[unpaid/sample] If you’ve read this site for a while, you’ll have seen that during lock-down I resurrected my Estee Lauder Solid Fragrance collection, re-shot them and posted all about them individually which of course, reignited my interest. It wasn’t appropriate to write about beauty as such when things were so worrying – I barely wore any make-up, never mind wondered what was new – so I went through all the items (as well as Estee Lauder) that I’d collected from over the years instead. Nothing to buy, just to look and to keep a sense of rhythm about those strange days (f you want to see them again, put ‘estee lauder solid fragrance’ in my search bar). I asked a little while back, when I saw that Estee Lauder was combining with Disney again, this time all things Mickey related, if I could borrow a couple to shoot and a couple of weeks ago, this one arrived as a gift to me.
I mean, what can cheer you up more than a figurine of Minnie Mouse enjoying a deliciously bubbly bath? All the figurines are designed by jeweller, Monica Rich Kossan.
Estee Lauder Solid Fragrance The Magic Of MickeyTo access the fragrance, you flip up the bubbles (and poor Minnie!) and you’ll find the bath tub is full of Pleasures solid perfume. The inside lid is embossed with the year (very useful for collectors) and the name of the piece which is Caring Is In The Little Things.
I notice that they’ve brought the Gingerbread House (in the USA so far) back for their seasonal collection – I have the original from 2000 (HERE) and the only difference I can spot is that instead of just ‘rubies’ dotting the roof, it’s diamonds and rubies. Otherwise, it’s the same. The new Estee Lauder x Mickey collection has just launched into Harrods – they’re not cheap – Minnie in the bath is £350 HERE, but what a precious thing to have! There’s also a Mickey Mouse holding balloons, £350 HERE, and a little push along striped suitcase with red jewels and a gold Mickey outline, £350 HERE.
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I feel like a heel for saying this, but I’m over cartoon characters in makeup. I don’t want to speak too strongly because I know a lot of people have other feelings about this but I do not want a crossover between makeup for adults and cartoons targeted to children and there are a lot of them. When I was a child trawling through my mom’s and grandmothers’ cosmetic collections, there was nary a whiff of juvenalia to them and the sophistication and worldliness was the entire point.
I love that gingerbread house but the peppermint swirly pop is amazing. For a real treat I wish that Lauder would bring back some disappeared fragrances at Christmas. I bought a decant of Pavillion, for example, and I love it so, so much, one of those ones you don’t want to use up because it’s so good and you know there’s no more.
Don’t feel like a heel – you’re allowed your opinion, especially here! My view on it is more of reminiscence of my own childhood – I remember, for example, seeing Hello Kitty in Hamleys on a trip to London when I was about 10 years old and was smitten from that very day. I also love anything Kawaii which of course has its own cultural points in Japan that aren’t really so much linked to children but to the expression of emotions. I agree that children-targeted products can problematic but in this case, it’s very much an adult fragrance and an adult price 🙂 I don’t think I’ve ever smelled Pavillion – but now there’s nothing I want to smell more!
White Linen launched as a trio back in the day (‘78) with Celadon (which I haven’t found a decant of) and Pavilion. I still love White Linen – I very rarely wear fragrance anymore but applied sparingly it’s just art – but Pavilion is just so, so pretty.
I love Private Collection and you don’t see that around much.