Most Expensive Perfume

[Marwan]

Imperial Majesty, which costs $215,000 a bottle, is the most expensive perfume in the world. Would it smell as sweet at any other price?

Actually, yes. Imperial Majesty is a limited edition of a Clive Christian signature scent. Sold simply as No. 1, the fragrance is priced at $2,150 an ounce. But the reason.

Imperial Majesty costs so much is that Christian, a British designer-turned-perfumer, poured 16.9 ounces of No. 1 into a Baccarat crystal bottle, stuck a five-carat diamond into the 18-carat gold collar and unveiled it at Harrods in London and Bergdorf Goodman in New York City this past holiday season.


Of the five bottles released for sale (the others were kept for Christian's archives), three have sold.

That's actually not as crazy as it sounds. There is a glut of new fragrances being dumped on the market from not only perfume makers and fashion houses, but also celebrities and movie stars--many of which scents have a shelf life as long or short as the celeb who introduced them. From Paris to Britney, there were over 500 fragrance launches in 2005 alone. Feeling overwhelmed, people are not buying more perfumes, but they are willing to spend more on ones they like.

According to The NPD Group, a Long Island-based market research company, the U.S. fragrance industry grossed $2.8 billion in sales in 2004, the last year for which annual numbers exist, up only 1% over the prior year.

[Lolittta]

crystal n diamonds n gold; actually a normal perfume in an imperial flacon; those ppl pay for the signature and the container rather than the essence lol

[Angelic]

Ewww Nice One Marwan In Harrods Eh! Thanx I Will Go Check It Out And Of Course Only Harrods Would Display Such Things

[Lolittta]

Angelic eh ok buy one for me b taree2ik LOOOOOOOOOL

[Angelic]

Who Said Buy Do I Know You???? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL I Am Kidding But I Will Take A Pic For You?????????? I Will Go See Not Buy LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL I Aint That Rich :P

[Marwan]

Of the five bottles released for sale (the others were kept for Christian's archives), three have sold.

There's 2 more, 1 for loli n 1 for Angelic la72o 7alkon

[Lolittta]

loooooooooooooool angelic dont waste time plzzzzzzzzzzzz go now a7la ma trou7 3layna

[mu7eb lebnan]

So you are not just paying for the brand name but also for the bottle and in the end the perfum is not as great as you would think it is. Best perfume is arabic perfume you know the ones you buy at 3attareen in the gulf states thats pure!

[Angelic]

Mu7eb Lebnan Well Not Really I Mean This World Is Taste And Arabic Perfume Is Like 2 Much It Smells Awful When Ppl Sweat! And When You Put It On It Kills Even Bugs Around You LOOOOOOOOOOOOl But Then Again This Is My Opinion... And Like I Said Different Ppl Have Different Tastes...

[Lolittta]

i agree with angelic; perfume is all about taste and arabic essences are too heavy n personally i dont like them;
moreover each type of skin depending on its complexion, color, cell types n metabolic processes react differently to perfume emitting different smells; arabic perfumes are rich, saturated, yet fit few ppl..