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 Here's a great article on truffles. Truffle accords are also used in perfumery such as in Une Rose by Frederic Malle, Black Orchid and Noir de Noir (black truffle) by Tom Ford, and Sienne L'Hiver (white truffle) by Eau d'Italie Le Sirenuse.
"Both Black Périgord and White Alba truffles can transform what would otherwise be a mere culinary masterpiece into a quasi mystical dining experience.[...].......
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 The DVD of Perfume, The Story of a Murderer is going to be released in France on May 4th 2007. The US Amazon site is not yet offering a release date. Apart from the movie, the DVD Collector Edition of Perfume will comprise two discs with a number of extras that will rejoice perfumistas.......
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 The Fragrance Foundation USA announced several initial award winners as well as the top five finalists for the Fifi Awards 2007. The final award ceremony will take place on May 31st 2007.
At the breakfast for the finalists, the four FiFi Award recipients were:
Editorial Excellence in Fragrance Coverage – Women’s Scent Feature
•ELLE – “Making Scents, Shop Talk” – December 2006
Editorial Excellence in Fragrance Coverage – Women’s Scent Bite
•ELLE – “Vision Quest” – September 2006
Editorial Excellence in Fragrance Coverage – Men’s Feature
•GQ – “Stop and Smell…Haitian Vetiver?” – December 2006
Technological Breakthrough of the Year
•Crescent House Publishing - Scentsa Fragrance Finder The top 5 finalists in the different categories were:.......
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 Perfumer Beth Schiffrin of Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has created a series of 7 fragrances called The Carousel to pay homage to author Neil Gaiman. They were inspired by some of the most beloved characters of the novelist found in two of his most popular novels, The Anansi Boys and American Gods......
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 Etat Libre d'Orange have come up with another release. So far it is the most provocatively titled, for me at least, as Charogne (Carrion). Just to read the name and the description makes my stomach turn. They in fact allude to the process of physical decomposition mentioning a skin that is soft, melting, and almost transparent.
Charogne
The jewelry brand Les Gens du Sud (The People from the South) is now offering a quatuor of scents to expand their brand image. The fragrances are called Chic-Chic, Clémarine, Magic Ethnic, and Mystica 48. In five years the founders Jean-Pierre Paul and Yannick Tartrou have succeeded in establishing their brand in 30 countries. They specialize in jewelry offering a wealth of charms and borrowing the look of recycled vintage baubles, all this with a definite ethnic flair.....
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 Profumum or Pro Fumum Roma a niche Italian brand of perfumes specializing in scents of outstanding quality has released two new perfumes called Volo Az 686 and Alba. To read more about the history of the brand check our previous post.......
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Coney Island is the upcoming new release by Bond no9 which will be available from June 1st with pre-orders ready to be taken on May 15. It is the 29th addition to their collection and like The Hamptons and Fire Island, it is a fragrance with a summery sea resort theme. Coney Island takes the marine motif and brings to it a gourmand and fruity twist together with the showcasing of a savory and boozey accord of Margarita. The latter alludes to the relaxing image of a cocktail sipped on the beach and at the same time is the only perceptible reference to the sense of excess that seemed to inhabit that locale, at least in its heydays.  There are several Coney Islands and obviously the fragrance wishes to support the idea of the gentrification of the resort rather than allude to the mounds of hot dogs, knishes and the musky mingling of a million bodies, as could be experienced on Sundays from the 1920s onwards when the working class rushed to its shore thanks to the newly constructed subway in an era that came to be known as the Nickel Empire. Artists were so struck by the hard-to-fathom over-population of its beachfront that it became a common theme in paintings of Coney Island.
If at other times, Coney Island served as the backdrop of a crime scene in noir movies where its lack of measure translated into an atmosphere flickering with too many lights, resounding with too many people and their screams hesitating between delight and terror all gorged with street food, an atmosphere condusive to the covering up of a silent shady murder, Coney Island the fragrance is the untainted version of its sinful unruly sides. There is even redemption in the ultimate message of distinction and exquisiteness it distillates.......
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Aerin Lauder, the grand-daughter of Estée Lauder wants to revive the sense of exclusivity that accompanied the creation of the original Private Collection in the 1970s. It was a scent created for and worn by Estée Lauder and which she at first shared with only a few friends. In keeping with this tradition, the company is going to launch Private Collection Tuberose Gardenia in August of 2007. The jus is based on Estée Lauder's two favorite flowers. The line will be more expensive than usual as the Lauder perfumes are known for their image of affordable luxury. The parfum concentration in the bejeweled flacon will retail for $300.....
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Flamboyant baroque designer Christian Lacroix is preparing to launch two new perfumes called Rouge (Red) and Noir (Black). The first one is for women and the second one for men. The perfumes were created in partnership with Avon as the company wishes to develop their credentials in the fashion world and Christian Lacroix is interested in reaching the mass market and developing its brand image in the broader market......
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Nina Ricci is is releasing a limited edition of Love in Paris called Love in Paris Fleur de Pivoine (Love in Paris Peony Flower). It pays homage to the feathery beauty of the spring flower peony and love in Paris. The jus was worked like a soliflore.......
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 Hermès will launch a new feminine fragrance in July of 2007 called Kelly Calèche in reference both to the Kelly bag (1930) inspired by Grace Kelly and Calèche (1961), one of the house's pillar fragrances. It is their first major feminine launch since 2004 and Eau des Merveilles. The jus was composed by in-house perfumer Jean Claude Ellena.....
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 Guerlain has released a new, extreme version of its classic fragrance Vetiver created in 1959 by Jean Paul Guerlain. It is called Vetiver Extrême and was designed for ‘a man who lives for adventure yet remains rooted in his classic background.’.....
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Jacomo is launching a new men's fragrance targeting men in their thirties. It is called Jacomo for Men and centers on a vetiver note......
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 The winners for the UK Fifi awards 2007 were announced yesterday. Best New Prestige Female Fragrance went to Christian Provenzano's Maîtresse by Agent Provocateur. Best New Prestige Male Fragrance went to Jean Claude Ellena's Terre d'Hermès by Hermès.......
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Tommy Bahama has released a limited edition duet of perfumes with a nautical theme for this summer. They are called Set Sail St. Barts for Women and Set Sail St. Barts for Men. These inaugurate a collection of perfumes that will be dedicated each time to an island of the Caribbean. Set Sail St. Barts for Women has top notes of Tequila sorbet, lime; heart notes are Caribbean floral notes. Base notes are white sand, musk, guaiacwood......
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Like the laying out of the 12 first steps of an Inca pyramid made of black onyx, we now have been offered the 12 building blocks of the Tom Ford fragrance house. The 12 scents of the new line are called Amber Absolute, Noir de Noir, Velvet Gardenia, Black Violet, Tobacco Vanille, Oud Wood, Purple Patchouli, Bois Rouge, Moss Breches, Tuscan Leather, Neroli Portofino and Japan Noir. The scents are described as perfumes constructed around a main note folded into secondary notes. In this manner and despite the richness of their textures the perfumes are not particularly complex. They offer dense, heavily textured sensations most of the time, but not necessarily deep and multi-layered in the longer term. The notes themselves have a certain depth - they are fleshy, often opulent -but the structures of the perfumes are rather straightforward. Often one gets an opening stage as discrete as the blasting of a police siren on an empty Sunday morning street followed by some relinquishing, a renewed, often invasive presence, and then a clean-shaved impression of a drydown.
A line of continuity with Black Orchid is apparent as the concept of a sub-genre of dark tropical juices with slightly nefarious accents endures, meanders into new territories and draws a geographical map of Tom Ford's desires and obsessions. "It's rare that I like a very light floral," he says. "I'm rarely drawn to roses, for example. I'm more a tuberose, gardenia, jasmine, sort of deeper, sort of heady ... heady ... heady...."..........
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The Musée Christian Dior à Granville is organizing a new exhibition celebrating the 60 years of the fashion house and the 10 years of the museum. The exhibit is called 60 Années Hautes En Couleur (60 Colorful Years). It will run from May 13 to September 23 2007 (the information is not yet up on the site).....
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 Shedonism is the latest perfume by Origins and is inspired by a Tahitian ceremony centering on a Tiare blossom. "On the fabled tropical island of Tahiti, the “society of she” is still celebrated with playful passion. There the women wear a fragrant, snow-white Tiaré blossom that holds a special meaning. According to tradition, when the flower is worn behind the left ear, it says her love is taken. Worn on the opposite ear, it means her heart is fancy free. And when she waves the Tiare behind her head, it signals "Follow me"."If you like tiare and beachy scents, then Shedonism might be a good option. It is not original by any means, but is a good functional summery skin scent that is to be used as a mist.......
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 The new perfume for men by Cerruti called Cerruti Pour Homme is described as a combination of Italian chic and French seduction in which one can find an alliance of contrasts, the simple freshness of the top notes being followed by the depth of a woody accord in the base notes.......
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Around the time of the 60th Cannes Cinema Festival (16-27 mai 2007), Jo Malone will open a new boutique on the 10th of May 2007 near the Croisette. People are invited to discover the joys of "fragrance combining"and their best-seller, Lime Basil and Mandarin.
Address: 25, rue d'Antibes. Source: Au Féminin
The latest Vivienne Westwood fragrance Boudoir Sin Garden is now available online at Hervia, a UK retailer specializing in Vivienne Westwood Products. It retails for 32 Pounds. Buyers outside of the UK and EU are tax-exempt. Source: Daily Mail
 Iris Poudre (Powdery Iris) starts with a little olfactory shock: the name prepared you to experience a riot of powder, instead you are struck by the luminosity of the fragrance and associate two main notes, iris and aldehydes. The powderiness however is there but its presence is subtle enough to be felt more as an abstraction - powderiness - than a reality - powder. Instead of having the powderiness titillate your nose as all obvious interpretations of the dustiness of iris do, in this case it is present but as if it were far in the distance like a mist hanging behind a line of dark trees in the countryside. Iris Poudre is an ultra sophisticated rendition of iris, one that both accomodates its rustic references and its more elegant aspects, pulling it firmly in the direction of the latter. If Iris Silver Mist by Maurice Roucel for Serge Lutens finally gives away its rustic character underneath its elegant development, Iris Poudre considers it from the start but keeps it at a distance.......
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