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August 2007 Archive
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 The September issue of Elle will feature an article by Megan Deem (p. 452) inviting us to follow the creations of four perfumes through the reconstructions of their story boards based on their designers' tales of inspiration. They are Christian Lacroix Rouge, DKNY Delicious Night, Diesel Fuel For Life Women, and Gwen Stefani L......
Continue reading "September Elle Sneak Peek: Diesel Fuel For Life Women & More {New Fragrances}" »
After several legendary beauties were hired by Chanel to front their perfume advertisements over the course of years such as Catherine Deneuve, Carole Bouquet, and more recently Kate Moss, Keira Knightley is the new face for Mademoiselle Coco. According to Jacques Helleu artistic director of Chanel, what prompted him more than anything else to elect Knightley were her flaws, which presented him with an opportunity to play fairy god-mother to Cinderella. The new advert where Keira Knightly poses naked, chastely clasping a bowler hat over her breasts closely references the theme of one of the adverts that was shot with Kate Moss, Keira's immediate predecessor. We could start calling them the girl-with-the-necklace-and-hat series...
Continue reading "Keira Knightley for Chanel Mademoiselle Coco, Nicole Miller Fragrances, British Men are Spiffing Up {Scented Images} {The 5th Sense in the News}" »
Kathy B. is the owner of Colonial Drug, a perfume store established in 1947 in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an institution both at the very local level and at the regional one. The shop easily evokes a jewelry box that would have been filled to the brim with fragrance bottles and grooming items (for pets as well) instead of gems and pearls. This image is quite literal as a matter of fact as the very top shelves of the store, the ones which seem to be an arm-length away the ceiling, are covered with giant factices of some of the most famous perfumes in the world and other shelves are touching the ceiling (see link for picture of the towering shelves). Colonial Drug is like an overfilled cornucopia of hard-to-find fragrances and as Kathy indicated when I asked her over the telephone (they do not do emails) what had been the summer of 2007 bestsellers so far, there was no clear bestseller because their customers order or come in to look for special and unique fragrances. There were rather several bestsellers that met with the favor of the public........
Continue reading "{Perfume Q & A} with Kathy of Colonial Drug - Tastes of Summer: 2007 Bestseller Summery Fragrances" »
As previously announced, from the venerable, upscale, and well-loved Italian brand Acqua Di Parma created in 1916, comes next month a new perfume called Colonia Intensa, which will represent their first historic foray into the explicit masculine categorization of a scent. This launch comes within a market context where masculine customers are perceived as a new driving force in perfume sales encouraging a neo-virile trend in the design of fragrances, which are being trimmed of their ambiguous, unisex references......
Continue reading "More on Colonia Intensa by Acqua Di Parma {New Fragrance} The Neo-Virile Trend {Trend Alert}" »
 Demeter, which is a reference in terms of realistic scents aiming to recapture the familiar or not so familiar smells that are part of our world, each composition being like an olfactory snapshot of reality, has come up with a new fragrance for its Fragrance Library called Crayon. After Play-Doh and the Jelly Bean series, this is another fun and nostalgic, for some, perfume dedicated to the world of childhood, Demeter’s Crayon smells just like that new box of Crayolas® you opened on your first day of school........
Continue reading "Crayon by Demeter {New Fragrance}" »
Frederic Malle has come up with a new fragrance, his 17th creation to date, explicitly destined for the younger crowd this time. It is called Outrageous! and will be officially released in October of 2007. The perfume was composed by Sophia Grojsman of IFF. It is described as a "citrusy, oceanic, unisex" scent and is meant to evoke an "....androgynous, super sexy scent, something like a good pair of jeans.".....
Continue reading "Outrageous! by Frederic Malle {New Perfume}" »
Le Prince Jardinier, a brand whose motto is "Excellence around the garden", is known for its dedication to the art of gardening and interest in perfumes. The label was named after a nickname given to its founder, Prince Louis-Albert de Broglie, also known as the Prince-Gardener......
Continue reading "Tomate Aristocrate, Glycine de Chine, & Scottish Memories by Le Prince Jardinier {Fragrant Shopping} {Scented Candles}" »
The New York Times has an article about Le Labo in Nolita. Where do you go shopping when you want to upgrade your signature scent as you reach the ripe old age of 40?.....
Continue reading "Article on Le Labo {The 5th Sense in the News}" »
When fashion designers Badgley and Mischka were on a trip in India, one of the sights and smells that left a memorable impression on them was a moon garden, that is a magical place where only night-blooming flowers are planted and pollinated by night butterflies. They decided to transcribe that experience into a fragrance, a limited edition due out in October of 2007, which is called Fleurs de Nuit (Flowers of the Night). The scent was composed by Rodrigo Flores-Roux of Givaudan........
Continue reading "Fleurs de Nuit by Badgley & Mischka {New Perfume}" »
From the enchanter of home textiles, Manuel Canovas, comes a new line of personal fragrances in a collection called Les Fantaisies Parfumées (Fragrant Fantasies), inspired both by his textile creations and his travels throughout the world. The range includes five perfumes named L'Île Bleue (Blue Island), Route Mandarine (Mandarin Road), Pink Riviera, Ballade Verte (Green Stroll), Anse Turquoise (Turquoise Cove)........
Continue reading "Manuel Canovas Les Fantaisies Parfumées: L'Île Bleue, Route Mandarine, Pink Riviera, Ballade Verte, & Anse Turquoise {New Perfumes}" »
L'Occitane en Provence is offering a new collection of perfumes based on scents of the Mediterranean flora called Notre Flore (Our Flora). They evoke an ideal landscape of kindred Mediterranean cultures and natural environment replete with affinities. They also seemingly pay homage to writer Jean Giono, once studied by L'Occitane's founder Olivier Baussan, as the caps on the flacons are poetically reminiscent of compasses because - and we seem to hear Giono tell it himself - "in Provence, the winds carry the tales". Manosque where the L'Occitane factory is located is also the birthplace of Giono and intimately linked with his work and life. The collection comprises four fragrances: Myrte (Myrtle), Néroli, Cèdre (Cedar), and Iris.......
Continue reading "L'Occitane Notre Flore: Myrte, Néroli, Cèdre, & Iris {New Fragrances}" »
Wild Honeysuckle by Dawn Spencer Hurwitz is a new perfume from her Essense Oils Collection. We had the opportunity to recently discover her creations and we can only report that all the perfumes we tried are very good quality, which is an invitation to explore her many varied compositions that show her love of the natural olfactory facets of the world and search for unusual accords. We have been offered a preview of Tamarind & Paprika, one of her upcoming holidays scents, and will report later on it.
For this week, we picked Wild Honeysuckle as the Sexy Scent of the Week as it evokes a date on a sultry summer evening very well, while conveying a sense of leisure and holidays thanks to its relaxed, optimistic feel.......
Continue reading "Wild Honeysuckle by Dawn Spencer Hurwitz {Perfume Short (Review)} {Sexy Scent of the Week}" »
Franco Wright is the co-founder of Luckyscent, a perfumery located in Los Angeles, which is reputed for its edgy niche offerings and constant seeking-out of rare confidential fragrance brands originating from different corners of the globe. They have both an online presence at Luckyscent.com and a store called Scent Bar where you can go, chat with the scent barkeepers, and sniff the latest trends...........
Continue reading "{Perfume Q & A} with Franco Wright of Luckyscent - Tastes of Summer: 2007 Bestseller Summery Fragrances" »
Jo Malone will launch a new cologne in their library of scents in October of 2007. It is called White Jasmine & Mint and is described as offering an elegant yet eccentric style, meant to evoke "...a sun-drenched morning in an English country garden." This promises to be a welcome contrast in the midst of the fall season......
Continue reading "White Jasmine & Mint by Jo Malone {New Fragrance}" »
August 2007 Archive
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