Keiko Mecheri has launched two new fragrances and introduced new packaging.
Umé (see bottle at right) features notes of persimmon, peach tree leaves, bergamot, yellow mandarin, Japanese wisteria, tree peonies, camellia sasanka, South Sea jasmine, Chinese osmanthus, spices, Hinoki wood, Cambodian mahogany, patchouli, Mousse Poivree and tanned suedes. Mihimé has notes of hawthorn petals, bergamot, violet leaves, rose petals, ylang ylang, narcissus, peach, amber, white musk, Tahitian vanilla and heliotrope.
The fragrances are available now at lacremebeauty and run $80 for 75 ml.
Also new at lacremebeauty: Immaginal Beyond Forever, with gardenia, Italian bergamot, narcisse, tuberose, ylang ylang, jasmine, orange blossom and musk.
The bottle features 10K gold overlay and portrays the goddess Hathor.
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Both KMs sound wonderful. It's good that La Creme has a sample program now
I already love Loukhoum, Damascena, and Gourmandises, and these sound beautiful as well. I can't really “imagine” them from the note descriptions, however, so I'm looking forward to sampling them.
Yep!
15 notes coming at you all at once! I'm fatigued just reading. Sounds great, but I'm expecting to be mowed down by a mac truck soon as the stopper comes off.
I'm speechless…$265 for 1.8oz of Beyond Forever! It would have to give me multiple orgasms for that price.
I know what you mean, but the vast majority of fragrances have way more notes than that, they just don't bother to list them. I'd rather see a detailed list than a hugely abbreviated list
The packaging looks fabulous…and given the gold overlay, I'd say you're paying for that as much as the juice. It is probably out of my price range…but at least it is cheaper than JAR, LOL!
And anyway, I have Musc Ravageur for the multiple Os
. You know why this bottle really frustrates me? Because it's opaque – you can't see how much juice is left (unless it's transparent at the back). It's the same with the gorgeous Silver Rain bottle, and the fancy 'special' Creed bottles. I really like to SEE the liquid sloshing around. Are the JAR bottles opaque/metallic/encrusted with diamonds?
No, the JAR bottles are clear.
The immaginal isn't terrible, but so not worth what they're asking for it, unless a person just wants the pretty bottle and the inner Goddess harmonic tunining this allegedly gives you.
Thanks! I wasn't disparaging *your* entry; I'm just trying to juggle all those notes in my head and guess which ones will be most prominent.
If I remember correctly, the JAR bottles that they use to let you try the fragrances are fairly plain glass…but come to think of it, I don't know if those are the same packaging as what they actually sell. Good question.
I would love to see that packaging in person, it sounds wonderful — but as I said, I'd guess this is way out of my price range
Hey, no worries! I only copy over the notes…La Creme gave much better descriptions.
Visit me in Seattle and we'll go to LaCreme together! I would like my inner Goddess to be more outer. xoxo
“Hathor was an ancient goddess, worshipped as a cow-deity”…well, ok, it said a lot of other more poetic things about her relating to the Milky Way etc., but if I'm going to wear an expensive perfume I'd rather it did not have a bovine association to it.
But I suppose the reference is obscure enough not to hurt the marketing.
LOL — yes, stick with the milky way and motherhood references
I wish!! Would love to meet you — some day we'll manage it, I would bet. And of course would love to see La Creme & meet Autumn.
someone bought ume for me as a gift. everytime i wear it i get compliments. it's been my fall fragrance…i hated angel, always did. so…i'm not sure i would have bought it for myself, but obviously it works and i've enjoyed it.
I tried it only briefly and it wasn't my favorite of the KM line, but I should give it another go. Glad you're enjoying your gift