disturbed at first by the degree to which I *didn’t like—couldn’t access, didn’t understand— some of the perfumes that Luca loves, specifically the classic Guerlains and Carons: l’Heure Bleue, Shalimar, Après l’Ondée, Vol de Nuit. These are the olfactory equivalents of 19th century French literature—smelling Chamade today is in almost every aesthetic sense identical to reading Stendhal today: the sentiments, reference points, emphases, and values all differ from those (or those most common) of our time, and you can find yourself lost. They require work. I’ve spent years with them, and I’ll never have an instinctive love of them. I don’t like Hugo either. Too much *stuff. But I can, now, appreciate their construction and their importance…