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October 26, 2007

Ladurée Partners with Sephora for the Holidays {Fragrance News} {Bath & Body}

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The eminent macaroon specialist Ladurée has partnered with Sephora to release a limited edition of makeup and body products scented with the gourmand aromas of Chantilly, violet, or brioche normally floating in his boutiques, just in time for the holidays season. In parallel to this partnership, Ladurée will launch his own line of beauty products........

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New Revamped Website for Parfums de Nicolaï {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses} {New Perfumes}

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Parfums de Nicolaï have revamped their website, which now offers more content, illustrations, and a more sophisticated design. It is a commercial website in both French and English and you can order directly from them. They have several upcoming new perfumes and scented home products, including a new line called Les Magnifiques (The Magnificent Ones).

Rolling Out the Scented Red Carpet: Upcoming Celebrity Fragrances in 2008 {Fragrance News} {New Perfumes}

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If you thought the trend of celebrity fragrances would naturally wane, sputter, and die a slow and forecast death, well we have all heard about impermanence of course, but right now the trend is alive and well. And this is not going to change in 2008 as far as we can tell from the number of future releases and projects that are being announced. In this manner we learn that Claudia Schiffer is planning to release her own fragrance........

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October 27, 2007

Gucci by Gucci (2007) {Perfume Short (Review)} {New Fragrance}

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The Reception by Frederick John Lewis, 1873 
 

Both modern chypres and rose perfumes are very au courant this season and the new Gucci Eau de Parfum harnesses these two trends in a subtle and elegant manner.

Frida Giannini, the new artistic director at Gucci wanted to create a fragrance meant for a strong and feminine woman. The idea of feminine strength is revealed here by perfumer Ilia Ermenidis in a very restrained fashion creating an impression comparable to the effect that gliding water can have on the hardest of rocks overtime. Like that fluid force, Gucci Eau de Parfum is easy to wear and one wants to drink from it as easily as from a glass of water........
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October 29, 2007

Lalique pour Homme - 2008 Buddha Limited Edition {Fragrance News} {Luxury Perfume}

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Since 1997 Lalique has issued a series of limited edition luxury crystal bottles to house Lalique Pour Homme created that very year. The 2008 edition sees a spiritual Orientalist theme illustrated with the figure of the Buddha in meditation........

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Scented Quote of the Day, from Serge Lutens: - {Fragrant Reading}

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Photo: Ling Fei/Salons du Palais Royal

"A quoi sert le parfum ?

Nous sommes tous fragiles. Le parfum est une arme contre notre fragilité, notre timidité.
Il sert à s'exprimer, à se donner l'image la plus cohérente qu'on aimerait que les autres aient de soi. Séduire, c'est être soi-même et rencontrer les autres.
Sinon, cela peut être utile pour un comportement social. On porte un sac à initiales et un parfum qu'on reconnaît partout. Ainsi, on ne risque pas d'être aimé pour soi-même."

Translation & interview after the jump.......... 

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A Tale of 3 Christina Aguilera Fragrances - Perfume Launch Mores {Celebrity Fragrances}

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A recap first. When all the press was abuzz with the news of Aguilera's "first fragrance" to come out this fall, The Scented Salamander was able to spot a previous Christina Aguilera fragrance issued ca. 2004 called XPose. Then there was speculation as to whether that perfume had really existed at all since its existence had not been reported. A reader however commented recently that she knew that fragrance.

Thanks to You Tube too, you can discover the commercial for Xpose featuring Aguilera musing in front of her closet (a common theme in women's perfume commercials including in the one for the most recent Christina Aguilera fragrance) then spider-like catching a man or more than one in the net of her perfume. Please see in passing also a reference to Marilyn Monroe dabbing perfume,

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Halloween - Perfumes from the Crypt....... {Perfume List}

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 The Oriel Window, Lacock Abbey by William Henry Fox Talbot, 1835 or 1839 

Halloween is upon us and with it the possible question of what perfume to wear to partake of the festivities or honor the dead. Halloween is not really celebrated in France. There was an attempt in the 1990s to implant the tradition there but it eventually failed although by 2000 it seemed to have picked up a bit. By 2006 however Le Monde and Le Parisien both declared Halloween to be dead.

One can still remember an encouraging picture in a daily showing a spectacular row of pumpkins at the esplanade du Trocadéro with the Eiffel Tower in the background. It seemed to be opening a Roman Appian way or inroad into French culture. But somehow the symbolism of the pumpkin never took hold nor the horror movie cultural references past a few fashionable force-fed years. One can see it as a fashion, like the Christmas trees garbed in artificial snow and dyed in red or blue a couple of years ago in Paris and it soon died as a new tradition. Perhaps what the French were lacking was a vibrant Irish community to keep the fire of Samain burning. Cultural resistance to a wholesale import of a cultural practice now perceived as very American is faulted too.

Halloween in the US on the contrary is a monster event for the majority. The olfactory images it conveys are rich or at least potentially rich.

But before we leave the shores of France, a country where a tradition of Halloween perfumes could have developed, we can evoke an immediate All Saints' Day association with the scents of Chrysantemum and Immortelle flowers that are laid out on tombs on the day of La Toussaint . We know one perfume that can suggest this tradition and it would work well in the US too with its dark maple syrupy tones, Sables by Annick Goutal........

 

 Halloween party invitation on an old ice truck by Walker Evans, 1973-1974.

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Davidoff Adventure TV Spot with Ewan McGregor {Scented Images}

You can check a previous post about the Davidoff Adventure cologne and ad print here. This is the TV commercial directed by Seb Edwards and shot in Brazil. McGregor said at a press conference about his love of adventure and motorbiking that, "There's something that appeals to the little boy in us to go out and not wash for weeks," [...]"You have no responsibilities except to have petrol in the tank and a vague idea of where you're going."(quote via Women's Wear Daily)

October 30, 2007

Maître Parfumeur & Gantier Puts Back on Kid Gloves {Fragrance News} {Fashion Notes} {Luxury Perfume}

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Scented Gloves from 150 € or US $ 216

Maître Parfumeur et Gantier founded by Jean Laporte in 1988 and now headed by Jean-Paul Millet Lage is reintroducing the ancient practice of scenting gloves that gave its name to the corporation of master glovers and perfumers in France starting in 1190 under Philippe-Auguste, and which finally saw its official status consolidated in 1656........

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Bijou de Parfum by Les Néréides {New Perfume} {Fashion Notes} {Luxury Perfume}

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Bijou de Parfum coffret, 288 € or US $ 414
 
Les Néréides has introduced a new violet essence, which is part of a scented jewelry concept called Bijou de Parfum. Taking inspiration from ancient portable pomanders, they have designed an ajouré locket that is like a cage holding a terracotta marble which one needs to scent with the violet perfume that comes with it......

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Elixir Patchouli (2007) by Réminiscence Paris {New Perfume}

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Elixir Patchouli 100 ml Eau de Parfum, 90 € or US $ 129

To celebrate the longevity and success of its first-born fragrance with a cult following, Patchouli, created in 1970, Réminiscence Paris is launching a new version of its best-seller called Elixir Patchouli in November of 2007.......

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Costume National Scents Signs Licensing Deal with Beauty San S.p.A. {Fragrance News}

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As previously reported, Costume National is preparing to launch a new fragrance called 21 to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the brand.......

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Les Moments, Homme Galland by Maria Galland {New Perfumes}

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The cosmetics brand Maria Galland founded by dancer Maria Galland some 45 years ago has issued a duo of fragrances for her and for him this fall called Les Moments and Homme Galland.

Les Moments includes notes of: bergamot, rose, peach, apricot, geranium, citrus fruits, quince jelly, rosewood, clove, cinnamon, vanilla, myrrh, sandalwood, and cedarwood. 

Homme Galland features notes of: lemon, rosemary, basilic, bergamot, clove, jasmine, iris, oakmoss, thyme absolute, and amber.

Les Moments Eau de Toilette, 100 ml ca. 69,00 Euro; Homme Galland Eau de Toilette, 100 ml ca. 59,00 Euro
(Source: Cosmoty.de

October 31, 2007

New Commercial Website for Indie Brand .Vero. Profumo. {Scented Paths & fragrant Addresses}

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 7,5 ml and 15 ml of pure perfume, 105 € or US $ 152 and 165 € or US $ 238
 
Vero Kern is the founder and perfumer of .Vero.Profumo. a Zurich-based independent perfume house. Kern was trained in Paris in the classical tradition of French perfumery. She is also well known as the close friend and collaborator of other Swiss indie perfumer Andy Tauer, whom we have had the pleasure of welcoming on this blog for an interview in the past.

Vero Kern currently offers a collection of three perfumes called Rubj, Onda, and Kiki. They are now available, in extraits de parfums versions, directly from her visually arresting website, which has been revamped as a shopping site.......

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