$215,000 & SCENTS: The Clive Christian perfume bottle, including crystal stopper, gold collar and diamond stud, gets the kid-glove treatment yesterday at Bergdorf. Photo: Thomas Hinton
Posted on 12/09/2005 7:15:59 AM PST by Liz
$215,000 & SCENTS: The Clive Christian perfume bottle, including crystal stopper, gold collar and diamond stud, gets the kid-glove treatment yesterday at Bergdorf. Photo: Thomas Hinton
The most expensive perfume in the world just got more obnoxious. Clive Christian yesterday unveiled a $215,000 bottle of luxury perfume with a five-carat brilliant cut diamond on the neck, an 18-carat solid-gold collar, and a Baccarat crystal stopper, styled like Queen Victoria's crown.
The British perfume company, Crown Perfumery, which normally charges $2,510 for one ounce of No. 1 perfume, unveiled a limited edition of only 10 bottles called the Imperial Majesty at Bergdorf Goodman last night.
"In 15 years, it will be worth 10 times the amount — and bottle collectors know that," said Clive Christian.
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It costs a lot of money nowadays to smell like a european.
Only an idiot would buy this.
And here I thought...one only had to go 3 weeks without a bath...
Why would any fool get his lady this when it would be much more romantic to give her a zirconium ring and spill beer on her. Don't women know that guy's love women who smell like beer?
Btw, they are now able to make diamonds using high pressure machines at a fraction of the cost of mined diamonds.
So how long 'til the cheap rip-off perfume manufacturers come out with the bottle of "Smell like.." version with a cubic zirconia adorning it.
Now what are the chances that my post was beat by :21 seconds by another mentioning zirconia?!
damn.
Cheers!
I'd love to buy, but my retirement funds are all tied up in Faberge eggs.
Are you sure? As far as I know, synthetic diamonds are much smaller and far, far more expensive than mined diamonds.
Since when is 18 caret gold "solid gold"? I thought 24 caret gold was pure gold...
Ever since I saw that show about DeBeers and the "real" costs of diamonds, I haven't been interested in them. Cheap rocks is all they are.
oooooohhhhhh....a chance to foolishly waste money....Paris Hilton...paging Paris Hilton.
24 KT is solid gold. It's not used as much because it is too soft.
not according to this...
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/SavingandDebt/P97816.asp
and if you want to take a loved one's remains and make them into a diamond, go here: http://www.lifegem.com/secondary/whatisLG2006.aspx
Soap and water are a Lot cheaper!
I saw that show too, and I also read an article about the DeBeers near-monopoly on the diamond market, and how they established it, and their advertising tactics. I think only diamond experts would know which stones are a cut above the ordinary and have real and lasting value. The rest of us are just buying into the hype.
John Francoise Kerry has just eyed his "Holiday Gift" for Teraaaza!
My first thought:
Naah -- Not any more.
One of my daughter's former boyfriends gave her a hundred carat honker, she kept it like a rock in her pocket, he works in a factory that presses them out and turns them into drill bits, and this one came out a few thousandths of an inch off spec.
(She lost it on a hike once and we all combed the trail till we found it.)
You'll find a company that makes them in Provo, Utah.
Yep, not me anymore though. That was an interesting program. I only have one one and a quarter k diamond that was from my moms ring. That's all I want. Unless someone wants to give me the Hope diamond or something!
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