JonOne collaborates with Guerlain to make limited edition fragrance bottles.
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles (& some other stuff) 2015, part 30
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 Guerlain, Jean Patou and Clinique, plus a new hair perfume in Viktor & Rolf’s Bonbon.
From Guerlain, 1 liter bee bottles decorated by street artist JonOne. The blue bottle holds Shalimar in Extrait; the pink bottle holds La Petite Robe Noire in Extrait; the orange bottle holds Rose Barbare in Eau de Parfum. €9000 each, due to launch in January…
Holiday fragrance gifts 2015, part 8
As always, we have saved the luxury edition for last, and once again the items are listed in order from what-a-bargain to holy-cow-you’ve-got-to-be-kidding.
L’Artisan Parfumeur’s ever popular Mûre et Musc Extrême in a limited edition 100 ml bottle made in collaboration with Éric de Meyer of the Château de Versailles. 30 bottles were made, €195 (about $215) at Printemps Haussman in Paris…
5 perfumes: Euphoria
It has been said of great poetry — as well as of pornography, of course — that you know it when you see it. A few perfumes have struck me with an analogous revelatory force.1 Many of my favorites have crept up on me, gaining in beauty and mystery over the course of several exposures. In a small number of cases, though, a first encounter with a fragrance has been more like being within 50 feet of a lightning strike: no immediate definition or description does the matter justice. Since my perfume hobby started, I’ve watched the epiphanies of several of my fellow fume-heads. Upon processing the first sniff, two enthusiasts have wept. One friend laughed in surprise, and another pirouetted. My reaction to such new love is to blush beet-red, regardless of whether there is anyone around to witness my surrender. Apparently, if I am greatly moved, my sympathetic nervous system must become involved.
Does it say something about me that I have spent a great deal of time ruminating on these singular events, trying to identify a unifying thread? (Short answer: yes.) In fact, I have noticed there are similarities between my own heart-struck moments…
Movember
Guerlain is supporting Movember with barber events at selected locations (probably only in France, but I did not verify), with 100% of the proceeds going to Movember France. Yes, that's Thierry Wasser.