The Most Expensive Perfumes in the World

Perfumes have been around for thousands of years, the first recorded time perfume was used for personal enjoyment was by the Egyptians. The word perfume used today derives from the Latin per fumum, meaning “through smoke.” Below we have compiled a list of top five most expensive perfumes in the world.

5. Hermes 24 Faubourg Perfume – Price: $1,500 per ounceNamed for the address of the first store in Paris, Faubourg Saint Honoré, 24 Faubourg. Created by Maurice Roucel in 1995, this feminine scent is light with floral notes. Only 1000 of the square St. Louis crystal bottles were created.

4. Clive Christian No. 1 – Price: $2,150 per ounceThe crystal bottle, is decorated with an 18-carat gold inset containing a 5-carat brilliant cut diamond. This sophisticated scent is created from the rarest, finest ingredients: bergamot, natural gum resin, orris, ylang ylang extract, vanilla and sandalwood.

 3. Baccarat Les Larmes Sacrees de Thebes – Price: $6,800 per ounceBaccarat, better known for its pure and high-quality crystal, decided to create a fragrance to go with their signature crystal bottles. The perfume consists of a mixture of Egyptian Cassie, Pepper Flower, Pink Pepper , Jasmine, Geranium, Rose , Balsams, Myrrh and Amber. 

 2. Clive Christian No. 1 Imperial Majesty Perfume – Price: $12,721.89 per ounceThe bottle is made of Baccarat crystal is decorated with a beautiful white diamond weighing five carats. The scent is as precious as the bottle, with only 10 bottles each made for men and women. Each bottle is delivered in a Bentley. 

1.DKNY Golden Delicious Million Dollar Perfume – Price: $1 million a bottleDesigned by jeweler Martin Katz, this perfume is not just a fragrance but a collector’s edition item. The bottle is carved from polished 14-karat yellow and white, adorned with 2,909 precious stones: white diamonds , yellow sapphires and a 2.43-carat yellow canary diamonds. The scent features notes of orange flower water, golden delicious apples, white rose, vanilla orchid, sandalwood and musk.

Creed Les Royales Exclusives, Gilded Edition

Creed Perfumes reinstates their position as the leaders in perfume innovation with their Les Royales Exclusives Gilded Edition. This Midas touched bottle is made from hand blown Pochet glass, dipped in gold and given a personal touch with the addition of a stamped monogram in block or script letters as per your preference. The ultra exclusive flacon is filled with a Royal Exclusives perfume of your choice, you can choose from lush fragrances like Jardin D’Amalfi, Pure White Cologne, Spice and Wood, Sublime Vanille or White Flowers. The Gilded Edition bottle also comes with a complimentary 1.7 oz. atomizer wrapped in gold Italian leather and embossed with Creed’s family crest. The atomizer is shatterproof and refillable, making it ideal for travel while the gilded edition glass bottle makes the perfect addition to your dresser or fireplace mantle.

The Les Royales Exclusives collection honors the most refined techniques in perfumery that are even now practiced by Creed. The Gilded Edition bottle retails at 3.640 Euro ($5,000) and is available at the Creed website. Established in London in 1760, by James Creed, the House of Creed has a noble history of supplying fragrances to British and European Royalty including being named the official supplier of fragrance to the Crown by Queen Victoria herself. They have also catered to modern icons including celebrities and politicians like John F. Kennedy who wore their Vetiver fragrance in 1948. Today, Creed continues to push the boundaries of olfactory ingenuity having created over 200 of their scented masterpieces. Olivier Creed, sixth generation perfumer of the Creed dynasty and currently the head of the House of Creed, has made select Creed perfumes available to the public for the very first time since the perfume powerhouse’s birth.

Source: Creed

Beyoncé to release new perfume ‘RISE’ in February

Beyoncé isn’t settling on just having out a new album. The international superstar, who recently set a record by selling 828,773 albums in just three days on iTunes, announced her new perfume, RISE, will be released in February. This will be her third fragrance.

“The spirit of RISE encourages women to be all that we are,” Beyoncé said in a press release. The new fragrance is centered around orchids. It will come in snazzy gold bottle, designed by Ken Hirst. Beyonce collaborated with Loc Dong, a perfumer at (International Flavors & Fragrances) IFF, for the new fragrance.

 RISE will be available in three Eau de Parfum sizes — 0.5 oz, 1.0 oz, and 1.7 oz bottles.