Coming next month from Nina Ricci: Love by Nina, a new limited edition flanker to 2006′s Nina fragrance for women (see also: last year’s Nina Pretty fragrance).
The original Nina fragrance has been reworked by perfumer Olivier Cresp, who transformed the apple notes with the additions of frangipani and almond-flavored cherry blossoms.
I’ll add sizes & concentration when I can find them. (via vogue.fr)
Other recent launches from Nina Ricci: L’Air du Printemps.
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They ripped off the Twilight bottle! Someone should sue them!
I can't believe I'm saying this, but that bottle is actually very, very pretty. Very pretty indeed.
It is pretty, isn't it? I think I could convince myself I like the notes too.
Almond-flavored cherry blossoms? Come ON!!
It is a pretty bottle.
it sure is a nice bottle. and no need to worry, nina ricci did already do the sueing. i just wish the juice was anything i could like, but it's not. and this new one doesn't really give any hope…
I'm not much for buying juice just for the pretty bottle, but I might have to break that rule for this one. I don't know why – they all sit in the dark and often still in their boxes. Sigh… maybe when it hits the discounters.
LOL!
I have to say, I had been getting just a little sick of elegant, minimalist bottles that you could sell olive oil in. Pretty and fun is a good thing.
Pyramus, Twilight is probably already in the process of filing a suit.
I like this one better than the original red too.
Everybody puts almond in the cherry these days, seems like. But I'd like it better if they left out the apple, myself…
Agree!
as much as I love to EAT apples, I have zero desire to smell like one….sour? tangy? don't think so……however it is a very cute bottle…..not that I'm influenced by the bottle mind you….. today I'm busy sniffing my wrist which is covered in Bond no9 Chinatown….now there's some interesting juice (don't need a bottle though).
On an aside: last week's triple lazy wednesday poll has been a real smash! so very many posts—another poll would be such fun (hint hint hint)
[Stretches, shrugs] I dunno. Apple isn't something I want to smell like, and cherry marzipan doesn't push my buttons either. All three of those notes have never reached a really good imitation in the synthetics, that marzipan note can smell like Play-Doh or plastic doll head. Think I'll pass, even if it's in an adorable bottle.
I'll try to do an open thread every month — it really was popular!
Cherry almond says Bakewell Tart to me – no thanks!
I usually like play doh. But not with apple.
I'd rather have the Chinatown bottle!
Well, yeah, then there's that.
i like the original nina apple. well see with this one. i just bought pretty nina and nina plain. both without ever smelling so im hoping for the best. i havent heard any description on nina plain anywhere. its in a green bottle. i got both in the 2.7oz for $25 dollars each so its not a major lost if i dont love them. i sure hope i do though!
I've never heard of “Nina Plain”!
i got nina pretty and nina plain in the mail the other day. their both nice but their nothing special. nina plain smells just like be delicious. oh and i just found love by nina on sephora.com. i hope its better then pretty and plain. sephora has alot of new stuff.
They're basic apple scents, & kind of doubt Love by Nina will be much more than that. Pretty bottles though! I must have been brain dead for my last comment — didn't understand “Nina Plain” but you meant just “regular” Nina, I'm sure.
theres one actually called “nina plain”. its in a green bottle. i know, i had never heard of it either. ive looked but found no info on it what so ever on the internet. its notes are a mystery to me but it pretty much smells like dkny be delicious.
Odd, had never heard of it!
this is a little weird. i sent nina ricci a message about “nina plain”, asking them for any info about it, and i just got a message back from them saying that it was never a nina ricci scent. its weird because it came in a box just like nina and nina pretty. the bottle is exactly like them as well. nothing about it looks fake to me. i dont know what to think.
Very weird! What does it say on the label beneath the bottle?
same thing as nina pretty. “parfums nina ricci paris made in france-nina eau de toilette vaporisateur spary 80 ml 2.7 fl oz.”
oh and the box says “copyright nina ricci perfums 2005″.
jonr951, that is so odd. But the box says clearly “Nina Plain”?
yeah, “Nina Plain”. its a mystery!
Really weird. You should mail them the box.
DESIGN HOUSE – Nina Ricci
YEAR INTRODUCED – 1987
FRAGRANCE NOTES – a rich aroma of florals, fruit and woodsy greens.
RECOMMENDED USE – casual
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NINA perfume by Nina Ricci
GOOGLE THE PERFUME NINA HAD THIS DESIGN SINCE 1987, TWILIGHT STOLE THE DESIGN.
I think that’s what everyone has already agreed, but the 1987 Nina bottle was different.