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October 2006 Archive
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 Beauty Bureau’s founder, Maryann Mihalopoulos first created Xçla Aromasticks, a line of home fragrance reed diffusers after a trip she made to Greece in 2001. Seeing the opportunity of bringing her more upscale home fragrances to the mass market, Mihalopoulos introduced Stick Scents in October of 2005 with a suggested retail price point of $24.99 for an 8oz. reed diffuser. The quality of the essential oils remains the same but the packaging is less expensive...
Continue reading "Fragrance News: Stick Scents Home Fragrances Will Hit Drugstore Chains (with New Holiday Scents)" »
 Bath & Body Works will introduce three new perfumes this fall called Seductive Perfume Mist Japanese Cherry Blossom, Sensual Amber, and Warm Vanilla Sugar in their Signature Collection. The perfumes will be available by the 10th of November 2006.
Japanese Cherry Blossom is described as "An intensely feminine interpretation of the fragrance you love, uniquely nuanced in a Perfume form. To create this strikingly original scent, our master perfumers have carefully blended intoxicating blossoms from an exotic Japanese garden with hints of Asian Pear, luscious Fuji Apple, and seductive silk musk. Top notes: Asian Pear, Fuji Apple, Luscious Ume Plum Mid notes: Japanese Cherry Blossom, Golden Butterfly Lily, Kyoto Rose Petals, Delicate Mimosa, Hedione Base notes: Vanilla Rice, Imperial Amber, Silk Musk, Cinnamon Incense, Himalayan Cedarwood, Creamy Sandalwood...
Continue reading "New Perfumes: Seductive Perfume Mist Japanese Cherry Blossom, Sensual Amber, & Warm Vanilla Sugar by Bath & Body Works" »
 The Body Shop has issued four new perfumes: Neroli Jasmin, Cotton, Sequin Sparkle, and Cozy Cashmere. After testing them I can tell you in particular that Cozy Cashmere is in fact a not-so-subtle copy of Angel by Thierry Mugler. A lot of [........] (you can fill in) fruity-floral notes for the others. Neroli Jasmin retails for $20. The perfume oils retail for $14. For more information you can visit The Body Shop website.
 I have finally come up with a list of Beautiful Black Perfume Bottles. Writing down these names and comparing the bottles amongst themselves made me realize certain common points that they share and some of the ideas regarding the treatment in black of perfume bottles. I will pick a few to see if the contents match the aesthetics of the flacon. I have already come up with the thought that some perfumes should be dressed in black to convey the full impact of their personalities, like Dzing!, Femme, Youth-Dew, Royal Secret, Réglisse, Sables, Patchouli Antique, or Lonestar Memories (yes, Andy). Which brings me to think that Coffee scents, as I see it, would be enhanced by black flacons for containers although if that became a dictum it would soon become boring. When I try imagining a coffee scent held captive in a pink bottle, it somehows makes me feel ill in the stomach...
Continue reading "Beautiful Black Perfume Bottles & Smelling Black {Scented Thoughts & Perfume List}" »
 You can visit the Danielle Steel Beauty site to claim your complimentary sample of the new fragrance. For more information about the notes and for a short review of the perfume please go here.
 Koto Paris a specialist of children's fragrances introduced Elixir de Selenia on 20th of September 2006. It is aimed at girls aged 6 to 12 and includes notes of frosted mandarin, grenadine, and gooseberry. The perfume is inspired by the Luc Besson's fantasy series and upcoming movie Arthur et les Minimoys. It comes in a gift set together with a Mül-Mül bag. The set retails for 36 Euros. Source: Fashion Mag.fr
The famous Cognac brand Courvoisier is following the examples of other alcohol brands who have created liquor-inspired perfumes based on their own specialties, like Frapin 1270, Infusion, Botrytis or Le Boisé. It will introduce a fragrance called Courvoisier L'Edition Impériale in the spring of 2007, which was created by perfumer Alexis Dadier. The fragrance will be marketed as a men's cologne and will aim the 25 to 35 age group...
Continue reading "Courvoisier L'Edition Impériale {New Men's Perfume}" »
The French justice system has now forbidden the commercialization of the latest perfume release by Guerlain, Insolence, which was launched not long ago, in August 2006. Hillary Swank is the face for the fragrance...
Continue reading "Guerlain Has Been Ordered to Stop Commercializing Insolence {Fragrance News}" »
 Cosmetic News is now relaying the news regarding the verdict given on the Guerlain Insolence case last Friday October 20 2006: "French beauty brand Guerlain (LVMH) has been ordered by a Paris court to cease selling its latest fragrance, Insolence, in its current bottle. Judge Claude Vallet, who deals with urgent cases at Paris's Court of First Instance, found that the packaging by Serge Mansau, composed of three half-spheres atop each other, was too similar to a design registered by Jean-Claude Cardiet of Paris firm Cardiet Design....
Continue reading "More on the Guerlain Insolence Court Case {Fragrance News}" »
 Sephora Champs-Elysées will host a Serge Lutens perfume event this Thursday October 28 2006 at 18 h. It is dedicated to the promotions of Chypre Rouge and Fumerie Turque, the latter in a limited edition for the export line. Please note that Serge Lutens will NOT attend the event...
Continue reading "Serge Lutens Perfume Event at Sephora Champs-Elysées October 28 2006 {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses, France}" »
 West Side is the latest perfume launch by Bond no 9, an upscale niche perfume house dedicated to interpreting in fragrances the different neighborhoods of New York City. This time it is the West Side, home to Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Birdland and the Copacabana, that is honored in relation to its musical heritage. West Side is the house's 27th fragrance. The fragrance was composed by nose Michel Almairac who previously created for the same house The Scent of Peace and Fire Island. Some of his other works include the wonderful Burberry Burberry for Women, L'Artisan Voleur de Roses, Grès Cabaret, and my personal favorite hands down Gucci Pour Homme, a truly exceptional jus. West Side features top notes of rose, ylang-ylang, and peony; heart notes of sandalwood and amber; the drydown is redolent of vanilla and musk.
As West Side is meant to embody the musical beat of New York City it is described by Bond no 9 as "...an ultra-melodious eau de parfum that finds the scent equivalent for the sounds of music in its full-bodied, mellow composition, its undulating rhythms, its harmonies, its pitch—and yes, its notes. Whether they’re high or low, dark or light, sweet or sharp—notes are what music and fragrance are both about". Perfume and music are made to be even more consciously associated than is usual in perfumery with the evocation of an explicit musical imagery to guide the interpretation of the fragrance. The bold treble keys drawn on the flacons with vivid colors illustrate this artistic theme. All listening are invited to offer their own interpretations as "Fragrance, like music, is open to interpretation. Everyone who sniffs it will hear—and smell—a different melody of their own". So what is the sound of West Side on this day and as heard by this listener?...
Continue reading "West Side by Bond no 9 {Perfume Review & Musings}" »
 A large selection of fragrances from the French line Parfumerie Générale are now available at Luckyscent. You will be able to purchase: Aomassaï, Coze, Cuir Venenum, Harmatan Noir, Hyperessence Matale, Ilang Ivohibe, Intrigant Patchouli, Iris Taizo, L'Eau Rare Matale, and Yuzu Ab Irato. A 50 ml flacon retails for $80. Samples are available for $3 each or alternatively you can try the whole selection of scents as a sampler pack for $30, including two other new scents, Aroma M Geisha Marron and Susanne Lang Tambotti Wood. Source: Luckyscent
Barcelona-based Spanish women's fashion chain Mango, has introduced a new fragrance called Mango Delirium. The perfume is described as a "floral elixir" created by Puig perfumers Rosendo Mateu and Elizabeth Vidal, and Pierre Wargenye of IFF. It is packaged in a diamond-shaped bottle resembling a flower bud about to burst. "...
Continue reading "Mango Delirium by Mango {New Perfume}" »
 Lithuanian designer Juozas Statkevicius has an eponymous fragrance called Juozas Statkevicius. You can find more information (in Lithuanian) on their website. The perfume was created by perfumer Fabrice Pellegrin who is also the author of Eruption (with Gerit Van Logchen) and Hermès L'Eau Délicate Calèche. You can read his interview here (in French).  Here are a few highlights; We learn that Pellegrin loves Oriental perfumes (Féminité du Bois, Opium, Must) and is especially appreciative of Serge Lutens' very personal creations, in particular, of Ambre Sultan and Vetiver Oriental. He confesses that he wished he had created M7 by YSL. Pellegrin also points out that he was most influenced in his work by the olfactory style and creations of Michel Almairac (one of our very own favorite perfumers here at The Scented Salamander as you may have already guessed)...
Continue reading "Juozas Statkevicius Perfume {Fragrance News, Lithuania}" »
 Billet Doux (Love Letter/Note) is the latest release by Fragonard, to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the perfume house. It is a re-edition and an adaptation of an original fragrance from the 1950s from the house's catalogue. The name of the perfume itself was inspired by a painting bearing the same name by Jean-Honoré Fragonard; the house was named after the painter. According to Fragonard, Billet Doux "... pays homage to the most beautiful flowers of the French Riviera: Sweet William carnation, peony and frangipani with accords of bergamot, lemon and mandarin all on a soft background of cedar, vanilla and musk".  Billet Doux is a priori a soft carnation fragrance offering discreet but unexpected developments thanks to the significant additions of frangipani and orris. It evolves from being soft, powdery, and gently spicy to being creamy, mellow, and discreetly lush, then rootey.The contrast between these different stages of the development gives it its character. The drydown is a light combination of deliciously understated vanilla and faintly smokey cedar wood with rootey overtones with the orris peaking through much later in the drydown...
Continue reading "Billet Doux by Fragonard {Perfume Review & Musings}" »
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