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Each perfume has a history and a story to tell, some more than others it seems. When we learned that Le Labo Tubéreuse 40 had been worn by Kirsten Dunst to better enter the role of Marie-Antoinette in Sofia Coppola's biopic Marie-Antoinette about the former French queen, we wanted to ask a few questions to the founders of perfume house Le Labo who created the perfume for her. Fabrice Penot (on the left on the picture), one of the two co-founders with Edouard Roschi, answers our questions. TSS: How did it come about that Kirsten Dunst wore this perfume for her role as Marie-Antoinette in the Sofia Coppola's movie?......
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Yves Saint Laurent will launch a new feminine fragrance called Elle in October of 2007. Its flacon makes you think of the signature YSL structured, neo-classical style for his clothes as well as of the former fashion craze for fuschia and purple colors in the 1980s in France, at least. The scent is described as a woody, spicy, and floral scent. It was created by Jacques Cavallier and Olivier Cresp of Firmenich.......
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The upcoming Sarrasins by Serge Lutens, it has now been revealed, will have its jasmine-based scent colored a deep purple, hence we can now understand better that the reference to ink is partly literal as evoked by the words "petrifyingly beautiful jasmine, gloved in black ink the color of bats." Louve, an almond-based scent will, interestingly too, be colored in white. We remember seeing a milky-colored and opalescent perfume once and we absolutely loved the added charm and mystery it created. We love perfumes that frankly play with colors! PS: Please check the comment section for quick, yet precise reviews of the two perfumes by Octavian Sever Coifan of 1000 Fragrances.
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 Ralph Lauren fragrances are going to introduce a 5th fragrance in the Polo franchise called Polo Explorer for the man who "....wants to go out into the world and thrive on freedom, exploration and discovery."and further who "lives life without limits". Apparently Ralph Lauren applied this motto to the letter and overdid it a bit at the launch party for the scent in the Hamptons.......
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The DKNY Be Delicious franchise will further expand this fall with the addition of Be Delicious Night described as a sexy floriental. It aims to capture the vibrancy of New York city at night. The scent was created by Trudi Loren with perfumers from International Flavors and Fragrances Inc.......
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 To follow up on the interview with Paco Rabanne we posted about yesterday, we have additional details regarding the new Black XS for Her, which launched earlier this month in France. The scent was composed by Emilie Coppermann of Symrise and includes a mystical ingredient, Black Hellebore, reportedly used by witches of yore for its hallucinogenic properties. Paco Rabanne is well-known for his interest in astrology and the supernatural in general. He even recounted to the journalists at WWD that he had just encountered a "ghoulish presence" prior to meeting with them! Always expect the unexpected with Paco. The idea. more concretely, was to create a love potion and be attuned to Gothic sensitivities.......
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On the occasion of the launch of Black XS for Her, the feminine flanker to Black XS introduced last year, designer Paco Rabanne was interviewed on France 24. He explains that major influences in the creation of the new fragrance were the myth of Lilith and numerology, the latter which he has been practising since he was 7 years old. We also learn that his grand-mother was a shaman in the Basque country! Watch the video if you dare.....
 Fashion brand DSquared2 will launch its first men's fragrance this fall called He Wood. It is a product that plays out to the green and eco-chic sensitivities that are fast developing amongst consumers......
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Blu by Bruno Acampora starts with a visual impression that of a dark blue turquoise tinted ink of a perfume. Your finger traces a primitive character on the wrist as if you did not know how to write your name and simply knew how to trace a cross. Like an illiterate peasant then and following Acampora's instructions you concentrate on the wrists (and neck in principle) only, you trace a blue cross that slowly disappears into the skin only adding a vaguely blue glow to the skin, making your blue veins bluer. You could also decide to write a Chinese character each time that you apply the scent.......
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 Following up on the announcements for the upcoming Vivienne Westwood Let It Rock, which we reported about here and then there (watch video from Vogue), here is a picture of the flacon designed in a visually provocative style with lettering seemingly traced like graffiti on a wall with a playful fire-engine red lipstick........
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 After reviewing Vetiver by elizabethW, we are now turning our attention to four other eaux de parfum from the house: Lilac, Neroli & Chamomile, Leaves, Magnolia. The quality, we find, is uneven with Lilac standing out as the most interesting one from the selection.
Lilac is a pure, unadulterated lilac soliflore from head to toe. It is wonderfully fragrant and smells like the living flower. The scent is our favorite in this series that we were able to sample. It smells cool and bluish, very fresh, very dewy, with just the faintest hint of powder. It then further along takes on an intoxicating turn, a new intensity whithout losing its green sappy overtones. The perfume with time becomes slightly spicy-sweet like lilacs naturally are. There is nothing much to add except to stress that it is all about lilac, lilac, and then lilac again and feels exactly like you are burying your face in their petals........
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 Aedes now carries the Annick Goutal body and face care line based on rose serum. You can discover the so-called splendid line here. Also, the new Annick Goutal website is now up and running.
Women's Wear Daily has announced that Valentino will be significantly expanding its current perfume portfolio. After the recent launch of Rock 'n Rose, you can expect to see an edp version of it this fall that will be called Rock 'n Rose Couture (flacon will be covered in black Chantilly lace). Next, will come Rock 'n Rose Prêt à Porter. Finally in the fall of 2008 there will be another women's fragrance and a follow-up men's fragrance. Also in the news, Jessica Simpson will be developing a signature perfume with Parlux who has already worked with celebrities such as Maria Sharapova and Paris Hilton. Expect to see it on the shelves in July of 2008. (Source: Women's Wear Daily)
Paris Hilton will launch a new fragrance in October of 2007, for which she has chosen to express her more can can side and it will appropriately be called Can Can Paris Hilton. This is her fourth women's fragrance after Paris Hilton, Just Me, and Heiress. We can at least readily credit her for finding a more memorable name for the perfume than say P or H or Paris Hilton III or Paris or Hilton or Paris Paris or Hilton Hilton.....anything with just her name or initial on it. A full review of Paris Hilton Can Can is now available here. (Sources: copines.ca, people.com) Thanks to Ambroxan for part of the info!
 As previously reported, the upcoming Dior launch Midnight Poison slated to be out on September 3rd 2007 is susceptible to generate some extra excitement thanks to the enlisting of actress Eva Green as its muse. Looking at the preview for the advertisement however one wonders if optimal use of the actress' image was made. She looks curiously Gothic and even Draculaesque.....yet the copy makes reference to a modern-day Cinderella.....with soot around her eyes rather than in the fireplace?
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ElizabethW is an artisan perfumery based in San Francisco which was founded in 1995 by Albert Nichols, a former architect, and Michael Lindsay, an ex-management consultant and journalist. The name of the house pays homage to the great grandmother of Albert Nichols, Elizabeth Wightman, whose spirit of independence and determination which led her to found a ranch in the Sierra Nevada in the 1800s, continues to inspire her great grandson, just like the olfactory memories derived from that childhood home do........
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As a follow-up to our previous announcement, we now have more details about Parfum d'Empire's upcoming new fragrances set out to launch in September of 2007, which are called Osmanthus Interdite (Forbidden Osmanthus), Fougère Bengale (Bengal Fern), and Equistrius. The house catalogue will now comprise eight perfumes total. In keeping with the program of the house, each perfume is inspired by a particular historical empire......
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Writing this review at dawn makes one realize that Profumum Alba (Dawn) - one of the latest releases by the Italian house - attempts to capture the coolness of dawn, the first chilly beginnings of the day as well as the initial pristine transparency of a time that has not yet taken shape and form and which remains open to meaning. As the scent progressively warms up so does the day. The elapsing of time is one of the most fascinating elements that can be integrated into a fragrance. It plays with our metaphysical fiber, renders us more contemplative, and makes both life and perfume more precious because the transient character of things was felt more vividly, concretely, as if compressed more clearly within the more intelligible unit of the perfume.....
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 Liberté by Cacharel (please read our review) is now exceptionally available at Imagination Perfumery as it will be released officially only in the fall of 2007 in the US. It retails from $39.99 to $75.99. This is a good option for an everyday laidback yet feminine light chypre. They also have C'est La Fête by Christian Lacroix, from $33.99 to $62.99, which is not available in principle before the fall in the US and First Summer 2007 Limited Edition by Van Cleef & Arpels for $42.99.
We reported earlier about the upcoming Palazzo by Fendi, which was recently unveiled in Rome, last Monday. Here is a peek at the gorgeous modern patrician-looking flacon, which reproduces in part the façade of the Palazzo Boncompagni Ludovisi in Rome......
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François Joyaux, who used to be best known as a specialist of political sciences and Asia (cf. La Nouvelle Question d'Extrême-Orient), has become a renowned rose expert and author. He has already written several books on the topic including his latest one bearing the title Les Roses de l'Impératrice: la rosomanie au temps de Joséphine (The Roses of the Empress: rose mania in the times of Joséphine), in which he studies the rose craze in the society of the First Empire which reflected itself in all aspects of culture and society from architectural ornamentation to rose collecting. Joséphine de Beauharnais in particular is famous for having developed a unique collection of roses in the greenhouses at Malmaison, which were drawn very precisely by artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) and published in a book of prints called Les Roses (1817-1824)....... Rosa Gallica Charles de Mills
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Un Crime Exotique (An Exotic Crime) is the latest offering by the house of Parfumerie Générale and is part of their Private Collection. It is said to come from a super secret stash of perfumes; it is not advertised on their site and is currently exclusively carried by Luckyscent.
The noir-novel name here appears to make little obvious reference to the perfume, which holds no apparent sense of foreboding, mystery, or threat. The only crime one can detect is that of greed, more of a sin than a crime. Un Crime Exotique is a deliciously decadent spicy gourmand and dessert-y perfume with a subtle hint of indolic florals in its core, which seems mainly to contribute to the creation of a lush triple-crème perfume accord oozing with gourmandise and good memories. Would those subtle tuberose and osmanthus hints in its core be the exotic crime accord? In this case, it is a humorous reference to a, by definition, well hidden crime covered by the brouhaha of joyous relaxed conversations around a festive meal by the candlelight. The perfume evokes memories of rambunctious family and friend dinners at Thanksgiving and Christmas complete with special desserts, good alcohols, tea, pot-pourris, and even ginger and pumpkin-scented candles......
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Shiseido is preparing to launch a new perfume called Zen destined for export, mainly in Europe, the biggest fragrance market in the world. It is their third fragrance baptized "Zen" after the ones launched in 1964 (black and gold bottle) and 2000 (white bottle). This one will offer a cubic golden faceted aspect inspired by a Japanese gold tea room and was designed by Taisuke Kikuchi. The jus itself described as a fresh woody floral was created by perfumer Michel Almairac of Robertet. The ad was shot by Jean-Paul Goude.
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The Tom Ford brand continues to be on a fast track expansion with no less than four upcoming releases: Tom Ford for Men, Tom Ford for Men Extreme, Black Orchid Voile de Fleur, and an as of yet unnamed women's perfume to be launched in the spring of 2008. As previously reported, Tom Ford is interested in establishing brand recognition in the sphere of fragrances as quickly as humanly possible and is doing everything in order to be perceived as a leading perfume house with a substantial catalogue of creations to boot, which means 16 in just one year.....
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