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Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2012, part 17

Posted by Robin on 19 September 2012 18 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.

Stella McCartney Print Editions 2012

From Stella McCartney, another trio of “Print Editions” of the original Stella Eau de Parfum (you can see the 2011 trio here): “Taken from the runway, each 30ml collector bottle is dressed in a geometric print from the Stella McCartney 2012 summer collection.” £38 each at Selfridges in the UK…

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Stella McCartney Stella Summer Rose ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 17 February 2012 9 Comments

Stella McCartney Stella Summer Rose

Stella McCartney will launch Stella Summer Rose in April. Stella Summer Rose is a flanker to 2003’s Stella, and presumably replaces the annual summer version of Stella Sheer…

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Stella McCartney L.I.L.Y ~ perfume review

Posted by Robin on 16 February 2012 77 Comments

Stella McCartney L.I.L.Y advert

British designer Stella McCartney can hardly be accused of flooding the (perfume) market with product. Her first pillar fragrance, Stella, launched in 2003. She has followed up with a series of variations and flankers, but has not done another pillar scent until this year. The new one is L.I.L.Y, reportedly named for her father Paul McCartney’s nickname for her mother — LILY, for Linda I Love You. The name also refers to the scent’s lily of the valley note; according to McCartney…

I love lily of the valley; I find it to be breathtakingly beautiful. It’s also a very innocent looking flower, with a real freshness to it. I love that it blooms only fleetingly, in Spring, and that it grows in the shade, not in direct sunlight. It is fragile and innocent and delicate, yet it also has this sharp green leaf contrast. How to capture all that in a fragrance was a real challenge […] I know it’s not particularly contemporary, and I wanted to modernise it.1

And modernize it she has…

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Girl in grassy field with perfume bottle

Posted by Robin on 25 January 2012 11 Comments

A short & quiet 'behind the scenes' for the new L.I.L.Y by Stella McCartney.

Stella McCartney L.I.L.Y ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 9 December 2011 24 Comments

Stella McCartney L.I.L.Y

Designer Stella McCartney will launch L.I.L.Y, her second pillar fragrance, in 2012. The name comes from her father Paul McCartney’s nickname for his first wife, Linda McCartney (Linda I Love You). It also references the new scent’s lily of the valley note…

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