Parfums de Nicolai

[Obsessed]

Does anyone know of brick and mortar stores in the NYC area that carry PdN?

Thanks.

 

[StylinLA]

Try The New London Pharmacy
46 Eighth Avenue - NYC
212.243.4987 · 800.941.0490

BUT call first Obsessed. My experience with a lot of the niche scents is they are often carried very erratically. Websites and "store locaters" are often out of date. Especially if you've got a couple specific PdN scents in mind you want to sample.

I've been to two stores here in LA that Penhaligons lists as distibutors. I went there and they had very little product and bemoaned that Pens wasn't resupplying them. There's a store in Beverly Hills that Trumpers considers a distributor but they never have their frags and other products are erratically stocked as well.

I'll hit up someone on Basenotes. I'm sure there are a couple of niche specialty stores there.

 

[Obsessed]

Thanks.

 

[StylinLA]

Ask a fragrance question in Basenotes....

A poster also mentioned that New London Pharmacy for PdN but also noted to call first (he's been there and been burned I bet).

Here's a substantial list for NYC. Any notes below are from the OPs in Basenotes:

Le Labo
233 Elizabeth Street
(Between Prince and Houston)
New York, NY, 10012
1-212-219-2230
[email protected]
http://www.lelabofragrances.com/

CB I Hate Perfume
Christopher Brosius Ltd
93 Wythe Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Tel. (718)384.6890
[email protected]
http://www.cbihateperfume.com/index2.html

Caron Boutique
675 Madison Ave
New York, NY 10022 View Map
(212) 319-4888

Henri Bendel's (712 Fifth Avenue)
Olfactory Highlights:
Lovely l'Artisan Boutique
Caron Urns (including the lovely Farnesiana)
Kisu
Serge Lutens
Maitre Parfum de Gantier
Aqaba (the entire line)
And many, many more...

Aedes De Venustas
9 Christopher Street
New York, NY 10014
phone:212-206-8674
fax: 212-206-8675
[email protected]
http://www.aedes.com/brand.php?brand_id=40&cat_id=2
Olfactory Highlights:
Serge Lutens
l'Artisan
Montale
Le Parfums de Rosine
Maitre Parfum de Gantier
Dyptique
Jalaine
Escentric Molecule
And many more...
But most of all, the staff is friendly, the setting is intimate and beautiful, very European and inviting.

New London Pharmacy
on 8th Ave. between 22nd and 23rd Streets
Olfactory Highlights:
Miller Harris
Sage Machado
Comptoir Sud Pacifique
Dyptique
Aqua di Parma
Carthusia
And many more...

C. O. Bigelow Apothecary
414 Sixth Avenue
New York New York 10011
Tel. (212) 533 2700
Olfactory Highlights: Your dream-come-true drugstore, with scents from niche houses such as:
Patricia de Nicolai
Lorenzo Villoresi
Le Parfums de Rosine
Miller Harris
AromaM
And many more...

Takashimaya
http://www.ny-takashimaya.com/
Takashimaya
693 5th Ave
New York, NY 10022
Tel. (212) 350-0100
Unique, mimimalistic atmosphere
Olfactory highlights:
The Different Company
Sage Machado
Divine
Maitre Parfum de Gantier
And some other, less known niche lines

Bergdorf Goodman
Goodman Address: 754 Fifth Avenue (57th and 58th Streets) (The men's store is located across Fifth Avenue.)
Closest Subways to Bergdorf Goodman: F, N/R/W, 4/5/6 to 59th Street/Lexington Avenue stop
1-800-558-1855
* Monday-Wednesday: 10-7
* Thursday-Saturday: 10-8
* Sunday: 11-6
http://www.bergdorfgoodman.com/
Olfactory Highlights:
The Guerlain Boutique - including many of the Champs Elyses scents. A must visit! (And don't forget to come with plenty of scent-free skin...).
JAR boutique
l'Artisan
Ineke (perfumer from San Francisco)
And many other niche and mainstream lines

(MALIN+GOETZ) apothecary
177 Seventh Ave
between 20th and 21st Streets
New York New York 10011
212 727 3777
M-F 11-8, Sat 12-8, Sun 12-6
http://www.malinandgoetz.com/

Barneys New York
660 Madison Avenue
New York New York 10021
Tel. (212) 826 8900 x2020
Olfactory Highlights:
Frederic Malle's Editions de Parfums boutique (a must visit if you are not familir with this line!), Strang Invisible Perfumes, Yosh, Commes de Garcon, Costumer Internatnional, l'Artisan, Serge Lutens

Santa Maria Novella
285 Lafayette St (Cross Street: Between Houston Street and Prince Street)
New York, NY 10012
(212) 925-0001


Sephora
http://www.sephora.com/browse/sectio...categoryId=B23

Sephora SOHO
555 Broadway
New York NY 10012
Tel. (212) 625 1309

Sephora on 5th Avenue
597 Fifth Avenue @48th St
New York NY 10017
Tel. (212) 980 6534
Olfactory Highlights: Large selection of CSP of various sizes, and a few other niche (Aquolina, Fresh, Alan Cumming, Le Maison de Vanille, Philosophy) and mainstream houses of course.

Bloomingdale's (1000 Third Avenue)

Saks Fifth Avenue (611 Fifth Avenue)
Olfactory Highlights:
Caron Urns
Bond No. 9 (including urns)
Annick Goutal (urns as well)

Macy's (151 West 34th St)
Madison Avenue Cosmetics
365 Madison Avenue (45th-46th Street)
New York, New York 10017
212 221-6560

This store has great prices and has fragrances that are hard to find.

"NYC's Fragrance District is worth visiting. From 34th Street, walk south on Broadway for several blocks and you'll find many shops crammed with fragrances from floor to ceiling. Prices are not posted, so you can bargain and there's no sales tax."

 

[Obsessed]

Wow, you're good. Thanks.

 

[StylinLA]

Naw...I just asked a simple Q and knew the NYC frag heads would know where everything was.

The one that gets referenced a lot in Basenotes for niche scents is that Aedes De Venustas. They carry a lot of the most popular niche stuff Lutens, Montale, L'Artisan. (But NOT PdN evidently).

 

[Obsessed]

Try The New London Pharmacy
46 Eighth Avenue - NYC
212.243.4987 · 800.941.0490

I happened to be a block away from New London Pharmacy this morning, so I stopped in to check it out. As it turns out, they do have PdN fragrances. I'm wearing a few test squirts of New York right now. The initial blast reminded me a lot of Bois du Portugal. It's still very similar as it dries down, but its diverging in a way I'm having trouble describing. Maybe "spicier" is the word I'm looking for.

New London seems like a nice store, by the way. They have a decent array of wetshaving products, fragrances, soaps, etc. Trumpers, D.R. Harris, Musgo Real, Acqua de Parma, Proraso, and Claus Porto were the ones I noticed.

 

[StylinLA]

I happened to be a block away from New London Pharmacy this morning, so I stopped in to check it out. As it turns out, they do have PdN fragrances. I'm wearing a few test squirts of New York right now. The initial blast reminded me a lot of Bois du Portugal. It's still very similar as it dries down, but its diverging in a way I'm having trouble describing. Maybe "spicier" is the word I'm looking for.

New London seems like a nice store, by the way. They have a decent array of wetshaving products, fragrances, soaps, etc. Trumpers, D.R. Harris, Musgo Real, Acqua de Parma, Proraso, and Claus Porto were the ones I noticed.

Yes, the initial shot out of the barrel is exactly like BdP. But I think it turns into something very different. PdN New York is widely thought to go through three radical transitions...from opening, to middle to basenotes.

As you may well know, Luca Turin worships this fragrance. Doesn't work so well on me. But I do like that they sell a 30ML bottle. Wish more perfumers did that.

 

[Obsessed]

As you may well know, Luca Turin worships this fragrance.

The clerk at New London actually showed me the entry in Luca Turin's book, which I had never seen before. I guess it's a good sign that she was doing her homework.

Doesn't work so well on me. But I do like that they sell a 30ML bottle. Wish more perfumers did that.

I'm not sure this one is "me," either, but I agree about the 30 ml bottles.

 

[StylinLA]

That's funny about the book...bet they wouldn't have whipped it out if you sampled something he crapped on though.

It is a good, well designed scent, worthy of much of the high praise. I can see why a lot of people really like it. But I just don't find it doesn't work for me too well. Dies out too fast. Which is why I'm so glad I only have a 30ml bottle.

In fairness to PdN, that happens to me a lot of scents.

 

[Obsessed]

Two days later and I can still smell traces of the fragrance on my jacket near where I sprayed the sample on my wrist. That may be a little too much staying power!