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🌹 RARE VINTAGE COLLECTION: Versace Woman by Versace for Women | 5 Options | 2 Batch-Dated Tester Boxes (2018 & 2014) + 2-Piece Vintage Set (Golden Box) + 2x 3-Piece Sets | Michel Almairac 2000 | Italian Luxury
🌹 RARE VINTAGE COLLECTION: Versace Woman by Versace for Women | 5 Options | 2 Batch-Dated Tester Boxes (2018 & 2014) + 2-Piece Vintage Set (Golden Box) + 2x 3-Piece Sets | Michel Almairac 2000 | Italian Luxury
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🌹 The Most Profound Rose in the Versace Archive — Versace Woman for Women
Versace Woman EDP for Women is one of the most profound, most unexpected, and most deeply beautiful feminine fragrances in the entire modern Versace fragrance archive — a landmark composition created by master perfumer Michel Almairac and launched in 2000 that marked a decisive artistic turn for the Versace house at the opening of the new millennium: away from the theatrical, opulent, and boldly colorful Versace feminine aesthetic of the Gianni era, and toward something more introspective, more quietly magnificent, more mysterious, and more deeply personal. It is, by widespread critical consensus in the fine fragrance community, one of the greatest rose fragrances of the contemporary era — a composition that takes the rose, one of the oldest and most over-used of all fragrance materials, and renders it with a freshness, a depth, and a complexity that feels simultaneously ancient and utterly contemporary. Available here in 5 exceptional presentations spanning multiple vintage batch codes: two batch-dated EDP tester boxes (2018 Batch 8131Y and 2014 Batch 40092P), a rare 2-piece vintage set in hard golden box (Batch P00623Y1: 1.7 oz EDP + 3.4 oz Luminous Body Lotion), and two 3-piece sets (1.7 oz EDP + 1.7 oz body lotion + 1.7 oz shower gel) — a collector’s opportunity of genuine distinction across the Versace Woman vintage archive.
📖 The House, The Perfumer & The Fragrance History
- Gianni Versace (1946–1997): Born Giovanni Maria Versace on 2 December 1946 in Reggio Calabria, Calabria — the southernmost region of the Italian peninsula, shaped by the ancient ruins of Magna Graecia (the Greek colonial civilization of southern Italy, including the great Doric temples of Paestum, Agrigento, and Selinunte) that became the deepest source of Gianni’s extraordinary visual imagination; son of dressmaker Francesca and salesman Antonio Versace; moved to Milan in 1972; launched Versace in 1978; built one of the most globally recognizable luxury fashion empires of the late 20th century; murdered on the steps of Casa Casuarina (“the Versace Mansion,” 1116 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach; purchased 1992 for $2.95 million; transformed at a cost of $33 million with 24-karat gold mosaic-tiled pool and hand-painted ceilings) on 15 July 1997, age 50, returning from his morning coffee at the News Café
- Donatella Versace (born 1955) — Creative Director of Versace Woman: Born Donatella Francesca Versace on 2 May 1955 in Reggio Calabria — Gianni’s younger sister, his lifelong creative muse, and the person who knew his aesthetic vision most completely; assumed the Creative Director role at Versace in 1997 following Gianni’s murder; Versace Woman (2000) was one of the first major Versace fragrance launches under Donatella’s full creative authority as head of the house — and its turn toward quiet, introspective beauty was a deliberate and significant artistic statement: that Versace, under Donatella, could achieve not only theatrical glamour but also the deepest and most subtle forms of feminine beauty
- Santo Versace (born 1944): Born Giovanni Santo Versace on 7 December 1944 in Reggio Calabria — Gianni’s older brother; President and CEO; the business architect of the Versace empire
- Michel Almairac — The Perfumer: One of the most distinguished and most historically significant fine fragrance perfumers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries — a perfumer of extraordinary technical mastery, extraordinary aesthetic sensitivity, and extraordinary range; creator of fragrance landmarks including Habit Rouge (Guerlain, reformulation), Dior Homme (Christian Dior, 2005, with Olivier Polge), and dozens of other significant fine fragrance compositions; at Versace Woman (2000), Almairac achieved what many fragrance critics and enthusiasts consider one of his most complete and most beautiful works: a rose soliflore of extraordinary depth that demonstrates why the rose, handled by a master, remains the most inexhaustible and most endlessly fascinating of all floral fragrance materials
- Versace Woman — The Composition (2000): Launched in 2000 as one of the first significant Versace fragrance releases of the Donatella era — a profound departure from the bold, theatrical, opulently colorful feminines of the Gianni years (Versace L’Homme, Blonde, Red Jeans, Blue Jeans, Gianni Versace) and a turn toward something more deeply introspective, more quietly magnificent, and more personally beautiful; the composition is built around a rose of extraordinary complexity and extraordinary depth — not the warm, opulent, jam-like rose of many oriental feminines, nor the fresh, dewy, slightly green rose of many contemporary feminines, but a cool, crystalline, slightly powdery, deeply introspective rose of great compositional intelligence and great lasting beauty; supported by a violet leaf accord that adds a cool, slightly metallic, slightly green transparency, and grounded in a base of sandalwood, musk, and amber that gives the composition extraordinary lasting power and extraordinary skin intimacy; the vintage formulations (particularly the 2014 and earlier batch codes) are increasingly prized by the fine fragrance community for their fuller, richer, more complex character compared to later productions
- The Versace Woman Bottle: One of the most elegant and most artistically restrained Versace fragrance bottle designs — a clean, architecturally precise form that departs deliberately from the more ornate Versace bottle aesthetic, expressing the composition’s own turn toward quiet, introspective beauty rather than theatrical spectacle; the bottle itself is a statement about the kind of beauty Versace Woman represents
- Fragrance Family: Rose Soliflore / Cool Powdery Floral / Introspective Italian Luxury Feminine
- Country of Origin: Italy 🇮🇹
🌹 Scent Profile — Cool, Crystalline & Profoundly Beautiful
- Top Notes: Rose, violet leaf, bergamot, peach, aldehydes
- Heart Notes: Rose absolute, iris, peony, muguet, jasmine
- Base Notes: Sandalwood, musk, amber, civet, white woods
Versace Woman opens with an immediate, crystalline, slightly cool burst of the most purely beautiful rose imaginable — not warm, not sweet, not jam-like, but cool, clean, slightly dewy, and of extraordinary transparency; violet leaf adding a cool, slightly metallic, slightly green freshness that gives the opening its most distinctive and most immediately captivating quality, creating a transparency and a luminosity around the rose that makes it seem almost luminous with inner light; bergamot providing a slightly citrus brightness that lifts the whole opening into something airy and effortlessly beautiful; peach adding a very subtle, very soft, very elegant fruitiness that prevents the opening from ever becoming austere; aldehydes contributing a slight powdery diffusiveness of great classical elegance. The heart is where Versace Woman achieves its most complete and most genuinely extraordinary beauty — rose absolute at the absolute center: the most complete, most complex, most multi-faceted form of rose — simultaneously cool and warm, simultaneously fresh and deep, simultaneously transparent and rich, a rose of extraordinary compositional intelligence that reveals new facets with every hour of wear; iris adding a cool, powdery, slightly earthy depth of great classical elegance; peony providing a fresh, slightly rosy luminosity; muguet (lily of the valley) contributing a fresh, dewy, slightly translucent floral brightness; jasmine adding a warm, slightly animalic depth that grounds the composition in genuine sensuality without ever overwhelming the rose. The base is extraordinary in its depth, its warmth, and its lasting power — sandalwood providing smooth, creamy, woody elegance, musk extending the fragrance into a lasting, deeply personal, skin-close trail of great intimacy, amber enveloping everything in a very gentle golden warmth, civet adding the characteristic warm, slightly animalic, deeply personal depth of the great oriental-influenced feminine tradition, white woods providing clean lasting structure; this base is magnificent on warm skin and becomes more beautiful and more personal with every hour of wear. The vintage formulations — particularly the 2014 Batch 40092P and earlier — are prized for a fuller, richer, more complex expression of these qualities.
📦 Choose Your Option — 5 Vintage Presentations Available
Option 1 — 1.7 fl.oz / 50 ml EDP Spray — Tester Box — 2018 Batch Code: 8131Y
Versace Woman EDP in the 1.7 oz / 50 ml format — tester box presentation; new, unused; 2018 production, Batch Code 8131Y documented. Tester box presentation: identical juice to retail, no formulation difference.Option 2 — 1.7 fl.oz / 50 ml EDP Spray — Tester Box — 2014 Batch Code: 40092P
Versace Woman EDP in the 1.7 oz / 50 ml format — tester box presentation; new, unused; 2014 production, Batch Code 40092P documented. The older 2014 vintage batch, increasingly prized by the fine fragrance community for its fuller, richer, more complex character. A genuine collector’s tester.Option 3 — 2-Piece Vintage Set — Hard Golden Box — Batch Code: P00623Y1
The rare Versace Woman 2-piece vintage set in its hard golden presentation box, comprising:
• 1.7 fl.oz / 50 ml Versace Woman Eau de Parfum Spray
• 3.4 fl.oz / 100 ml Luminous Perfumed Body Lotion
Batch Code P00623Y1 documented. The golden hard box presentation is one of the most beautiful and most collectible Versace Woman gift set formats — a vintage set of genuine rarity and genuine collector’s significance.Option 4 — 3-Piece Set — Hard Display Box — Storage Life Marks
The Versace Woman 3-piece set in hard display box, comprising:
• 1.7 fl.oz / 50 ml Versace Woman Eau de Parfum Spray
• 1.7 fl.oz / 50 ml Luminous Perfumed Body Lotion
• 1.7 fl.oz / 50 ml Luminous Perfumed Bath & Shower Gel
Hard display box with minor storage life marks; the complete Versace Woman body ritual in one set; condition reflected in pricing.Option 5 — 3-Piece Set — Hard Display Box — Tape Removal Marks
The Versace Woman 3-piece set in hard display box, comprising:
• 1.7 fl.oz / 50 ml Versace Woman Eau de Parfum Spray
• 1.7 fl.oz / 50 ml Luminous Perfumed Body Lotion
• 1.7 fl.oz / 50 ml Luminous Perfumed Bath & Shower Gel
Hard display box with tape removal marks on the box exterior; fragrances themselves new and unused; condition reflected in pricing.
⚠️ Condition Notes & Vintage Batch Guide
🌹 Option 1 (2018 Tester — Batch 8131Y): New, unused EDP; tester box; 2018 production documented by batch code.
🌹 Option 2 (2014 Tester — Batch 40092P): New, unused EDP; tester box; 2014 production documented by batch code; increasingly prized vintage year.
🌹 Option 3 (2-Piece Set — Golden Box — Batch P00623Y1): New, unused; hard golden box; 1.7 oz EDP + 3.4 oz body lotion; batch documented; rare vintage set format.
🌹 Option 4 (3-Piece Set — Storage Marks): New, unused fragrances; hard display box with minor storage life marks; condition reflected in pricing.
🌹 Option 5 (3-Piece Set — Tape Removal Marks): New, unused fragrances; hard display box with tape removal marks on exterior; condition reflected in pricing.
Vintage Batch Note: Batch codes 8131Y (2018) and 40092P (2014) and P00623Y1 are documented vintage productions. The fine fragrance community increasingly prizes earlier batch productions of Versace Woman for their fuller, richer, more complex character. All fragrances new and unused regardless of batch year.
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⚡ Why Versace Woman Is the Ultimate Donatella-Era Collector’s Feminine
- 🌹 Versace Woman (2000) — by Michel Almairac; one of the greatest rose fragrances of the contemporary era; Donatella Versace’s first major fragrance statement as head of the house; a decisive turn toward quiet, introspective beauty; cool crystalline rose of extraordinary depth
- 🇮🇹 By Versace: Gianni (born Giovanni Maria Versace, Reggio Calabria, 2 December 1946; died Miami Beach, 15 July 1997, age 50 — Casa Casuarina, $2.95M / $33M / 24K gold mosaic pool; murdered returning from News Café); Donatella (born 2 May 1955): Creative Director since 1997; Santo (born 7 December 1944): President & CEO
- 🌹 Cool crystalline rose absolute + violet leaf (luminous transparency) + iris, peony, muguet, jasmine + sandalwood, musk, amber, civet; the most introspective and most quietly magnificent of all Versace feminines
- 🗓️ 3 batch codes documented: 8131Y (2018), 40092P (2014), P00623Y1 — vintage productions increasingly prized by the fine fragrance community
- 🎁 Rare golden box 2-piece set (Option 3: 1.7 oz EDP + 3.4 oz body lotion, Batch P00623Y1) — one of the most beautiful and most collectible Versace Woman set formats
- 🛡️ 100% Authentic Versace, ships fast from US
Versace Woman is the most quietly magnificent and most deeply beautiful fragrance in the entire Versace feminine canon — Michel Almairac’s rose soliflore masterpiece, launched under Donatella Versace’s new creative direction in 2000, available here in five exceptional vintage presentations spanning three documented batch codes. For the collector who understands that the deepest beauty is always the most silent.
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