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Perfume: Is it art, design or craft?

by 0x54MUR41 on 1/2/25, 5:21 AM with 3 comments

• by ggm on 1/2/25, 6:23 AM

  Perfume houses can be remarkably un financially savvy: "intimately for women" was terminated by Beckham and sold for $80. The few remaining bottles trade at $300. The blogs are full of people seeking clones. It was itself a copy /homage to Dior poison.

  Probably there is a Veblen goods reason it made sense (sorry) to terminate. I have little doubt it would still sell.

  It's brother product for men lives on. Posh stopped, David continued.

  (I very much doubt it's price reflected input costs, or it was terminated for low ROI)