New limited-edition bottle and packaging for Calvin Klein CK one and CK be fragrances are now available in travel retail worldwide.

The 100ml collector’s bottle, with portable speaker, is decorated with the “we are one” slogan in handwritten-style script and in a number of languages.

The detachable speaker aims to exemplify the universal language of music. It is compatible with most standard MP3 players.

Bond No. 9 is a New York based fragrance house best known for creating fragrances that pay homage to New York City and its neighborhoods.

Bond No. 9 – named after its flagship boutique at 9 Bond Street in NoHo – was the brainchild of French perfume expert, Laurice Rahme, a resident of New York for 25 years.

I love the new, “controversial” Bond No. 9 Booklyn bottle though (Apparently some folks object to the idea of Brooklyn being represented by graffiti).

The brilliant Sofia Coppola has directed a dreamy and infectiously happy new commercial for Christian Dior’s Miss Dior Chérie fragrance.

It features model Maryna Linchuk eating a pastry, riding a bike, spraying on the perfume and kissing a guy. Then she gets lifted up into the sky by a bunch of balloons. And all to the tune of “Moi Je Joue” by Brigitte Bardot.

You can see the long-form director’s cut above.

From jeweler Boucheron comes a new fragrance to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding as well as the 20th anniversary of its first fragrance, Boucheron (1988).

Inspired by the Exquises Confidences jewelry collection, B’s flacon is executed with the same perfection as Boucheron’s jewelry, incorporating the trademarked design known as the plisse (pleats) cut.

Only a cabochon emerald-green stone and the engraved letter “B” decorate the bottle’s cap, in keeping with the brand’s discreet design sensibility.

Donatella Versace presents the ultimate luxury in gorgeous package: small leather suitcase coloured white with golden details. Gianni Versace Couture is the first fragrance which is ideal for the high class. It was created in cooperation with Euroitalia Company from Milan and its aim is to return the brand Versace on the top of luxury sector, beauty department in Italy.

“Versace has reestablished itself as a modern luxury brand,” Donatella said. “The Gianni Versace Couture fragrance project will reestablish Versace at the top of the beauty luxury sector.”

The 3.4-oz. bottle of scent is sheathed in the same leather as the train case. Both the sheath and the box bear metal plates engraved with “Gianni Versace Couture.” The amazing workmanship and made-to-order quality has been designed to evoke the era of lost glamour. The bottle is also supported inside the case by a liner that can be removed so that the leather box can function like a regular carrying case.

The new fragrance has notes of bergamot and tangerine with a floral kick from jasmine, heliotrope and almond blossom and a base that includes tonka bean, patchouli heart and sandalwood.

Distribution of Gianni Versace Couture will be exclusive, with a very exotic price of 2100 dollars per bottle. Placement on the European market is expected in November 2008. It will arrive in the USA in December and will be available in Versace boutiques worldwide.

In cooperation with Coty, Karl Lagerfeld will release, this November, a trio of unisex fragrances named Kapsule after their capsule like packaging.

“I love the world of perfumes,” Lagerfeld said. “For me, the world of fashion doesn’t exist without it.”… The designer’s favorite smells are: fresh bread, vanilla, woods and spices. “I don’t like heavy, flowery things. I think there are never enough fragrances, they are so much fun to play with.”

Karl said the scents are genderless because “there is no gender in perfumes anymore.” Their bottles were created in geometric shape of square, in three colours of glass, as the creator’s great love: light blue (Kapsule Light), red (Kapsule Fioriental) and dark blue (Kapsule Woody). The bottles were designed by Luz Herrmann, with engraved Lagerfeld’s signature on the bottom of each bottle.

“The difficult challenge we had was to create something neither too feminine nor too masculine”

The three fragrances are named Kapsule Light, Kapsule Woody and Kapsule Floriental and Karl Lagerfeld personally worked on each one with a different parfumeur :

• Kapsule Light was developed by perfumer Mark Buxton, and has notes of bitter orange, jasmine, nutmeg, clove and musk.
• Kapsule Floriental was developed by perfumer Emilie Coppermann; the notes are ivy leaf, violet and black tea.
• Kapsule Woody was developed by perfumer Olivier Cresp and features cedar, moss and plum.

Karl Lagerfeld Kapsule come in 30ml edt (1.0oz) and 75ml edt (2.5oz) Eau de Toilette – The fragrances will debut in October in France at Colette and Marionnaud and will be exclusive to Neiman Marcus in the US through early 2009