Nina Ricci

Perfume: Dab on a touch of elegance and luxury

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“Being there before you’ve been seen”: even today, Madame Nina Ricci’s motto is still the House of Nina Ricci’s mission for women.
From the moment she founded her house, in 1932, Nina Ricci’s creations were a hit: women were immediately attracted to her extremely feminine, free-spirited fashions.
Under the direction of Robert Ricci, the House of Nina Ricci opened a Perfume department: their first creation was “Coeur Joie” in 1946; it would be the first step in their historic collaboration with the crystal-makers Lalique. Success followed upon success, with L’Air du Temps in 1948, Fille d’Eve in 1952, Capricci in 1961, Farouche in 1974, Premier Jour in 2001, Love in Paris in 2004 and, most recently, Nina, in 2006.

In 1998, Puig acquired the Nina Ricci brand, affirming their intention to grow with prestige brands.

It was the start of a new wave of success for Nina Ricci, where passion, originality, romanticism and constant innovation can once again enjoy their full expression. These values and artistic choices explain Nina Ricci’s continued success. The combination of the brand’s ideas and ambitions with their capacity for innovation and creation have allowed for their exceptional successful fragrances, like Nina, in 2006, which has become a reference in contemporary perfumery.

The Cristal Lalique Collection

The collaboration between Lalique and Nina Ricci dates back to 1946. Right from the very first perfume designed by Robert Ricci, “Coeur-Joie”, the perfumer worked with Marc Lalique and his crystal-works. Their collaboration and shared vision of perfume bottles’ role and importance culminated in 1951, with the creation of the L’Air du Temps bottle, which was crowned Bottle of the Century in 1999.
In the same creative spirit, Nina Ricci came up with the Cristal Lalique collection. These perfumes are authentic works of art. Each bottle – made by artisans using traditional crystal-making techniques – undergoes more than a dozen finishing touches, all done by hand. The polishing, stoppering and “baudruchage” (applying a wax seal – often holding a silken cord in place to prevent evaporation), etc., all illustrate the quality desired by Nina Ricci and Lalique in creating and finishing these bottles.
This means that these bottles, which are instantly recognizable thanks to their exceptionally pure, transparent and luminous crystal, are both objets d’art in their own right, and of course, elegant settings for a juice of equally high standards and quality.
The Cristal Lalique Collection comprises Nina Ricci’s “historic” perfumes: Coeur-Joie, L’Air du Temps, Fille d’Eve, Capricci and Farouche.