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Clive Christian, OBE (born 12 July 1951) [1] is a British designer best known for his designer kitchens [2] and his creation of Clive Christian No. 1, the world's most expensive perfume. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Early life
The Clive Christian perfume house was established in 1999, [2] when Clive Christian purchased the Crown Perfumery Company. The Crown Perfumery had been founded in 1872 and was granted the use of the royal crown by Queen Victoria, [3] but had come upon hard times, with declining profits and a fall in the quality of its products.
Clive Christian No. 1 is an English fragrance that was introduced in 2001 by designer Clive Christian It was marketed by parent company Crown Perfumery established in 1872. Clive Christian No. 1 was the most expensive perfume in the world as of 2006, costing $2,150 an ounce.
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The Dutch diamond-cutter Alfred Van Cleef and his father-in-law, Salomon Arpels, founded the company in 1896. In 1906, following Arpels’s death, Alfred and two of his brothers-in-law, Charles and Julien, acquired space for Van Cleef & Arpels at 22 Place Vendôme, across from the Hôtel Ritz, where Van Cleef & Arpels opened its first boutique shop. [3]
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In 2004, the company purchased luxury department store chain Barneys New York for $400 million, and sold it, in September 2007, to Dubai-based investment firm Istithmar for $942.3 million. In December 2013, Sycamore Partners , which is managed by Stefan L. Kaluzny, purchased the Jones Group for about US$ 2.2 billion.