Guerlain has launched La Petite Robe Noire Ma Première Robe, a limited edition flanker to collector bottle of the 2012 version of La Petite Robe Noire. The 2015 edition included stickers…
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles (& some other stuff) 2016, part 2
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 collector editions from Thierry Mugler and Guerlain; new travel sprays from Reminiscence Paris, plus new Eau de Toilette versions of Chloé Love Story and Jil Sander Simply.
From Thierry Mugler, Alien in the Divine Ornamentations edition: “Alien Divine Ornamentations goes beyond the gold overdose trend and projects gold from all angles. Mysterious and sensual, Alien is a floral-woody-amber blend of jasmine sambac with exotic cashmeran wood and white amber. This refillable limited edition bottle is subtly dressed in the noblest material. A cracked gold effect has been applied to the bottle emphasising the multiple facets making this limited edition an object of desire.” At Harrods in the UK, £69 for 60 ml Eau de Parfum…
Guerlain Pera Granita ~ new fragrance
The Shalimar Face-Off
Has everyone recovered from Friday’s group project of wearing Guerlain Shalimar? Today I’ll test your endurance with a Shalimar Face-off. For the past few days, I’ve been wearing different formulations and vintages of Shalimar to suss out their differences.
Before we start, let’s have a quick Shalimar refresher. Jacques Guerlain created Shalimar, and it launched in 1925. Its notes include bergamot, lemon, iris, jasmine, rose, vanilla, incense, opopanox, patchouli, musk and tonka bean. What you smell are chiefly Shalimar’s tent poles of lemon, vanilla and rotting squirrel. Wafting over these tent poles is a complex fabric smelling of incense, amber, tonka, opopanox, vetiver, musk and powder.
For the face-off, I dug out every concentration of Shalimar I had on hand: a 1970s Eau de Cologne, the sought-after 1980s Parfum de Toilette, a 1990s Eau de Parfum and a pre-1985 Extrait…
What a lady must never do, again
Model Fernanda Tavares for Guerlain Shalimar. We posted this video back in 2010 along with some discussion of the advertising from The New York Times.