The Scented Salamander: Perfume & Beauty Blog & Webzine: May 2007

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May 30, 2007

Liberté by Cacharel {Perfume Review & Musings} {New Perfume}

Cacharel Liberté (Freedom) was presented by the brand as a concerted effort aimed at seducing the daughters of the women who wore Anaïs Anaïs, introduced in 1978. If in the middle of the feminist wars then some people pined for softer, more passive models of womanhood exemplified by the young-women-in-bloom theme of Anaïs Anaïs and fell for the popular soft erotica of photographs taken with what seemed to beVaseline-covered lenses by David Hamilton (not the photographer for Anaïs Anaïs), it appears that in an era where the job of a stay-at-home mother in the Chicago area is valued at a little less than $100 000 a year by the New York Times and more college women apparently wish to pursue careers as homemakers once they graduate, the new aspirational fragrance better be called “freedom”. Gisele Bündchen, the face for Liberté, now offers the image of an outdoorsy modern-day amazon who carries her bottle of Liberté fragrance like a flask of hard liquor in her jeans or more virtuously-put, a sports bottle. Only her romantic Cacharel shirt betrays some continuity with the old-school romantic femininity of her predecessor, Anaïs Anaïs.......

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Fleurs de Sel by Miller Harris

Fahrenheit 32 by Dior

Encens et Bubblegum By Etat Libre D'Orange

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May 31, 2007

News Flash: Olibanum, Acqua Viva by Profumum Roma {New Perfumes}

Upscale Italian niche perfume house Profumum Roma will launch two new perfumes on June 20th 2007. One is an incense scent called Olibanum. The other one is named Acqua Viva and is an hesperidic scent.

We will review Acqua di Sale today, continuing our series on salty perfumes.

(Source: Profumum Roma website)

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Vivara by Pucci

Sky by Gendarme

L'Instant Magique by Guerlain

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Acqua di Sale by Profumum {Perfume Review & Musings}

Acqua di Sale (Salt Water), by upscale Italian niche perfume house Profumum Roma is like the promise offered by those glass bottles with thick bottoms that contain a fishermen’s boat inside their bellies. Except that through the magic of perfume we are able, not just to daydream of sea voyages looking at a trinket, but also enter inside its universe and suddenly find ourselves in a Mediterranean cove on a beach between the dark blue sea and a rocky cliff shaded by intricate pine trees. There we can imagine ourselves resting, lulled by the rote of the sea while inhaling the brackish air......