tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post4160323762257032632..comments2024-03-14T03:54:26.754-04:00Comments on The Non-Blonde: Roja Parfums- Diaghilev (Parfum Imperial Collection)Gaiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11561470171631737626noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-35723036560265358002013-12-10T10:13:06.811-05:002013-12-10T10:13:06.811-05:00The price is in particularly poor taste given the ...The price is in particularly poor taste given the earlier EDP version's affordability. It feels like naked manipulation of the consumer - not a nice feeling. Roja is not doing a service to perfumery or his customers. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-10200032098438716472013-12-08T10:46:07.418-05:002013-12-08T10:46:07.418-05:00I've gotten my sample from STC and it is every...I've gotten my sample from STC and it is everything you've described. A really gorgeous, remarkable work of art. I think I was actually moaning over the oakmoss. However, I cannot possibly afford anything like this. But I'm very glad I can have a small decant of it. -- AnnunziataAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-90202975985157081052013-11-30T11:06:03.487-05:002013-11-30T11:06:03.487-05:00Normally, I would say no, the cost is part of the ...Normally, I would say no, the cost is part of the reality of the stuff. But I was bamboozled by a wonderful staff person into falling head over heels for Diaghilev long before he revealed the price. I didn't know much about Dove's own line before that day, so I was an easy target. On the other hand, there is no conceivable way I could spend $1000 for a bottle of perfume, and my half-hearted research into decant options came up equally economical. My bottom line: not buying it. But absolutely admiring it, breaking my pattern of turning up my nose at such a price.leathermountainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-54193267875250235372013-11-28T19:29:55.610-05:002013-11-28T19:29:55.610-05:00My first reaction was total sticker shock. Partic...My first reaction was total sticker shock. Particularly since I remember when it first came out and was quite reasonably priced for mere earthlings (especially the 250 ml aluminum refill bottles he had on his site). I just went and got out my sample - *such* a gorgeous, incredibly sumptuous scent! Kicking myself - hard - for not getting a bottle back then! Can't remember why I didn't, but know I had planned to. However, after the initial sticker shock I have to be fair and admit that if I only wore a few (very few) perfumes, I probably would fork over that much because perfume is that high on my priority list of things that make life worth living. However, I have a completely fickle olfactory soul and need variety - lots of it - in perfume. Also, again to be fair to RD, that's one heck of a large bottle. I've purchased quite many quarter ounce bottles from all natural perfumers and never once have I questioned the prices when I know they are using superb quality ingredients. For instance, I've bought Mandy's Parfum Prive at $390 for a quarter ounce and never regretted or hesitated over the price for an instant. Instead, I just feel enormously grateful that she's created something so stunning and that I can actually have it. I know it's a small quantity, but it makes me so incredibly happy, it feels priceless. Also, perfume for me is art and for a truly unique and exquisite work of art, I'm simply not going to kvetch about price. And, psychologically, it helps when a bottle is under the $400 mark - I know that that is *completely* illogical and DH would be pounding his head against a wall (and possibly sobbing) if he were reading this. If I really, really want something, I don't have a problem with discreetly temporarily locking logic away in another room. So, how do I feel about Diaghilev's price? I still don't know. The edp really is amazing, but it's not worth *that* much. Maybe the parfum is, but I'd also want to know more about the ingredients and I'd love to see it in a smaller bottle.<br />Anna<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-20024890975538806772013-11-28T11:33:10.768-05:002013-11-28T11:33:10.768-05:00A perfume friend sent me a sample of this, and the...A perfume friend sent me a sample of this, and the day before yesterday, I finally had a chance to try it. Now, I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry - laugh, that OMG yes, such wonders do exist, and OMG is it heavenly for us chypre diehards, and OMG that oakmoss!!! - or else weep that it might as well be located in a perfume store on the moon for being priced so infinitely far out of my reach. Yet if money were no object - I so WOULD...;) tarleisiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03891545310811763453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-75860985991223393832013-11-28T10:55:02.379-05:002013-11-28T10:55:02.379-05:00It is perhaps best that I never smell this, becaus...It is perhaps best that I never smell this, because you make it sound like I would want to climb into the bottle and live there and at that price? Ain't never gonna happen.StyleSpyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09032983147859861793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-6880857943484405672013-11-28T10:00:53.105-05:002013-11-28T10:00:53.105-05:00Great interview.
As for that perfumer-who-shall-r...Great interview.<br /><br />As for that perfumer-who-shall-remain-nameless, hah! and *eye roll*. ;)Jessica Mhttp://tinselcreation.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-26780930714662785912013-11-28T09:59:49.203-05:002013-11-28T09:59:49.203-05:00I'm not sure about what the price is based on....I'm not sure about what the price is based on. I would always rather pay the higher price for real perfume (e.g., Amouage) than a lower price for one of the formerly great brands that is now spending all the money on the marketing campaign and nothing on what's in the bottle, and that has reformulated its once great perfumes into dreck (i.e., Dior). If $700 dollars is added to the price of Diaghilev for the sole purpose of making it unattainable for nearly everyone and to make it seem more than what it is, then that's essentially a cheap marketing gimmick and a shame. If it really costs $990 in 2013 to make a 1910 perfume, maintain the London boutique and keep the line going and Mr. Dove in fur coats, fine, but if you're going to offer Belle Epoque perfume at Belle Epoque prices in Belle Epoque presentations, where are the Belle Epoque 1/4-ounce flacons and EdCs? <br /><br />By the way, I sampled this recently and agree it smells WONDERFUL. However, I think it gave me a rash, so I would also prefer a lower concentration. nozknozAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-72847217956034095372013-11-28T08:31:46.955-05:002013-11-28T08:31:46.955-05:00Is he not conforming to IFRA limitations, i.e. the...Is he not conforming to IFRA limitations, i.e. the wealthy are not subject to the rules?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-52272161241505759932013-11-28T08:21:47.250-05:002013-11-28T08:21:47.250-05:00What an incredible review! I was taking in 'L...What an incredible review! I was taking in 'Louise Brooks...Dietrich...oakmoss...' and was already thinking, 'Well, I could postpone redecorating the bedroom...and why the hell do I need a new car?' etc. This sounds like the sort of perfume one only dreams of nowadays, serious Holy Grail stuff. It certainly sounds like a scent that anyone who loves chypres, as I do, must find a way of trying. -- AnnunziataAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-25359440722495129712013-11-28T06:22:37.091-05:002013-11-28T06:22:37.091-05:00A limited edition EdP made by Roja Dove named &quo...A limited edition EdP made by Roja Dove named "Diaghilev" was sold two years ago at the V&A when they had a special exhibition about the Ballets Russes. I'm not sure but it cost around £75 and came in a lovely bottle with an old fashioned atomizer. Now, I don't know if it's exactly the same scent or if Roja made a "low cost" version for the V&A and this one got reformulated with more expensive ingredients in a more concentrated version. But let me tell you, I have the V&A version and it's good, damn good, good quality with great staying power and sillage, and compared with modern-day Mitsouko, I like Diaghilev more. It's more authentic and more animalic.<br /><br />As a curious aside, back then the blurb for this stated that Roja Dove was inspired by the legend that Sergei Diaghilev used to spray Mitsouko on his bedroom curtains on every single hotel he stayed on...amola-tesourashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11443047832310999143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-21432286923186329192013-11-28T05:54:36.746-05:002013-11-28T05:54:36.746-05:00Very interesting thoughts about the issue of luxur...Very interesting thoughts about the issue of luxury here. I recently reviewed Hasu-no-Hana from Grossmith, and although it's not quite in the RD price range, it comes close enough and the perfume is just on the right side of old fashioned splendeur to be still very desirable (for me). But a bit more, and I would feel like an impostor and that would totally spoil the joy of wearing such a perfume. Also: do I want to smell like Joan Collins? No, most certainly not. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13967920797621584017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-77294996192342787512013-11-28T02:28:28.461-05:002013-11-28T02:28:28.461-05:00That's a very thoughtful review - thanks. I wi...That's a very thoughtful review - thanks. I will never get to smell Diaghilev but I appreciate the fact that it exists. annemarienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27044110.post-72095566291423654622013-11-28T00:34:28.441-05:002013-11-28T00:34:28.441-05:00I'd heard the buzz about Roja Dove's Diagh...I'd heard the buzz about Roja Dove's Diaghilev and was not disappointed when my decant arrived in the mail. It was everything I'd hoped for, and more. Yes the heavens opened, the trumpets sounded and the angels sang, it was unbelievably beautiful. I love big vintage chypres, leathers in particular and this scent sang on my skin. But, oh boy that price tag is stellar too! Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04799815810869706346noreply@blogger.com