Still more limited edition collector fragrance bottles for holiday 2007 (if you missed the first posts, see Bunch o' limited edition collector bottles and Bunch o' limited edition collector bottles, part 2). Please note that a few of these may not be available in the US.
Pretty in leather: Prada's eponymous Eau de Parfum in a pink leather sheath. 80 ml for $250 at Nordstrom. If you want something even more so, Neiman Marcus has a version in purple crocodile for $550…
It's that time of year: tons of fragrance coffret sets and limited edition collector bottles for holiday gift giving. Here are just a few of the collector bottles available this year. In most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, only the bottle is worth getting excited over (or not).
Please note that a few of these may not be available in the United States…
From Yves Saint Laurent, theYoung Sexy Lovely Collector Edition. $60 for 50 ml at sephora…
Perfumers Jacques Cavallier and Olivier Cresp talk about the making of the new fragrance from Yves Saint Laurent, Elle YSL. Avid perfumistas will recognize the perfumers from press pictures, but oddly enough they are not identified until the film is over. As the film begins, Jacques Cavallier is on the left; Olivier Cresp on the right.
Courtesy of YouTube, in French with English subtitles. Elle has launched in France, and is expected to launch in the United States next year.
At the elleysl page at YouTube, you can also watch the new commercial for Elle starring model Coco Rocha.
Yves Saint Laurent will launch their latest fragrance for women, Elle Yves Saint Laurent, in Second Life on October 1 at 8 pm. You can watch a brief teaser of the installation, which will be dedicated to art in Second Life, at ysl-elle….
One day Pucci mentioned that she loved the smell of a place in Turkey where the coast fell into the sea and the trees almost had their roots in the seawater, a mix of wood, sea breeze and fresh air, so Demachy specified patchouli and vetiver for the woody signature and certain synthetic molecules for the scent of the ocean. He kept its chypre heritage but twisted it in a modern way, finally adding galbanum to the top of the scent’s structure to make it less “tender.”
— Columnist Chandler Burr traces the history of Pucci’s Vivara fragrance in Back in Print in yesterday’s New York Times…