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October 2007 Archive
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 L'Artisan Parfumeur is offering a new generation of home fragrance diffuser called Chez Moi (At Home), which sounds like the olfactory equivalent of the Bose Acoustic Wave music system,
"Chez Moi® invents another, completely new conception of home fragrance which imitates the way nature entices our sense of smell with its scents. The new technique, a piezoelectric heat-free system, fragments the perfume molecules into microdroplets, and propels them in soft, sensual waves into the atmosphere of the room." .......
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 L'Occitane has released a new home fragrance called Parfum Pour La Maison Lavande or Lavender Home Perfume. Lavender is one of the best fragrances to use at home; it is soothing, refreshing, and as a bonus powerfully evokes the sounds and colors of the Provence region like few other scents can. Regarding the notes, "This fragrance combines the aromatic freshness of lavender essential oil, the sweetness of vanilla and the intensity of cedar and vetyver." It retails for $23 and is available here.
Iris Noir (Black Iris) by Yves Rocher is the latest and third installment in the brand's more upscale collection of perfumes called Secrets d'Essences (Secrets of Essences). This new perfume is already out in France but US-based customers will have to wait until the beginning of 2008 to be able to purchase it.
Iris Noir comes after Voile d'Ambre and Rose Absolue. Each fragrance is dedicated to the showcasing of one key exceptionally sourced ingredient be it amber, rose, or iris. The stress for the collection is put on both this use of rarer ingredients and the partnership with "talented perfumers" although it must be noted that Yves Rocher has always had a policy of recruiting excellent and even great perfumers, such as Sophia Grojsman, Annick Ménardo, and Francis Kurkdjian, even for their more mundanely presented fragrance creations. According to Osmoz, 86% of natural ingredients were included in the composition.......
Continue reading "Iris Noir by Yves Rocher: The Reassuring Smell of The Middle Class {Perfume Short (Review)} {Scented Thoughts} {New Fragrance} " »
Andy Tauer is sending around a bottle of perfume, the Journey Bottle, inspired by the image of a mechanic carrying hyacinths. The Mechanic arrived in Massachusetts and in the latest news toured the grounds of America's oldest university.......
Continue reading "Andy Tauer Journey Bottle: The Mechanic Visits Harvard University {Scented Image} {Fragrance News}" »
As of today you can procure the four new perfumes in the L'Occitane brand new collection called Les 4 Vents (The Four Winds), which includes: Myrtle, Iris, Neroli, and Cedar. We reported earlier on about them more in detail when the collection was called Notre Flore.The caps on the bottle are decorated with a compass in keeping with the travel theme. Best practical news is that all four are available in 0.33 fl. oz. travel sizes for $10 each.
(Sources: L'Occitane press release, L'Occitane website. Our thanks to Mystic Bean for the heads up!)
Parallel to the activities of innovation and sense of sheer child-like liberty of creation in perfumery that are perhaps best exemplified by Etat Libre d'Orange who seem to be delighted to be sticking their tongues at starchy perfume wearers and complementary to it, we see a more curatorial-minded movement that aims to resurrect antique and vintage French perfume brands, some of which are all but forgotten. It would be interesting to see how this current (for the French-owned brands) parallels another cultural movement in French-movie making, that of the so-called heritage movies. The preservation of national patrimony has become a core Republican value of the French. Is its seeming equivalent in perfumery similarly minded or animated by a different spirit? More generally and beyond the French frame of reference (for Piguet for example) it certainly signifies an aesthetic choice......
Continue reading "Resurrecting Vintage Perfume Brands: Robert Piguet, Lubin, Jovoy, & Now Gabilla! {Fragrance News} {Scented Thoughts} {Trend Alert}" »
 Need a little relaxation? Here is a *spoof* article about the latest perfume by Britney Spears and the difficulties experienced by the marketing team when attempting to match the image of the perfume with that of the celebrity it is inspired by, "Lars Mitchell, Director of Product Management for Elizabeth Arden, remarked on the difficulty on finding an appropriate name for the perfume. (Perfume bottle is made from recycled prison bars)........
Continue reading "Britney Spears Inspires a Spoof Perfume {Fragrant Reading} {Celebrity Fragrance}" »
 Sophie Labbé is a senior perfumer at IFF, which she joined in 1992. Studied at: She studied at ISIPCA (graduated the first of her class) and then at the internal school of Givaudan. She was the recipient in 2005 of the prestigious François Coty prize and was the first woman to receive this distinction. It was also a first for IFF.
Creations include: Romeo Gigli G de Gigli (1994), Jardin de Soleil d'Escada, Organza de Givenchy (1996), Emporio Armani pour Homme, Boss Woman d’Hugo Boss, Premier jour de Nina Ricci (2005), Cacharel Promesse (With Carlos Benaïm of IFF) (2005).......
Continue reading "Perfumer Sophie Labbé {Directory of Perfumers, Artistic Directors, & Fragrance Designers} {Scented Quote of the Day}" »
We have some great pictures to show you today, thanks to Coty who just released the much anticipated new advertisement for Stetson Original fronted by Tom Brady. Interestingly, the photographer captured a somewhat melancholy (yet seductive) air on Tom Brady's features, which might be a smart move and be interpreted as a diplomatic gesture extended to that part of the potential audience for Stetson Original and followers of celebrity gossip news who resent his escapades. See our previous post here that elicited some strongly worded comments regarding Brady's private life. Another pic here taken from behind the scenes of the shoots at a farm in California.
Tom Brady seems to be saying in the new ad "I know what you think of me, I am not that proud about it myself........but hey, it's not going to keep me down for ever. Life may be confusing sometimes, but it's still good at the core." And here is the full spread......
Continue reading "New Stetson Original Ad with Tom Brady {Scented Image} {Celebrity Fragrance} {Fragrance News}" »
Hyacinths and A Mechanic is one of the latest creations by perfumer Andy Tauer. The evocative, slightly incongruous title of the fragrance refers to the initial vision of a rough mechanic, covered with just the ideal amount of grease, holding a bouquet of dainty hyacinths. The name wants to provoke a little gender clash between the terms used, between a feminine floral symbol and a masculine erotic one, homo-erotic we can assume in this case. Hyacinths & A Mechanic can be seen as Andy Tauer's daring answer to Jean-Paul Gaultier Fleur du Mâle. Flowers and man conspire together to create an unusual muscular floral bouquet with A Mechanic, who prefers to go for a slap of oil rather than a bath of milk.......
Continue reading "Hyacinths & A Mechanic by Andy Tauer {Perfume Short (Review)}" »
British milliner Stephen Jones has announced that he is working on the creation of a debut fragrance with Rei Kawabuko of Comme des Garçons. The launch is anticipated to take place in July of 2008 and Jones is already planning to make a hat inspired by the shape of the bottle.........
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Juicy Couture is reported to be currently working on a new fragrance for men called Dirty English. It is scheduled to debut in March of 2008 and will be accompanied by a compilation CD.......
Continue reading "Dirty English by Juicy Couture (2008) & More {New Perfumes}" »
The question is, will Madonna gain enough creative control over this perfume development project if it ever takes place? Madonna is said to have inked a $120 million deal with Live Nation for them to license her name. The deal might possibly include the creation of a fragrance. It is reported that Madonna has been interested in the idea for a decade but has been shopping around more thoroughly this year........
Continue reading "Madonna Fragrance on the Horizon {Fragrance News}" »
 We recently happened on the site of a young Hungarian perfumer named Zsolt Zolyomi. We asked him if he could tell us a bit more about himself and his brand, Parfums Zsolt Zolyomi. We were interested in knowing what perfumes he had created as we saw that he had been involved in several projects that typically included social events.
It turns out that he is currently hard at work setting up a perfume store in Budapest and being very conscious that this is an area of cultural appreciation that remains to be developed in Hungary, he is directing his efforts in this direction at the moment. His avowed goal is to reconnect with the roots of modern Western perfumery in Hungary, which famously took place in the 14th century with the creation of the Eau de la Reine de Hongrie, a rosemary-based perfume and lotion reputed to have rejuvenated Elizabeth of Kujavia (1305-1380). Apart from that, his style, what we like to think of as a poetico-realistic style nurtured by nostalgia and memories of happiness but not exclusively, perhaps a little bit à la Christopher Brosius in the US, seems to be a strong one at the moment in his work. We are certainly looking forward to smelling a Hungarian summer in the countryside ......
Continue reading "A Hungarian Perfumer: Zsolt Zolyomi of Parfums Zsolt Zolyomi {Perfume Q & A} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}" »
Givenchy recently launched a new collection of fragrances called Les Parfums Mythiques (Mythical Fragrances), which includes a library of ten perfumes that were recalled from the prestigious past of the house. They are for the men's fragrances, Vetyver (the first Givenchy masculine scent), Monsieur de Givenchy, Xeryus, Insensé; women's scents are: L'Interdit, Le De, Givenchy III, Eau de Givenchy, Extravagance d'Amarige, and Organza Indécence. Certain perfumes had become true rarities. Vetyver is one of them; it comes enshrouded with the aura of legend as one of the best vetiver fragrances ever made.
Continue reading "Vetyver by Givenchy: Les Parfums Mythiques (2007) {Perfume Short (Review)} {New Perfume} {Men's Cologne}" »
October 2007 Archive
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