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February 2007 Archive
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 Osmoz has a very interesting series of interviews of some of the new generation of perfume designers. They have interviewed Le Labo, Céline Ellena, Juliette Has A Gun, Aurélien Guichard, Stéphanie de Saint Aignan, Etat Libre d'Orange, Marie Salamagne, and Frank Völkl. Who's Next?
 Miomia will offer a 10 % discount to the "lovely readers of The Scented Salamander" as well as a free sample chosen at their discretion and upon availability of an Histoires de Parfums fragrance with each purchase of a perfume from the line.....
Continue reading "Miomia Offers a 10% Discount + Free Sample to TSS' Readers on the Histoires de Parfums Line {Shopping Tip}" »
 L'Antimatière is one of the three scents from a triptyque of perfumes created by nose Isabelle Doyen for a new perfume brand called Les Nez: Parfums d'Auteurs (The Noses: Authors' Perfumes), which was established in the fall of 2006. Isabelle Doyen is also the in-house perfumer for the house of Annick Goutal where she created perfumes noted for their beauty and originality sometimes but not for their avant-garde or l'art-pour-l'art characteristics. Les Nez reveals her more modernistic, daring, and experimental side. Stefan Zweig and Jorge Luis Borges, I have been told by the founder of Les Nez, were the literary supports of their brainstorming sessions for the perfumery project.
The person behind the concept of the new label is René Schifferlé, a businessman and fragrance collector from Switzerland with a demanding sense of the creative possibilities offered by today's perfumery, who decided one day that the vaccuum he perceived to exist needed to be filled with certain perfumes of the future that were, he felt, simply "lacking" from the market.....
Continue reading "L'Antimatière by Les Nez {Perfume Review & Musings}" »
The Australian has an article where they interview Chris Sheldrake on Les Exclusifs de Chanel. This article answers a question I had regarding his role in the creation of the latest Chanel fragrances...
Continue reading "An Article About Perfume The Movie, Chris Sheldrake & Les Exclusifs & A Question Answered {The 5th Sense in the News}" »
Tom Ford announced that his Private Blend collection will launch in about 8 weeks coinciding with the opening of his store. The collection comprise 12 scents that are marketed as being unisex although the designer admitted that 6 of them will probably appeal more to women and the 6 others to men. He finally settled the issue by stressing that the Private Blend fragrances are mostly meant to reach out to connoisseurs, i.e., people who don't care about these distinctions. Distribution will be very limited, not more than 5 selling-points in the US alone.....
Continue reading "Private Blend by Tom Ford {New Perfumes}" »
Barbara Witkowska has an article on Les Exclusifs de Chanel in which she describes the reeditions of the four initial ones too: No 22, Gardénia, Bois des Iles, and Cuir de Russie. Les 10 contes olfactifs de Chanel Source: L'Express
  Blood and Sand in Nîmes by loran_denim
Vierges et Toreros (Virgins and Toreros) is one of the two new perfumes launched by the niche perfume house Etat Libre d'Orange, established 2006, whose collection now comprises 13 scents. The fragrance was created by Antoine Lie and Antoine Maisondieu and contains notes of bergamot, pepper, cardamom, nutmeg, tuberose, ylang, leather, animalic base, costus, patchouli, and vetiver.....
Continue reading "Vierges & Toreros by Etat Libre D'Orange {Perfume Review & Musings} {Men's Cologne of the Week}" »
While the king sitteth at his table,
my spikenard sendeth forth the fragrance thereof.
A bundle of myrrh is my well beloved unto me:
he shall lie all night between my breasts.
My beloved is unto me as a cluster of henna flowers
in the vineyards of Engedi. Picture: Cantique des Cantiques V by Marc Chagall
The leather goods brand Coach is ready to launch its first ever scent this April 2007. The perfume was developed in collaboration with Firmenich and includes top notes of tart green mandarin, guava, violet petals and water lily; a heart of genet flower, honey, orange flower, mimosa and jasmine, and a drydown of sandalwood, amber wood and vanilla.....
Continue reading "1st Perfume by Coach Will Launch in April 2007 {New Perfume}" »
Private Collection by Estée Lauder was launched in 1973 after having been part of Estée Lauder's own very private collection of fragrances - at least this is how the story goes - only shared at one point with a few friends, in particular Grace Kelly to whom she offered it as a gift in the years preceding its official launch. It is reported to have been a favorite of the Duchess of Windsor as well. Finally, pressured by multiple admirers of the fragrance, Lauder gave in and decided to market it. As the advertising copy read "All you need is one beautiful drop to know why Estée Lauder was keeping Private Collection perfume to herself."
The scent of privilege that Private Collection exudes has resisted this movement of democratization and despite the fact that it is now available easily through the Estée Lauder website at a most amicable price, it might still select its wearers through its olfactory branding of money, luxury, and class. This branding becomes even more apparent when one looks at the succession of advertisements throughout the years that have pointed to the ideal Private Collection woman: she is ever the incarnation of chic and her natural environment is the living room or reception space in which she welcomes her guests as she is emblematically pictured as the most suave of hostesses. The fragrance has consistently been marketed as a formal perfume although its green notes lend it an active, day-time character too which makes it versatile enough.
My perception of the popularity of the perfume today is that it is one of the less mainstream Estée Lauder perfumes, comparable in that respect to Estée, Spellbound, Azurée, and Alliage, but that amongst those who know it and carry it off well, it is very much appreciated......
Continue reading "Private Collection by Estée Lauder {Perfume Review & Musings}" »
 Perfume "As a child, rummaging around in the drawers of my beloved, oh so beautiful Mama, the desk made of mahogany and cut glass, I found an empty perfume bottle which still retained the potent scent of an unidentified fragrance. Many times I'd sneak over and sniff at it. I associated this fragrance with all the love, tenderness, friendship, longing, sadness in the world. But for me all these feelings were bound up for me with my Mama. Later, fate fell unsuspected, like a horde of Huns and inflicted heavy losses all around (please read on.....)
Continue reading "Scented Quote of the Day, from Peter Altenberg:" »
 Each year, Yves Saint-Laurent proposes a new interesting twist on the classic Opium in a summer limited edition of the fragrance. This time, the orchid, a flower favored by the empress of China is the basis of the inspiration for the new scent called Opium Eau d'Orient Orchidée de Chine (Opium Eau of the Orient, Orchid from China.) Besides the characteristic spicy notes of Opium, the perfume has also notes of mandarin, neroli, orchid, jasmin, carnation, amber, vanilla, patchouli, and iris. The scent will be available from Mars 2007 and will retail for 55 Euros for a flacon of 100 ml. Source: Cosmoty.de
 Azzaro is launching a duo of perfumes called Now Women and Now Men which will be presented in high-tech style packagings. Now Women is described as a soft floral aldehydic fragrance and was composed by Annie Buzantian and Alberto Morillas. Now Men is said to be a metallic woody green fragrance and was created by Christophe Raynaaud and Lucas Sieuzac. Source: Osmoz
One of the comments we received lately is about the reformulation of Mitsouko. A reader, Twitchly, wrote to Guerlain and received an answer from Isabelle Rousseau from Customer Relationship. Here is the comment and the correspondence:
Continue reading "Roundup of Comments: The Reformulation of Mitsouko by Guerlain is Publicly Confirmed {The Readers Talk Back}" »
"At Moocock, an informal dinner awaited and a lively fire burned in cool air fresh with the scents of flowers. "It's very romantic" Fredericka said. "I've never understood what it is," Freddy replied, "that moves women to think that a bunch of burning paraffin sticks and some flowers have anything to do with that awful word, romantic." (please read on....)
Continue reading "Scented Quote of the Day, from Mark Helprin:" »
February 2007 Archive
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"Guerlain recently confirmed in email to me that they have indeed reformulated Mitsouko. If you read between the lines, it's apparent that they have removed the oakmoss, at the very least. Here is the text:.......