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 Rosewood Hotels are going against the grain of the trend set by some public perfume phobes. They have created a new service meant to associate perfume and luxury even more explicitly than usual by offering to cater to the traveler's essence whims. Fragrance butlers will now bring you a silver perfume tray to your door covered with an assortment of fragrances for you to choose from, if you so desire...
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 Le Monde reports today that a group of some of the biggest and best-known perfume houses and labels in France have been condemned for price fixing, an unfair and in fact illegal practice which attempts to curb competition by harmonizing prices to maintain them at their highest levels possible. The group of brands highlighted, which includes both prestigious perfume houses like Guerlain and Hermès and household-name distributors like Sephora and Marionnaud, will have to pay a total fine amounting to more than 40 millions of Euros...
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 For people who love perfumes and who furthermore love to analyze perfumes, there is a ready-made gift for them: Jo Malone Red Roses Chronicle in the latest 2012 edition. The brand has taken to telling scented stories around a perfume extirpated from their permanent collection with the added intrigue of three scents pulled out from the initial narrative represented by the main fragrance. Those three scents, which change from year to year, take the matrix-perfume in new possible directions....
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 From January 30th 2012 to March 30th 2012, L'Artisan Parfumeur will be hosting an event organized in partnership with Tree Aid for the second consecutive time, to help plant trees in Mali. The charity's mission is advertized with the words "In Africa, trees mean life." The organization provides help and guidance in generating skills and income around reforestation actions at the community level. This particular African country was selected to pay homage to Timbuktu, a fragrance composed by perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour, which is inspired by a travel he undertook there...
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Yesterday, on Thursday January the 26th, an official ceremony was held in the drawing-rooms rue de Valois at the French Ministry of Culture and Communication to both inaugurate the new exhibition Le Ministère est au Parfum and decorate five perfumers: Daniela Andrier, Françoise Caron, Olivier Cresp, Dominique Ropion and Maurice Roucel...
Continue reading "The French Ministry of Culture Acknowledges the Artistic & Patrimonial Status of Perfumery for the First Time {Fragrance News}" »
 Gucci will launch a new collection of five perfumes in March of 2012, each inspired by a flower depicted on the iconic floral scarf designed by Vittorio Accornero for Princess Grace of Monaco in 1966. As the story goes, on a visit to the Milan Gucci store, the Princess was asked to pick a favorite item as a gift - she suggested a scarf - but Rodolfo Gucci changed his mind and decided bespoke was needed to truly pay homage to their high-profile visitor.
Called The Garden Collection, the library features Gorgeous Gardenia, Gracious Tuberose, Glamorous Magnolia, Generous Violet and Glorious Mandarin. All are also meant to pay tribute to the "G" logo....
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 Eclat Eternel (Eternal Spark) is a sparkling, radiant white floral. It takes the genre of the white-floral bouquet, retains the opulence of this style of fragrance but makes everything feel more transparent, aquatic and light upon the unfolding of its initial head notes. A citrusy accord of grapefruit and bergamot is made to cut through the perfume to help create this effect. Bamboo-shoot nuances add hints of verdant crispness. In the background, one senses a bed of pillowy white musks, veering a bit ominously in the direction of functional perfumery. Translation: it feels like your white floral bouquet was left to sit on a softening laundry sheet saturated with molecules of hard-headed, stubborn cleanliness.
The promised luxuries of tuberose absolute and sambac jasmine absolute courtesy of Laboratoire Monique Rémy however kick in the heart bringing a new heft and richness to the composition...
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 Thierry Mugler will launch a new "fruity interpretation" of Womanity with Womanity Eau pour Elles, a "luminous and sparkling eau de toilette version" of the original. The jus is also said to be aiming for more playfulness.
Continuing to expound on Mugler's intuition about a special feminine bonding relationship expressed in the plural, the house stresses that, "Womanity Eau pour Elles is the newest expression of the bond that unites women, symbolic of a free-spirited, confident femininity, nourished by the community."....
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 To celebrate their 150th anniversary, Roget et Gallet Est. 1862, are introducing in January 2012 a "design interpretation" of the famous historical flacon called the "Rouleau de l'Empereur", the custom-made bottle of Eau de Cologne by Jean-Marie Farina that Napoleon Bonaparte had requested be made for him in order to be able to carry on with him while campaigning, by slipping it into his boots. Eau de Cologne Jean-Marie Farina, and two new Eau Fraîche Parfumée Bois d'Orange and Eau Fraîche Parfumée Fleur d'Osmanthus, are now bottled in so-called "flacons-rouleaux,"....
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I thought that it would be useful for readers to better understand my thought process when I review perfumes, to lay it out explicitly. And especially, the way I compare perfumes between themselves inside categories which allow for comparison. This system rests upon the idea that there is a shopping culture with certain biases and expectations. In this shopping culture, there are high-brow and low-brow levels from the standpoint of cultural evaluation, and there are worries also around what sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has termed "social distinction." From a perfume critic and reviewer point of view however, my evaluation efforts rest on a desire and an ideal to debunk myths and invite people to pay more attention to genuine olfactory beauty and originality by denouncing not just olfactory stereotypes, but cultural stereotypes as well, as I have found out it is more and more needed in a context where niche perfumery has tremendously expanded - if not developed that well - and become the official refuge against crass commercialism...
Continue reading "How I Think about Perfume when I Review Them: A Practical-Theoretical Outlook on the Perfume Shopping Culture {Scented Thoughts & Essays}" »
 In the fall-winter of 2011, Bristish toiletry brand Czech & Speake of Jermyn Street introduced a new scent called Vétiver Vert. The brand prefers to call their perfumes "Aromatics," a term not used elsewhere. While the perfume is not explicitly marketed to men, the house does carry on a tradition of men's fine toiletries...
Continue reading "Czech & Speake Vétiver Vert (2011) {New Fragrance} {Men's Cologne}" »
 Singer and teen icon Justin Bieber has released a special edition for his hit perfume, Someday.
"Share the Love. Make your Valentine's Day unforgettable with the SOMEDAY by JUSTIN BIEBER 3.4 oz limited edition bottle. Experience SOMEDAY in a whole new way with this heart-stopping gift from Justin to his favorite fans."...
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DKNY are evoking once more all sorts of gourmand indulgences this year with their new Sweet Delicious trio. Just to make sure no tasty cues were left out, the advert features the new macaron du jour, cupcakes, while the three gustatory perfumes offered by the brand are called Pink Macaroon, Creamy Meringue and Tart Key Lime. This is a follow-up to their sweet suite from 2010 entitled Candy Apples Collection
Macarons are so 2010 and cupcakes are so 2011 (this is a reference to the number of adverts in France which replaced one wave of adorable pastries with the other as the it-pâtisserie)...
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 Continuing their partnership with UNICEF, the Boss Orange franchise is launching a new duo of re-designed bottles of Boss Orange Man and Woman this month to help spread the message of solidarity contained in their action.
2012 is devoted to upping the ante on their humanitarian program, going from supporting a school of 50 children in Madagascar in 2011 to a much larger goal of 60 000 children this year, in the same place and through the same project, Schools for Africa...
Continue reading "Boss Orange Woman & Man Today. To Help. Together. Limited-Edition for UNICEF & Schools for Africa {Fragrance News} {New Flacons}" »
 By Kilian will launch their last chapter of the Arabian Tales next month in the US with Amber Oud. After this closing chapter you will be able to discover from May 2012 a new cycle of stories with the series 4 Asian Tales, plus a perfume named after the art it pays homage to, Water Calligraphy.
The first of the Asian Tales to be introduced in 2012 is Bamboo Harmony, inspired by "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter,"...
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