More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimer: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special”.
At Nordstrom, La Prairie’s Silver Rain in “in three exquisite shades—purple, blue and chartreuse—for a limited time only”. $85 for 30 ml, concentration unknown…
Rose Alexandrie and Vétiver Babylone have joined Giorgio Armani's Armani Privé line under the name “Les Eaux Armani Privé”.
Armani Privé Rose Alexandrie, shown, “invites you to discover the fragile strength of Alexandrie legendary gardens”. The notes include bergamot, Italian mandarin, neroli, yellow mimosa, rose and benzoin…
Here are a few of the limited edition collector fragrance bottles that have launched since we last did a round-up for the 2007 holiday season. In most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special”. Also note that a few of these may not be available in the US.
At Sephora, Yves Saint Laurent's Baby Doll. The “special, limited-edition bottle features the signature faceted crystal bottle shaped like a spinning top, with sweet, romantic graphics and a silver stopper”, 50 ml for $52…
A well-chosen fragrance can become a distinguishing characteristic. It is the first thing that people sense when you enter a room and the last thing as you leave.
— Giorgio Armani, quoted in Armani's code in the UK Times Online.
When Now Smell This first announced the release of Armani Privé Eclat de Jasmin, the blog quoted the Giorgio Armani website, saying “Eclat de Jasmin was created to represent dawn – the particular time of the day when jasmine flowers are warmed by the sun, releasing their deep, rich scent.” From this description I imagined a dew-like, non-indolic jasmine: fresh, liquid, and quiet.
Maybe because I don’t live where dawn is ever warm enough to draw the scent from jasmine, but Eclat de Jasmin feels like the late afternoon of a summer day to me…