The vivid crimson Etoile de Hollande rose

Posted by Robin on 24 September 2019 10 Comments

Rose & Cuir’s origin story begins in a verdant garden planted more than 70 years ago by Edmond Roudnitska, the perfumer behind such midcentury masterpieces as Diorella and Diorissimo, outside his Côte d’Azur studio. It was there that Roudnitska first smelled the vivid crimson Etoile de Hollande rose that inspired him to create Rose de Rochas for couturier Marcel Rochas in 1949, and there that, in 2018, Roudnitska’s son Michel happened to wave that long-discontinued eau under the discerning nostrils of [Frédéric] Malle and [Jean-Claude] Ellena.

— Read more at Jean-Claude Ellena Is the Picasso of Perfume at Town & Country.

Straight to the point

Posted by Robin on 19 September 2019 12 Comments

Frédéric Malle and perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena talk about Rose & Cuir.

Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2019, part 4

Posted by Robin on 10 September 2019 16 Comments

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 Cartier, Frédéric Malle, Guerlain, Goutal Paris and Calvin Klein.

New limited edition bottles of Cartier La Panthère to celebrate the scent’s 5th anniversary. At Nordstrom; both are listed as Eau de Parfum (which seems unlikely), in 25 and 75 ml…

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