I first read about the Ineke fragrance line on the Smell-O-Vision website, and due to Smell-O’s enthusiastic description of their products, I cruised on over to the Ineke website and ordered their sampler box, the Ineke Deluxe Sample Collection.
The sample box is decidedly modern and upscale in its presentation, exhibiting a minimalist flair, and it won an Editors’ Choice Award from CPC Packaging magazine. The cool, sophisticated look also impressed the editors at Vanity Fair magazine and they ran a puff piece on the Ineke line for their Vanity Mirror section:
“Ineke Ruhland’s Ineke perfumes are best seen as parts of a whole, like the stanzas of a poem or the chapters of a book. Each fragrance in the five-piece collection has a lyrical name inspired by a different letter of the alphabet, and the scents evoke the stories displayed on the boxes through original photos, artwork, and snippets of verse. Ruhland will add a new fragrance every year until she arrives at the letter Z.”
I (of course) dove straight for the deepest, richest of the scents — Evening Edged in Gold. It’s a great big leathery floral with life flowing through its veins, probably along the lines of what Hermes Caleche might have been before it was reformulated into the thin, wan ghost of a leather it is today: honied, spicy, huge (though it hits its drydown with a much lighter touch).
It’s the kind of fragrance my floriental-loving sister would adore, and while it’s likely too bold and aggressive for her to wear to work, she’d definitely take a nose-dive into the stuff on her weekends off.
Below are photos of the Deluxe Sample Collection — as always, click on the photos to see larger versions hosted at Flickr:
Re: new camera — I upgraded from a Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS to a Canon Powershot G10. I think the color and clarity of the photos show a significant improvement, not to mention that the digital files require far less tweaking in Photoshop to compensate for distortions.
It’s amazing what you can get out of a lightweight, compact camera these days.
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I’m a sucker for well-done packaging. These look nifty. (Obligatory thank you for the pics…and the heads up about the camera.) I’ve been wanting to try Derring-Do myself…a desire, I must admit, fueled nearly as much by the name as the notes & descriptions.
(Does that make me a double sucker? If I recognize my potential weaknesses, does that make me a double sucker once removed?)
Tsutsumi, origata, brown paper packages tied up with string…hey, maybe I can distract myself from scent with the art of wrapping. For a while.
I concur about the suckership for well-done packaging. While packaging is not my raison d’être, I certainly don’t mind when it accompanies a kick-ass interior (as in contents of the bott-tell).
For example, there’s a stunningly gorgeous specially commissioned bottle of Solange Stoned at the 20LTD website. Unfortunately, it’s still Stoned inside the bottle, but wow! What a bottle.
And you’re not a sucker. At least, not an all-day one.
G10 is inspiring me as well. Congratulations, in my opinion it is a good choice.
When I first read your comment, I was, like, “G10? Is that some kind of Cologne? Wait, didn’t Cereus make a G10 fragrance?”
And then I realized you were talking about the G10 camera. LOL!
I did a bit of researching before I selected the Canon G10. I almost went for the Panasonic LX3, but I was already familiar with the Canon operating system and from what I could gather, there wasn’t a significant enough difference between the G10 and the LX3 to warrant choosing the Panasonic over the G10.
I’m very pleased with the G10 so far. The quality of the photos is pretty darn great for a compact point and shoot.
I bought it. I got it. They had to have paid more for the packaging than I did for the kit.
Coincidentally enough, the only Ineke I’ve tried so far is the Evening Edged in Gold (seriously… totally independent of any memory of your sampling) and think of it as a far more wearable (for me) Burberry Gold.
Congratulations on being a driving force in my ongoing campaign to keep the economy afloat.
It’s your patriotic duty to shovel that hard-earned money into the gaping hole of our economy!
I thought the same thing about the package of samples — it had to have cost more than what they charged. But I think the company must view it as a worthwhile loss on the books. I mean, it gets people to talk about their fragrances, and hopefully purchase them, too.
It certainly leaves a positive impression.