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Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2011, part 13

More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.

Crystallized Fracas

From Robert Piguet, crystallized versions of their iconic Fracas perfume…

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Maison Martin Margiela Untitled ~ fragrance review

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Untitled, the debut fragrance from the Diesel-owned fashion house Maison Martin Margiela, launched last year. It took its own sweet time getting to the US, and when it finally got here, it was (and so far as I know, still is) exclusive to Saks, which means it has taken me very nearly forever to try it. And now that I have, well, it’s quite nice but I am not weeping inconsolably over the lost time. (There, now you needn’t read the rest of the review).

The original newsletter from Colette announcing the fragrance noted that it “includes of course the codes of the brand, while cultivating its personality”. I know little enough about the codes of the Maison Martin Margiela brand, other than the obvious: they’re too hip to pander to the sort of consumers who want things like, say, names on their fragrances; they’re fashionably arty; and they do a darned nice minimalist bottle. Vogue helpfully informs me that the “biggest insult to a Maison Martin Margiela runway collection is that it’s wearable.”

The perfume, sorry to say, or perhaps, not sorry to say, isn’t really much of a fit with all that…

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Maison Martin Margiela Untitled L’Eau ~ new fragrance

Maison Martin Margiela Untitled L'Eau

Maison Martin Margiela is launching Untitled L’Eau, a fresher follow-up to last year’s Maison Martin Margiela Untitled

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I can’t think of a title either

A short film for the new Martin Margiela Untitled fragrance.

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Maison Martin Margiela Untitled ~ new perfume

Maison Martin Margiela Untitled

Maison Martin Margiela, the fashion house named for the Belgian designer, has launched their debut fragrance, Untitled.* The new scent was created under the auspices of L’Oreal

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