Tom Ford will launch the Private Blend Les Extraits Verts collection, with four fragrances: Vert d’Encens, Vert de Bois, Vert Bohème and Vert de Fleur. The new scents are described as “daring and intoxicating interpretations of perfumery’s classic ‘green’ note”…
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 bottles from Tom Ford, Sisley, Yves Saint Laurent and Thierry Mugler; plus a new concentration of Versace Eros Femme.
From Tom Ford, a limited edition of Black Orchid, with the bottle by Lalique (there was a version of this when Black Orchid first launched in 2006, and perhaps they are identical). $990 for (15 ml?) Parfum, available now for pre-order at Tom Ford…
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 limited edition solid perfume compacts from Estée Lauder and Tom Ford; a collector bottle from Jo Malone; plus a new concentration of Gucci Bamboo.
From Estée Lauder, two compacts created by luxury jewelry designer Monica Rich Kosann. At left, the Pleasures Glittering Globe, and at right, the Pleasures Loving Frog. $275 each at Neiman Marcus…
The appeal of the indie and niche fragrance market still had yet to reach the mainstream consumer then, both in terms of mind and wallet share. This was a time when designer fragrances were flourishing (Narciso Rodriguez For Her and Euphoria Calvin Klein both received Women’s Prestige Fragrance Foundation Awards in 2006) and the popularity of celebrity scents was at an all-time high. While people like Frederic Malle and Serge Lutens were first to blaze a trail with niche fragrances, Ford was arguably the first to take artisanal fragrances and grow them on a significant scale. He turned niche into mainstream.
— Women's Wear Daily writes about the Tom Ford beauty behemoth, which is "expected to hit $1 billion in sales by 2020", in Tom Ford Beauty: Lauder’s Next Blockbuster. Look for a bunch of products celebrating Black Orchid's 10th anniversary this summer, including a solid perfume in Velvet Orchid and a Lalique edition of Black Orchid.
Tom Ford will launch Orchid Soleil, a new feminine fragrance in the Tom Ford Signature line, in July. Orchid Soleil is a ‘summer facet’ of 2006’s Black Orchid, and follows 2014’s Velvet Orchid…