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August 2007 Archive
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 The New York Post has an article on possible misdemeanors on the part of perfume reviewers and Chandler Burr in particular.
We must be missing something because it seems to us that it is a little low to try to corrupt a perfume reviewer with a perfume bottle, or even a few. Some people apparently think that a fragrance flacon is the equivalent of a gold bar. It does have the same color, sometimes.
It does appear though that some members of the industry were characteristically pushy with Burr, offering him money.
It would be interesting to dig out similar stories, which must exist, with movie, restaurant, wine, food, beauty product, spa critics and see why perfumes seem to attract more attention...... Read more......
Continue reading "Cost of Corruption = 1 Perfume Bottle, Testing & Imagining Scents in Toronto & France {The 5th Sense in the News}" »
If Ambre de Cabochard borrows its name partly from its great leather chypre predecessor Cabochard launched in 1959, olfactorily speaking it is probably its opposite in many respects. Where Cabochard evoked a sparkling dry white wine with still drier peppery accents, Ambre de Cabochard evokes an old-fashioned candy store redolent with realistic effluvia of candied fruits, sweets, and faint whiffs of molasses. Where the classic fragrance unambiguously evoked maturity, adulthood, and sophisticated womanhood, the new one plays out to our childish inclinations and mainstream quest for comfort......
The words "Feminist Despair" arranged in the shape of a lollipop by Anyaka
Continue reading "Ambre de Cabochard by Grès (2007) {Perfume Short (Review)} {New Fragrance}" »
 British Model Katie Price also known as Jordan has unveiled her debut perfume called Stunning. "One spray and you're Stunning!" she promised.
"It's taken 14 months to create, as I wanted something floral and feminine but still strong. It smells beautiful and I think a lot of women will love it just like I do."
It is said to have hints of jasmine and mandarin....
Continue reading "Stunning by Jordan {New Fragrance} {Celebrity Perfume}" »
 Jean-Claude Bulins has been making the famous Diptyque candles for nearly 20 years. Journalist Catherine Saint-Jean invites us on a tour of the candle factory located in Argenteuil. Diptyque candles are usually produced in batches of 1250 units, except for some bestsellers like their new Maquis (2500) or some of their classics like Figuier and Baies (each produced in batches of 5000 copies). We learn that due to the high amount of natural oils used in the candles, each new scent needs to have a specific wax formula designed to accommodate the physical properties of the perfume mix and it does not always work, like for Musc. Read more in Madame Figaro.....
In September of 2007, Galeries Lafayette will inaugurate a new perfume and body care line of their own called Lafayette Beauté. It will include four perfumes available in eaux de toilette concentrations and each of the four scents will be declined in 15 different products like soaps, shower gels, body oils, etc.......
Continue reading "Secrets du Japon, Rituels de Tanzanie, Beautés de Polynésie, & Rêves de Laponie {New Fragrances} {Bath & Body}" »
When we last wrote about the upcoming Tom Ford fragrances and about Tom Ford For Men in particular, Tom Ford had decided to pose himself for the ads as the subject of the signature wet yet dressed look by photographer Marilyn Minter. Now the brand announces that they will advertise Tom Ford For Men with a series of porno-chic images of the more hard-core variety going back in this manner to some of Tom Ford's roots as a communicator of provocative advertising images........
Continue reading "New Osé Advertising for Tom Ford For Men {Scented Images}" »
Strip is the latest perfume creation by upscale whimsical lingerie brand Agent Provocateur founded in 1994 by Serena Rees and Joe Corres; the latter is the son of Vivienne Westwood another high priestess of sexiness. Agent Provocateur does not hesitate to advertise themselves as “The most erotic lingerie in the world” and it appears futile to try to argue with them after you have glimpsed at their catalog, which short of being X-rated is definitely under the auspices of Venus. They even succeeded in getting banned from the airwaves (see Kylie Minogue’s banned commercial for the brand). So when they decided to use the image of the stripper in this particular case one could anticipate that they would not only talk the talk but walk the walk.......
Continue reading "Strip by Agent Provocateur (2007) {Perfume Review & Musings} {New Perfume}" »
Some good news for local perfumistas and shoppers in general; Nordstrom is coming to northern New England, to Natick, MA. Mark your calendars, the Grand Opening will take place on September 7, 2007 at 10 am! We've heard good things about their sample programs and this will widen the available selection of fragrances......
Continue reading "Nordstrom Is Coming to Natick, MA, So Long Filene's Basement {Shopping Tips}" »
 Knize Ten by Knize (pronounced "Kniesche") comes preceded by an aura of legend within certain circles as being one of the best leather colognes in the world, whose reputation has endured to this day and very rightly so. In some ways, it is the leather equivalent of Borsari Violetta Di Parma where violet perfumes are concerned both being confidentially, yet deeply appreciated by connoisseurs. Even more so than that, it is judged by some as simply one of the very best men's perfumes; it was in fact voted best masculine fragrance by The Best of The Best in 1989 and in 1999 it was listed (somewhere) amongst the 100 best fragrances to date. Knize Ten has enough character, complexity, yet also relaxed and comforting feel about it to become a signature perfume. That one fragrance that could not but be Knize Ten if you had to choose just one "eau de toilette" to bring with you to a desert island as writer Hans Habe once wrote, because then what would have mattered would not have been to love a beautiful woman but to strengthen one's spirit.......
 Adolf Loos in the Knize store in Paris in 1927
Continue reading "The Knize Ten or 10 by Knize (1924) {Perfume Review & Musings Part I} {Men's Cologne} {Fragrances of Paris}" »
Lalique is issuing a limited edition of Lalique Le Parfum in a red crystal flacon decorated with a motif designed by Lalique in 1935 called "Masque de femme" (Woman's mask)......
Continue reading "Lalique Le Parfum Coffret V.I.P. by Lalique {Fragrance News} {Luxury Perfume}" »
Café Scribe, a site selling e-books is taking an innovative step to encourage people to buy its products. Starting in September of 2007, they will send their customers scented stickers with each purchase of an e-book. One will have to stick these onto one's computer to diffuse the fragrances. The selection comprises traditional scents associated with books, either that of musty old books or freshly printed ones.......
Continue reading "Fragrant e-Books For Sale by Café Scribe {Fragrant Shopping}" »
Maxim's de Paris is going to launch two collections of scented candles respectively called Sem and Belle Epoque. Sem will debut at Bergdorf Goodman in October 2007 and both lines will be more widely distributed after that. The first one is inspired by the art work of artist Georges Goursat also known as Sem, who used to draw caricatures of the restaurant's patrons and the second collection pays homage to the Belle Epoque heritage of Maxim's founded in 1893.......
Continue reading "Maxim's Sem & Belle Epoque Collections of Candles {New Perfumes} {Scented Candles}" »
After our previous excursus into some of the historic background of Knize Ten by Knize we now come to our impressions of the scent in part II of the review. Knize Ten may have have had you expectant that it would hold the door for you and show off its perfectly pressed creases on its gray pearl pants while giving off "just the proper hint of Gentleman's Knize Ten cologne" as Patricia Soliman writes in Coco, The Novel, yet it suddenly morphs into a rococo, baroque form, a whirling ball gown under which some mirror-like shiny leather patent shoes peak and it suddenly is less Knize Ten and more Bal à Versailles created much later in 1962. The kinship is uncanny. It is that same treatment of the mosses and animalic odor di femina. But it could not have happened in the order we presented it to you. So what did take place? Little by little as the perfume unfolds, another familiar dancer appears that reveals yet another layer of historicity peeling back. Knize Ten becomes more clearly suffused with the golden light and round fruity peachy and plummy accents of Mitsouko by Guerlain introduced in 1919. This is a moving moment because Knize Ten now smells more like the ancient Mitsouko than the current Mitsouko itself. It has preserved this old gilded opulence and sillage of old Europe and sense of ideal Parisian elegance that have receded from Mitsouko.......
Continue reading "The Knize Ten by Knize {Perfume Review & Musings/Part II} {Fragrances of Paris}" »
As previously reported (please see story board), Diesel is launching Fuel For Life For Her and Fuel For Life For Him. The global launch is scheduled for this coming Monday. The women's scent is described as a floral chypre and was composed by team of perfumers Annick Ménardo and Thierry Wasser. The men's scent is said to be a powdery fougère and was created by Annick Ménardo together with Jacques Cavallier......
Continue reading "Diesel Fuel For Life For Her & Him {New Fragrances} {Scented Image}" »
As American young men have become apparently addicted to body sprays, Disney offers perfume lines targeting younger and younger consumers, and more and more candy-like notes crop up even in fragrances targeting more mature women, we might all be feeling the impact of an exacerbated youth culture in perfumery. Frederic Malle, an upscale elitist perfume house has even recently decided to partly dress down its brand image, in a manner of speaking, by offering a niche perfume for the young evoking jeans and clean laundry called Outrageous!........
Continue reading "The Vogue of Teens Perfumes {The 5th Sense in the News} {Scented Image}" »
August 2007 Archive
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