Van Cleef & Arpels will launch Féerie, a new fragrance for women, this coming August.
The scent will be a woody floral with violet developed by perfumer Antoine Maisondieu.
Féerie is aimed at the luxury market and will be priced higher than other fragrances in the Van Cleef & Arpels line. The bottle features “a tall sculpture in zamac of a fairy on a branch”. It will be exclusive to Neiman Marcus in the United States, and will be available in 50 and 100 ml. (via cosmeticnews) Update: the notes for Féerie include violet, red berries, mandarin, rose, jasmine, iris and vetiver; the bottle was inspired by Van Cleef & Arpels’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream jewelry collection. (via neimanmarcus) Another update: see a review of Van Cleef & Arpels Féerie.
Other recent launches from Van Cleef & Arpels: First Premier Bouquet.
As previously reported, we’re expecting the launch of John Galliano’s “DNA in scent form” later this year. A few more details: the fragrance will launch in October but will not reach the United States until 2009.
The fragrance is described as “sweet, light and floral” and the notes include rose, lavender, bergamot, violet and amber. (via wwd, vogue.co.uk)
Update: the John Galliano signature fragrance will be a modern floral aldehydic scent developed by perfumers Christine Nagel and Aurélien Guichard, and is intended as “an olfactory voyage of [Galliano's] ideal girl”. The “official” notes, so far, include rose, peony, iris, violet, patchouli, amber. It will be available in 40, 60 and 90 ml Eau de Parfum and in matching body products; look for it in September at Harrods. (via wwd, cosmeticnews)
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'Sweet, light and floral'??? John Galliano? I'm speechless. Next we'll be hearing that the notes include pink pepper and lychee.
Yep! I have a feeling I'll stick with Diptyque's Essence of John Galliano.
John Galliano's DNA in scent form? Eeuwks not for me!!
The Féerie fragrance sounds appealing. Violet is my favourite fower.
Exclusive to the US?
LOL!
No, worldwide, including Asia.
Impressive bottle….fairy sculpture! trying to make all the plain sculpture-free bottles feel dowdy…
That is a pretty bottle…. -makes grabby hands-
I don't see Galliano as a light, floral person…. But, at least there isn't any fruit mentioned! That's something, right?
It is impressive, but not appealing to me for some reason. Not even sure I could say why. Just as well!
Well, it isn't a complete list of notes, but fruit or no fruit, it doesn't sound very hopeful to me — was really hoping he'd be the first to follow his own tastes, which by all accounts are represented by the Diptyque, which he apparently truly did design to suit.
The bottom half of the bottle is just beautiful. Then they stick these twigs on top and plop a fairie on one of them. It is so ridiculous to me. I may have to own this, just because it weirdly appeals to me.
I just hope it is a lovely fragrance.
You'd think his fragrance would be crazy, not some pretty, sweet bouquet. It just seems so disappointing. Reading your review for Diptyque's fragrance does, in fact, seem like a Galliano creation. Oh well. We wait.
Wait…shouldn't VC&A calls a fairly “Kindly One” (or the French equivalent) in order to avoid pissing the fairy off? The kindly one on the bottle looks really angry.
John Galliano's “DNA”? I hope this is a metaphor. If they mean it that I wouldn't want to touch it. I don't want to look (and smell) that fierce.
Yes, maybe that's it — the top does not look like it belongs to the bottom, or something?
We could use a little crazy, too…don't need another sweet rose-y floral.
Does he look fierce? I always just think he looks slightly silly. Or maybe I've just been influenced by The Manolo.
I don't understand the “kindly one” reference — are you not supposed to call a fairy a fairy?
Ah, but crazy doesn't market well. A shame, I know.
Sad but true!
Woody violet sounds nice, and I think the bottle is pretty cool-looking. Nice name, too.
It's from Luca Turin's review in “Perfume: The Guide” (forgot which one he was reviewing). Yes, some fairy specialists think calling a fairy a fairy will anger s/he. I once picked up a serious book on fairy summoning (at Chapters of all places) and it said that, at all time, a fairy must be referred to as a kindly one or s/he will do nasty stuff to you. I'm not joking here.
That perhaps makes this one too dangerous to own !
Woody violet sounds perfect, I agree!
Comforting, sprightly violet…a sure beacon of idyllic dreams in an economic downturn. Or a shift of marketing, primarily toward a growing Asian base that prefers soft, whispery scents. The fact that the note of violet is an idea of mixed essences, rather than a directly molecular capture, always made it seem a bit magical and elusive—if unapproachable—to me. With the exception of fern, violet could be the quintessential “woodland fairy” note. For years I found it super-sweet and rather disconcerting; for some reason, it's recently grown on me. Some of the modern violets I've tested smell more musky and velvety than pinchy-sweet. I liked how Les Nez approached violet in “The Unicorn Spell”.
The Unicorn Spell is a really great scent, agree! Have a feeling this will be less “ethereal”, but actually that scent would fit with this bottle just fine.
I have to agree, this bottle strongly and oddly beckons to me, enough so that I am considering buying unsniffed! *gasps!* It's as though someone has thrown a fistful of fairy dust in my face. Perhaps a good sneeze will clear my sense AND mind? lol.
Or should I say … “Feerie” dust? *Smirks*
This one would be an expensive mistake…hope you'll get over the fairy dust
Just got my VISA bill for this month — I'm over it. LOL!!
That usually works
I received a sample of Feerie from Neiman Marcus last week, and if I had to try to describe how this “violet, vetiver, and Egyptian jasmine” fragrance smells, I would say…blackberry cream soda. It's high pitched and fruit sour with only a faint vanilla-like softness to restrain the berry tartness. Some of the berry sent dissipates as it dries down, but it's still not for me.
I still haven't tried it on skin. On paper, thought it was nice, but not good enough to live up to its bottle
Will John Galliano ever launch in the US? I’ve been dying to try it. I luv his designs so Im hoping to luv his scent. : )
Sorry to say I don’t know! They originally said 2009, so the fact that it didn’t ever happen might mean that it did not sell as well as expected.
so haven’t you smelled John Galliano
does anyone know what it smells similar to ?
I haven’t had the chance to smell it :/
I went in Harvey Nichols yesterday while I was out shopping and came across John Galliano, I was so suprised to find it. since we’d already been in other department stores my arms were full from testing so I sprayed on my friends cardigan arm so I got a little hint of it mixed with her scent.
I don’t know what bulgarian rose smells like, but thats what this brings to mind and I think its one of the notes.
so this to me is a rose perfume with a twist. its very different and quirky, not quite Vivienne Westwood Boudoir quirky but “normal” enough to wear though I’m not sure I would wear it until I test it again next time I go in HN.
the bottle also looks better in real life. I don’t normally go for rose scents but I do quite like John Galliano and it’s the first “rose” scent I’ve come acroos to smell anything like roses.
I don’t know if they do the new one that looks like a letter as I was caught up in finding this one but I’ll have a look for it. they do the new edt of this one though which I didnt smell but the bottle doesn’y look very nice.
I also found I like Miss Dior Chérie better after yesterday.
ooh HN do Wonderwood, 888 and number2 from Comme Des Garcons. I sniffed the bottle of wonderwood and it did make me think of wood but it doesnt smell like the real bark of a tree lol, they didnt have an 888 bottle or I would have sniffed that too.