Saturday, May 16, 2020

Un jour le parfum, il etait une nuit by Sephora c1996

Un jour le parfum, il était une fois la nuit by Sephora: launched in 1996. Perfume created for the opening of Sephora on the Champs Elysées, the largest perfumery in the world on December 11, 1996 at midnight.

On December 11, 1996, Sephora opened the largest perfumery in the world on the Champs-Elysees, Paris. Ten days later, a party dedicated to perfume and its artists was held between sunset, 4:55pm and 8:44am, sunrise on the following day. During this period, a miniature was offered to customers of all the Sephora shops. These prove to be very rare to find today.


Women's Wear Daily, 1996:
"Finally, Sephora is throwing an all-night bash dedicated to perfume on Dec. 21, the longest night of the year. The party, christened “La Nuit du Parfum,” will be at the store, and guests will include manufacturers, designers, perfumers and others from the industry. Many will discuss their role in the perfume process. 
The event will be transmitted live by satellite to all Sephora stores, which also will stay open all night. Meanwhile, home computer owners will be able to communicate via Internet with the party guests. 
A special edition fragrance called “Un jour le Parfum…Il Etait une nuit” was created for the party. A total of 300 bottles of the fragrance, each packaged in a crystal bottle designed by Serge Mansau, will be distributed in the perfumeries the night of the party."



Fragrance Composition:


So what does it smell like? Unfortunately, I have no notes on the perfume's scent.

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Bottles:

Two bottles were produced for this rare perfume, both designed by Serge Mansau..

Miniature Edition:


Bottle designed by Serge Mansau. Glass bottle belly model shows, decorated with gold-colored stars. Cap depicting clockwise indicating eleven fifty-five p.m.

Height: 9.5 cm.

Bottle holds 10ml parfum.




Grand Luxe Edition:


Grand Luxe Edition was limited to only 300 copies. Presented in a wooden box containing a shipping trunk with its labels containing an aluminum estagnon flacon of 150 ml of perfume and the "prestige" bottle in colorless glass and night blue glass, decorated with hot stamped gold, representing a sphere decorated with stars and a view of the cosmos, its night blue glass stopper representing two watch hands. Numbered 52/300. High. from the bottle: 12 cm




1 comment:

  1. I have one of the smaller bottles in the dark blue box.

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