House of Sillage is the new California-based niche line of Nicole Mather; Tiara is their debut limited edition fragrance.
This unique scent, exuding Madagascan vanilla, Sri Lankan cinnamon, and Calabrian green tangerine, is presented in a stunning bottle adorned with opulent Swarovski stones.
In a world consumed by mass-‐produced items of generic quality, House of Sillage returns to the essential elements that define luxury. Founder Nicole Mather focuses intently on distinguishing every detail in a House of Sillage product, ranging from the rare and exotic ingredients to the extraordinary aesthetic appeal. Each numbered bottle of Tiara parfum is a treasured and collectable work of art. “I admire the brilliance of scent, and how it can transport you to another place and time,” Mather explains.
Tiara was developed by perfumer Francis Camail; additional notes include rose.
House of Sillage Tiara is available in 75 ml Parfum for $1200. It can be purchased at the House of Sillage website.
(via press release)
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Sounds marvellous, adore that bottle. Not sure I have a spare $1200, though.
Nor do I.
since I’m the first, I won’t write anything disparaging about the bottle, but I am thinking very loudly
oh well, I’m not the first then… 2 teams, pro and con bottle, who’s going to win?
I’m on your team, but guessing we’ll see some of both.
Oh my lord, I am on your team, Bee.
Joining Team Bee. That’s a mighty lot of bling for my taste.
And to me, the “essential elements that define luxury” tend to be things like “hand-made” and “custom” (or “bespoke” for my British friends).
Definitely con here – to me it looks fussy, like a knick-knack in a glass case that no one is ever allowed to touch. I suspect that most of the $1,200 is tied up in that crystal though….
I’m on the con bottle team. Also thinking loudly. This is a very diplomatic, polite day.
Is that your kittie, Jonette? So cute! Let’s all just concentrate on our furry friends today – to coin a phrase, they really are worth it, unlike some perfumes.
I saw my first red squirrel today, I have never seen such a cute furry animal. It ran up to me and chattered at me. (There was also a cat present – I fancied it was trying to warn me about the cat danger, not realising that I had a big advantage over the cat). It was a very cute day.
And not so furry also. My new ball python is so adorable. He’s my little baby boy!
Thanks, Jillie. Yes, that’s one of my four kitties. This one is Nanki-Poo, a Thai (European traditional Siamese) when he was a kitten.
I bloody wish that these lines would stop returning to the “elements that define luxury” and concentrate on scent. Call me the 99% perfume guy…
LOL…. I’m with ya xendawg!
I love that.
I personally don’t care for the bottle. It’s not a bad bottle. It just does not visually appeal to me. It looks like a glorified cupcake.
I don’t like the name HOUSE of SILLAGE. ugh. It seems kind of blah and corporate.
Bah-humbug. ;0
~Dawn
I agree about the name. It implies that it only produces high-volume sillage monsters. It doesn’t make me want any of their fragrances, as I would be driven out of my office by the sillage-haters.
I do love that bottle, though. I’m assuming you have to pull the top off to get to the atomizer.
Only one thing comes to my mind when I look at the bottle and the name of the house:
HOUSE OF SILLY-AGE
Haha, good one.
That’s for sure!
Ha ha!
In this day and age, this kind of manufactured luxury seems in the poorest taste. Just my opinion.
At least they don’t claim it’s laden with Swarofsky crystals…….
They seem to have become the ne plus ultra of tacky.
oh my bad- it IS laden with Swarofsky crystals.
Boo
so so, you’re changing teams now?
How DARE they bring us 75 mls of extrait from top notch ingredients in a bottle so beautiful it would create family feuds during the reading of the will. Yes, by all means bring us more generic Glade in futuristic lucite bottles. If I had that much money, I’d buy it in a heartbeat (right after I sold my kidney and bought the 900 ml. bottle of Chanel Gardenia extrait)!
I imagine this is what Jessica Simpson would come up with if she for some reason decided to try her hand at high end perfume: the name, the brand, the bottle… for the truly fancy lady.
lol – yes, it’s trying way too hard to be truly classy.
I think everyone else has already said everything that came to my mind, haha, but yea… my first reaction was pretty much: o_______O;
The scent sounds nice, but not $1200 worth of nice. The crystal top looks like a muffin or cupcake cozy for protecting your muffins or cupcakes.
They better throw in some diamonds not just crystals for $1,200.00
Yikes – I’m a lone voice here, but I think the bottle looks beautiful. In reality it may seem tacky, but in the pic the glass/crystal seems bright, the blue shading seems to enhance its clarity, and the top looks like a dome in some fairy tale!
I like the bottle too, but I wouldn’t throw down that much money for it.
I can’t even process the price of this, let alone shelling out for it. I just like the look of it.
Actually, the whole thing seems like a joke, like an entry in the Prix Eau Faux (or however it’s spelled) contest. The name, the bottle, the price and the description.
and check put the web page opening video
Normally I regard cursing as a triumph of the visceral over the intellect…but I just don’t think we need any intelligent criticism here. It’s awful. Black and white with spot colour is the acme of kitsch and not the good self-referential type either. I guess they are targeting a specific demography comprised of footballers wives, celebs (but not celebrities) and yuppies with high-wages and low self-esteem.
That’s exactly what I thought!
I am having trouble understanding that bottle, because it doesn’t look like a bottle: it looks like a drinking glass wearing a very fancy yarmulke.
I see a drinking glass too
This may smell lovely, but I’m not likely to ever find out.
Name of brand and bottle are a couple of the tackiest, ugliest things I’ve seen. Apologies to those who think otherwise.
Eep. I thought this was a spoof at first. House of Sillage? HoS?
I’m kinda old and the older I get the more I catch myself muttering “you’ve got to be kidding me” in response to a many varied things. It’s worked out well so far for me so why switch paddles now?
A Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and their families (non-hooman members included)!
Everything that I see and read in the article…its funny, I get the total opposite!!! Would love to see who buys it!
oh relooked at the bottle…its really really bad!
There is something awfully Monty Python about the bottle. I could just see it in one of Terry Gilliam’s animations (but maybe I have been watching too much Flying Circus this week?)
Perhaps it contains some nice Crunchy Frog?
Halimeade is correct. I believe it may be the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!
It looks like something out of a David Lynch film – very Blue Velvet. I can imagine the House of Sillage in Lumberton, and this bottle on Dorothy Vallens’s vanity table.
The website is good for a chuckle, if anyone needs a break from the routine of their day!
Oh, wow. Now I want Tiara so I can be an International Woman of Mystery… Interesting that for a fragrance house there is really very little about scent on the site.
I dont find the bottle disgusting, a bit too much yes, but I like exaggerations. I do wish though they have saved the obligatory “made with swarovski”.
what is far more disturbing is their advertisment video on the website. such american stereotype, lacking any imagination and creativity.
“house of sillage” is just a proof of that too.
The whole concept is lame.
The house in the video looks suspiciously like one of the unsellable noveau-Italianate overpriced minimansions in Shady Canyon in Irvine, CA, and the jet scene is taken at the Orange County airport (John Wayne Airport). The shoot isn’t particularly well done. The chauffeur isn’t very convincing. The car is a rental.
Odd that there is no way to sample this fragrance or even buy a smaller bottle. Nothing but hype.
Actually, Ikat is correct; the video was most likely filmed in Orange County, CA because that is where the company is based. And the description of the unsellable Italianate mini-mansions was right on the mark, although I would bet the house was in Newport Coast, which is a bit closer to the coast and a stronghold of “Newport Nouveaus”; who are the people who would probably buy the perfume.
The bottle is tasteless and tacky. A cupcake!
I’m not too interested in the scent itself being there are so many wonderful ones out there to choose from already and at more realistic prices.
I’d be embarrassed to have the bottle on my dresser.