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.
Strictly speaking these aren't collector bottles and I don't know if the set is limited edition (so why is it here? I suppose because it had nowhere else to go), but By Kilian will launch a coffret in February with 7.5 ml bottles of all eight of the fragrances in the L’Oeuvre Noire / Black Masterpiece collection. 95€. (via marieclaire.fr)
Marc Jacob's ever-popular Daisy fragrance in the Garland edition, featuring blue daisies on the cap and a blue & white daisy garland. In 50 ml Eau de Toilette, due to launch in February. (via moodiereport)
From Guerlain, the iconic Mitsouko fragrance in a special limited edition bottle to celebrate the fragrance's 90th anniversary: "Mitsouko is 90 this year! To mark the occasion, Guerlain is offering a limited, numbered edition of 14 bottles of Extract in Baccarat crystal decorated with an original jewel in jade and pearls. Only 5 of these will be sold in the United States." Pretty, no? 450 ml, $7000, available for pre-order at Neiman Marcus.
From Donna Karan, DKNY Be Delicious Fresh Blossom in the Delicious Art edition. $55 at Dillards.
From Estee Lauder, Beautiful in an Eau de Parfum Purse Spray: "From the Beautiful Celebration Limited Edition Collection. Fall in love all over again with the fragrance of a thousand flowers. This golden Purse Spray is perfectly sized to take anywhere. The gleaming design evokes a timeless heirloom. Comes filled, and with 1 refill." $80 at Estee Lauder.
Ohhhh… that Mitsouko is beautiful! Good thing I don’t like Mitsouko. 😉 (And there are so many other things I could do with $7,000.)
Yep, counting blessings today.
Yep — I’d take the cash.
The money would come in handy. Think of all the fragrances one could buy with $ 7000.00. That bottle is nice though.
For $7000 AND 450ml you REALLY gotta love Mitsouko a whole lot!
Great bottle and lots of juice for seven grand, but….. it’s the REFORMULATED juice!
I’m going to step up and say that if I won the lottery tomorrow, I’d buy that Mitsouko.
It’s mighty cute.
The Daisy bottle is cute, but I can’t smell it. It is gone the moment I spray it. Also from the bottle I smell nothing. The Mitsouko bottle is très chic, also is the price 😉
You’re probably anosmic to the musk in Daisy then.
The By Kilian coffret is relatively inexpensive, as compared to their fancy-pants boxed bottles; wonder if we’ll see some splits of those? By my calculations… ahem… each bottle is about $18 US.
If these get split up, I might have to reconsider that whole “No trying any By Kilians” mindset.
My guess is that there will be much split action 🙂
If you end up liking any of the by Kilians, you could buy one of their regular travel refill sets – they’re $70 for four .25 oz vials. Saks doesn’t enforce the whole “you have to have bought the expensive atomizer first” thing either.
And thank you for telling me about that, Cynthia. I was able to go on there and buy the travel refills as a gift for someone. TOTALLY affordable with the free shipping plus the new customer 10% off. In fact, I’m wishing I had stocked up.
lol – I guess I’ve mentioned that a *few* times since we found out how to get around buying the overpriced bottles. I’m trying to earn my enabler badge, you know. 😉
Oh, I think you’ve got the deluxe Swarovski crystal-encrusted enabler badge now! 😉
I have to say that I have really enjoyed the By Kilian samples that the gracious Miss Kitty sent me. Much, much better quality than I thought they’d be. I’d definitely be interested in splitting up some of these.
(rubs hands together… cackles…)
LOL! Ain’t if fun to enable someone? I know I love it. We need to hold an annual (semi-annual?) Enablers’ Awards Dinner.
Hmmm, I could go for an $18 bottle of Back to Black!
Ugh… I love that Mitsouko bottle, I love Mitsouko as well – and yet, the $7,000 price tag makes me want to punch someone at LMVH
It only makes me want to punch the people who can afford it. 😀
LOL…where’s the holiday cheer, ladies?
Nothing to do with the holidays, I’m just opposed to overpriced packaging in general. 🙂
I’m pretty sure that, even if I had the money, I wouldn’t spend it on a bottle. Heck, it costs more than my first car!
So am I, and I’m sure that’s more than my first car too. And it’s more than half the price of my last car, for that matter, which I bought new!
Maybe I need to see a better-quality image of that Mitsouko bottle than is coming through on my phone — that greenish “blob” around the neck is a little strange and affects the lines of the bottle. Again, I think part of it is the image quality I’m seeing.
Wish more houses would do more sets like the ByKilian. Nice.
The label makes it look like the Fleur de Lotus bottle.
Yes, it does!
And NM misspelled Mitsouko on the website! For $7,000 I want a proofreader to check copy. Hrrumpf.
LOL!
I was all excited at first because I thought it *was* Fleur de Lotus. I missed my chance with that one, and for reasons I can’t put my finger on, desperately wanted to try it.
It isn’t an ultra-sharp picture in any case, but those are pretty jade flowers…
Is the Daisy Garland edition suppose 2 b the Daisy In The Air?
You know, I’m really not sure: I’d heard Daisy in the Air edition had/ blue flowers, so they might well be one & the same thing.
I’m loving those little jade flowers on the Mitsuoko bottle. I wonder how genuine they are…hmmm. Might the jade material be the source of the steep price tag?
Re: Daisy….the garland bottles are cute…my fave color is blue. But no matter how hard I try to like the scent (multiple sprays at Sephora) it always leaves me empty. It smells too one dimensional on me. Can I dump out the juice and refill it with Amaranthine? Hehehe
LOL…Amaranthine with white vinyl flowers! Does not compute 😉
LOL, yeah I’m weird. Amaranthine seems the only obvious floral I like now. Would it be more suitable if the bottle is painted with swirly colors and topped with bananas instead of daisies?
You know, I recently went to my local SAKS and sniffed out the By Killians. I was kind of unimpressed. I guess maybe because I was trying them on strips but they didn’t do a thing for me there. I am kind of wanting to try their newest ones, though….
It isn’t my favorite line, although I do think they’re well done.
Even after trying them on skin, the only one that I liked enough to buy and wear was Back to Black. All of the rest of them were only “okay” – well done, but nothing that I needed.
The DK bottle kind of reminds me of Tickle deodorant back in the day, only shorter.
Don’t remember Tickle…what a funny name for a deodorant!
OMG, Tickle! I always thought it looked like a, uh, “personal massager.” 😉 A friend of mine didn’t remember Tickle, and when I showed her an old ad I found she screamed.
So does the By Kilian set include all of their original launches, just not the two newer ones? I’m a bit confused. But if it does, I am totally in on a split. All of them looked appealing. I just couldn’t get over the ridiculous packaging, but could totally get down with the splitting the set idea. 😉
I think it’s that whole collection…the original 6 + 2 new ones. (There are a total of 9 fragrances, but 1, I think it’s the Pure Oud, is a new collection: Arabian Nights)
Wow, that might be as close as we get to an affordable bottle of the Pure Oud!
Great. Thanks Robin. *ratchets up the want even higher*
I hope I was clear — pretty sure this means Pure Oud is NOT in this set.