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

September 2007 Archive

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September 1, 2007

How To Buy Patents Of Discontinued Fragrances {Ask Marie-Helene}

Hi,

I was surprised and happy to discover your website, being a lover of the fragrances I've loved/love. I've wondered about some of the fragrances that have been discontinued, and you may have info on your site about this, but I haven't had time yet to read everything! I'm just wondering about how easy/difficult, and how costly, it is , for one to buy recipe/patent for discontinued fragrances. Might be a better option for me to buy STOCK in companies that WILL produce some of the older good ones.

Thank you,

Melissa B. ......

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Smells Like Rain In The Spring In Belgium...... {Ask Marie-Helene}

Hi,

I came across your website a few days back and was really impressed. There is an ocean of happening things to read on your website!!! I am looking for a particular perfume for a friend back in Belgium. The trouble is he only gave me the description of the fragrance and he doesn't remember the name of the perfume either. Here is what he says....

Smells like rain during spring in Belgium
Contains clay
Pretty expensive

Is there someone who can help me ??? I'm now in India and am leaving for Belgium in a week. Would be fantastic if I could get it for him.

Cheers,

Joseph H.

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Interview of Lyn Harris of Miller Harris on Beauty Interviews {Fragrant Reading}

Beauty Interviews has a piece with Lyn Harris, the founder and perfumer of Miller Harris.

How do you source the ingredients for Miller Harris perfumes?
I only use the finest quality raw ingredients. I take pride in carefully selecting my materials from different regions and with my chemicals, again, I have my favourites, which I obtain through certain suppliers whom I favour. As I defined and refined my style, I have found that I am far more selective of the chemicals I work with. I have now got to a stage in my creativity where I am happy to limit myself to around 300 out of thousands and thousands available in perfumery. This is important in defining my style as a perfumer. I am confident about limiting my vocabulary in terms of these materials. However, the opposite is true of natural ingredients. I try and discover new naturals – I don’t like to be limited in that respect.

September 4, 2007

Spiritueuse Double Vanille by Guerlain {New Perfume}

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After having recently proposed Iris Ganache, a white-chocolate-and-iris based gourmand fragrance, Guerlain is further proposing to enchant our noses and palates with Spiritueuse Double Vanille (Liquorish-y Double Vanilla) which continues their exploration of the sophisticated gourmet and gourmand theme in perfumery, pushing it a step further with this time, an association with macaroon specialist Pierre Hermé......

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Scent 1, 2 & 3 by Headonism - Organic Hair Care Shampoo {Fragrance News} {Hair} {Fragrant Reading}

There is a very interesting interview of Alan Stuart, co-founder of Headonism, a line of organic scented hair care on newconsumer.com, "The UK's hottest ethical lifestyle magazine." The fragrances are so good a French perfumer could not believe his nose when he caught the aroma of Scent 2 and was told it was coming from a shampoo and not from a fragrance.....

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Air of Style & The Stylistics by Mac {New Perfume} {Beauty Notes}

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One can catch a whiff of the holidays already just a day after Labor Day weekend as brands are gearing up to offer new perfumes for the holiday season. Mac, which is more of a household name where makeup is concerned nevertheless offers a collection of fragrances, to which it is going to add a limited edition called Air of Style together with a makeup line called The Stylistics.....

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Vétiver Pour Elle by Guerlain {Fragrance News}

Initially launched in 2004 as a limited edition, Vétiver Pour Elle will be included this fall in the Guerlain collection called Les Parisiennes.

How could it be otherwise? Jean-Paul Guerlain's female friends after having adopted his original Vétiver, which he composed in 1959 when he was just 18, were begging him to offer a feminine twist on the classic fragrance. Even if adopted by generations of women who had not waited for anyone's permission to make Vétiver theirs, curiosity being part of human nature and dissatisfaction the motor of progress or history at least, a Vétiver For Her was felt to be long overdue.....

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Derek Jeter Driven Black by Avon {New Perfume} {Celebrity Fragrance}

After the overwhelming success of his debut Avon fragrance, Driven, which is the #1 men's scent sold by Avon, Derek Jeter will expand his fragrance and beauty portfolio to include a new men's perfume in December of 2007 that is meant to be more of the evening, revealing his more mysterious and sensual sides. The new cologne is called Driven Black and is described as a woody oriental......

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September 5, 2007

Coty Prestige is Going For The Shimmer This Fall: JLo Glow Shimmer, JLo Glow After Dark Shimmer & Euphoria Crystalline Limited Editions {Fragrance News}

What better way to catch one's attention anew but to sparkle hoping to dazzle? The message from Coty Prestige this fall will be the one that is summed up by JLo on the packagings of the anniversary editions of her scents called JLo Glow Shimmer and Glow After Dark Shimmer: “Never Stop Glowing. Love, Jennifer”.

A limited edition of Euphoria called Euphoria Crystalline adorned with etched flowers and crystals issued by Coty Prestige as well will also be available.....

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Dior Midnight Poison by Wong Kar-Wai with Eva Green {Scented Images} {Celebrity Perfume}

To promote the launch of Midnight Poison, Dior has set up a luxurious-looking website complete with behind-the-scenes film footages and down-loadable skins. You can watch the advertising film shot by Wong Kar-Wai and featuring actress Eva Green.......

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Noir Laqué, Blanc Parfait, Doré Doux, Jaune Eclair, Rouge Velours & Vert Croquant by Kenzo {New Perfumes}

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Kenzo is launching a collection of six perfume extracts, which was dedicated to the interpretation of six different colors. The fragrances were developed by perfumers Nathalie Lorson, Annick Ménardo, Jean-Pierre Béthouart and Alberto Morillas. Each color is associated with a dominant sensation....

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Eau Sauvage & Eau Sauvage Fraîcheur Cuir by Christian Dior {Perfume Short (Reviews)} {New Perfume} {Men's Cologne}

In 1966, Christian Dior introduced a new men's fragrance that had failed consumers' tests, deciding to follow their instincts instead. Eau Sauvage (Wild Water), composed by Edmond Roudnitska, can be seen retrospectively as deserving of its name due to this initial movement of irreverence and freedom from marketing rules of caution. It owes it more particularly and evidently to its fresh aromatic notes; the perfume evokes nature and an air as bracing as if you were inhaling these notes standing by a torrent.

The eau de toilette became a classic, adopted by both men and women, reaching across gender thanks to its fresh eau departure and its floral heart, enriched by a new jasmine-scented raw material called Hedione. The floral accents were felt to be a little provocative from the mainstream masculine standpoint at the time.

Another element which might have contributed to its popularity among women we think is that despite its dynamic sport-scent-like opening suggesting the movement of a slap of aftershave on the face (rather than its smell proper), the scent retained a reference to a classic chypre, notably perceptible with the assertive oakmoss peaking through from the base and offering its contrast with the luminous top notes......

Christian Dior - Eau Sauvage corresponds better to this picture than the new one would, due to its more retro feel.

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September 6, 2007

Intimately Beckham Night Women & Intimately Beckham Night Men {New Perfumes}

David and Victoria Beckham are launching a new nocturnal husband-and-wife duo of fragrances this month called Intimately Beckham Night Men and Intimately Beckham Night Women. This launch expands their fragrance portfolio which already includes Beckham Instinct - the original success that was the motor behind the other fragrance developments - and their first him-and-her scents, Intimately Beckham For Him and For Her.......

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Scent Marketing is on the Upsurge {The 5th Sense in the News}

This Sunday over brunch, get of whiff of this, i.e., look for a slice of gourmand advertising in the Los Angeles Times that will bear the scent of frosted cake. This ad is to encourage interest in the new movie "Mr Margorium's Wonder Emporium" with Natalie Portman and Dustin Hoffman. And the LAT people are not the only ones to think forward. More experiments are conducted in the printed media nowadays to capture advertisers' and readers' interests, sometimes with a backlash effect as in the case of the cookie-scented bus shelters in San Francisco,......

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Cosmetics & Perfumes in the Roman World by Susan Stewart {Fragrant Reading}

We owe the Romans the very word of "perfume". To learn more about the classical roots of our perfume heritage we can now read a work by specialist of classical antiquity Susan Stewart who released a book entitled Cosmetics and Perfumes in The Roman World, Tempus, 2007 in February in the UK, and which will soon be available in the US, in principle sometime in September.

It is now available for pre-order on Amazon for $23.10.

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September 1, 2007

How To Buy Patents Of Discontinued Fragrances {Ask Marie-Helene}

Smells Like Rain In The Spring In Belgium...... {Ask Marie-Helene}

Interview of Lyn Harris of Miller Harris on Beauty Interviews {Fragrant Reading}

September 4, 2007

Spiritueuse Double Vanille by Guerlain {New Perfume}

Scent 1, 2 & 3 by Headonism - Organic Hair Care Shampoo {Fragrance News} {Hair} {Fragrant Reading}

Air of Style & The Stylistics by Mac {New Perfume} {Beauty Notes}

Vétiver Pour Elle by Guerlain {Fragrance News}

Derek Jeter Driven Black by Avon {New Perfume} {Celebrity Fragrance}

September 5, 2007

Coty Prestige is Going For The Shimmer This Fall: JLo Glow Shimmer, JLo Glow After Dark Shimmer & Euphoria Crystalline Limited Editions {Fragrance News}

Dior Midnight Poison by Wong Kar-Wai with Eva Green {Scented Images} {Celebrity Perfume}

Noir Laqué, Blanc Parfait, Doré Doux, Jaune Eclair, Rouge Velours & Vert Croquant by Kenzo {New Perfumes}

Eau Sauvage & Eau Sauvage Fraîcheur Cuir by Christian Dior {Perfume Short (Reviews)} {New Perfume} {Men's Cologne}

September 6, 2007

Intimately Beckham Night Women & Intimately Beckham Night Men {New Perfumes}

Scent Marketing is on the Upsurge {The 5th Sense in the News}

Cosmetics & Perfumes in the Roman World by Susan Stewart {Fragrant Reading}

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