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Smell Like a Million Bucks: DKNY Sells $1M Perfume

DKNY teams with jewelry designer for luxe bottle

By Dustin Lushing, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 7, 2011 2:54 PM CST | Updated Dec 7, 2011 5:00 PM CST

(Newser) – How much do you normally smell like? Would you rather smell like a million bucks? Now it's possible. DKNY has unveiled a $1 million bottle of Golden Delicious perfume. It helps that the container is molded from 14-karat yellow and white gold and adorned with 2,700 white diamonds, 183 yellow sapphires, and a 2.43-carat yellow canary diamond, notes the Huffington Post.

Fashion model Chanel Iman, surrounded by bodyguards, presented the lavish scent at its launch at the DKNY store in New York City, and proceeds from the sale of the bottle will be donated to the Action Against Hunger charity. As for the scent: orange flower water, white rose, vanilla orchid, and golden delicious apples.

Supermodel Chanel Iman attends DKNY's Golden Delicious unveiling in New York City. (Getty Images)

Supermodel Chanel Iman attends DKNY's Golden Delicious unveiling at the DKNY Store in New York City. (Getty Images)

DKNY's Golden Delicious perfume. (Getty Images)

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