Comments on: Bond no. 9 Saks New Orleans ~ new perfume

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:09:03 +0000

Glad to hear it smells nice!

By: parfumnut

parfumnut — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:54:56 +0000

All i am going to say…Gorgeous and to Die for………bottle and juice

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:00:04 +0000

They make these for Saks, who presumably do very well by them (and it will only be sold in NO). So I guess you could argue that anything that brings tourists into the city to shop is a good thing? But beyond that, I don’t think you can go looking for that kind of moral stance in the perfume industry, you just aren’t going to find it.

By: ppr

ppr — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:24:58 +0000

I was in NOLA a year and a half ago, and did a tiny bit of service work and certainly saw some of the areas that remain devastated. It really strikes me as inappropriate and distasteful to profit off the city’s name by selling $325 luxury items to tourists. Is Bond planning on making any donations to, say, nonprofits working on rebuilding this city, which our national government damaged (via the Army Corps of Engineers) and then abandoned in its time of need? Yes, I suppose the stores selling the perfume in New Orleans will pay some income taxes to the city, but what about all the other bottles that will get out in the market?

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:43:56 +0000

Thanks!

By: angelainthesky

angelainthesky — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:32:55 +0000

I couldn’t agree more! I love NO, but haven’t been back since Katrina either. I usually have a mixture of images when I think of NO, of good food, wonderful music, mystical architecture, floods, rotten politics, buganvilleas, magnolias and yes the river. The Bond perfume just doesn’t seem complex and strong enough to capture NO for me and at $325 per 100 ml, I don’t think I’ll come close to it.

By: kikiduck

kikiduck — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:19:32 +0000

I agree that the bottle is reminescent of a football helmet (well, a football helmet without crystals), but the fleur de lys has long been associated with French royalty. Also, dating from about the 14th century, the three petals fleur de lys often represented the Trinity, and lilies have oftten be depicted in Christian religious art (Easter lilies, e.g.). Now, having said that, I hope the frag is scrumptious at that price!

By: NinaraPoll

NinaraPoll — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:04:20 +0000

They forgot the magnolia, azalea, mold, stagnant swamp water, and that unique industrial/organic reek that issues forth from the Mississippi River. (Sorry for the snark… but those notes sound NOTHING like the Nawlins I visited frequently with my parents in the 80s [I grew up in Baton Rouge]!)

By: miss kitty v.

miss kitty v. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:52:02 +0000

Is that a euphemism?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:08:51 +0000

Sorry, Robin! I know I can’t stop talking about it. I really, really enjoyed the city’s “personality” – its architecture, its history, its energy, its people. And, yes, its food. Hah. I’m going to write reports on shopping at Hove’ and Bourbon French one of these days…