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.
From Acqua di Parma, Iris Nobile Eau de Parfum in a 100 ml collector bottle etched with flowers (above left). $154 at Nordstrom…
Dolce & Gabbana have launched L'Eau The One, a lighter version of 2006's The One:
For women who demand to be the ‘ONE’ every day, Dolce & Gabbana introduces l’eau the one; the new, delicate eau de toilette version of the original eau de parfum…
In a sense, I was influenced by Après L'Ondée (1906). I love Guerlain fragrances, but I said to myself that, if I were to make Après L'Ondée today, it would be much lighter, airier, younger. Some pieces I wouldn't use. So Paris started as an imagined Après L'Ondée. Obviously, in Après L'Ondée, you don't have roses in the background, but I had the skeleton of a very creamy violet note. Then I worked on the rose to put with it.
That's perfumer Sophia Grojsman talking about the genesis of Yves Saint Laurent Paris (from Michael Edwards' Perfume Legends: French feminine fragrances, p. 200), her first fragrance. Paris debuted in 1983, and was the perfect fragrance for the time: I wore it, my mother wore it, some days it seemed like everyone wore it (and plenty of it, more about which below).
Paris opens fruity and bright and big, with a happy, optimistic air. The heart is lush, jammy roses softened by Grojsman's “creamy violet note”. Yves Saint Laurent had reportedly chosen the name Paris and the color pink before the fragrance was developed…
An ad spot for Yves Saint Laurent Paris.
Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent died today in Paris at the age of 71.
Read more:
Yves Saint Laurent, fashion icon, dies aged 71 (the Telegraph).
Fashion king Saint Laurent dies (the BBC)
Note: image via ysl.