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December 2007 Archive
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 Voluspa has released two new scents in its Victoria Collection called Fleur de Café and Malayan Coco. The first one is a blend featuring notes of "African Coffee Flower, spiced Chai Tea, fresh Crème, and chopped Vanilla Bean." Malayan Coco also develops a gourmand theme with "Coconut Milk Accord, shaved Coconut Bark, rich Sandalwood, and eastern Hinoki Wood." Did we say that the greatest fresh coconut jam on earth is to be found in Malaysia? If only the perfume could smell like it!
Each scent is presented in a 0.5 oz roll-on available for $24 at Nooks and Niches.
The New Camaldoli Hermitage located in Big Sur, California is reputed for baking one of the best brandy-dipped fruitcakes in America and if you listen to the friars talking about it, it is quite frankly the best. They did comparative testing. Last year the fruitcakes were so popular they had to increase the production from 6000 to 8000 loaves........
Continue reading "Christmas Fruitcake Anyone? A Monastic Bestseller {Holiday Shopping Idea} {Fragrant Recipe}" »
Photo © Aedes de Venustas, Inc. Aedes de Venustas in collaboration with Molinard has launched an exceptional creation called Une Histoire de Chypre (A Chypre Story). The fragrance, based on an old recipe from the 1920s found in the Grassois perfume house's archives, was composed by perfumer Dominique Camilli of Molinard. Ingredients are reported to be top-notch. It is part of the more upscale Molinard 1849 collection bottled in atomizer flacons and is exclusively distributed by Aedes........
Continue reading "Une Histoire de Chypre by Molinard & Aedes de Venustas (2007) {New Fragrance}" »
 Perfume remains the gift of choice during the Holiday season and women are the biggest buyers. According to the NPD Group, which is quoted in an article in the Los Angeles Times, "More than Valentine's Day and Mother's Day combined, this is the season when scents translate into cents for the $3.96-billion fragrance industry. It pulls in a third of its annual revenue in December and 20% of the year's total in just the two weeks before Christmas, said Karen Grant, a beauty industry consultant for marketing information company NPD Group."
Perfume Gifts Smelling Good To Shoppers..... Poster available at allposters.com
OsMoz is organizing a giveaway contest that started on Dec 6, 2007 and will run until January 31, 2008. The contest is entitled, "Discover Issey Miyake’s New Fragrance, Eau d’Issey pour Homme INTENSE". Each day, depending on the period of the contest, 2 to 1 daily winners will be drawn randomly by computer. From Dec 25, only 1 winner a day will be selected........
Continue reading "L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme INTENSE Contest: A Bottle or 2 A Day To Win Til Jan 31, 2008 {Fragrance News}" »
Tocca released a new limited edition scented candle for the Holiday Season called Holiday Cortina Mimosa Candela. Unlike the name of the scent itself seems to suggest but better illustrated by the Champagne glasses decorating the glass container, the perfume has been studied to feel festive as it includes a Champagne top note.......
Continue reading "Tocca Holiday Mimosa Candle {Perfume Short (Review)} {Holiday Shopping Idea - $50 or Less] {New Fragrance}" »
 Marc Jacobs has been steadily adding new scents to his collection of giant splash bottles that immediately evoke an era in which colognes were to be found in the bathroom as indispensable hygienic waters and liberally applied. Although these scents are not meant to be used literally as generously, they nevertheless invite a more ample perfuming gesture........
Continue reading "Basil, Pear, & Grapefruit by Marc Jacobs (2008) {New Fragrances}" »
We don't know if the new patent called " LSS - Less Smoke Smell" that the third largest tobacco corporation in the world, Japan Tobacco International wants to apply for would be really effective - cigarettes reek anyway - but at least they are trying to dispel the bad-omen smells associated with cigarette consumption. Of course under this semblance of "improvement" brought to our collective quality of life or rather that of Canadians as the action seems to concentrate in that country for now, public health issues debated ad infinitum by the tobacco industry and health groups would only be further blurred rather than solved. Rather aptly and ironically the new cigarettes are called "Mirage Cigarettes" and like an odorless gas they might kill you even more surely apparently. This, shall we call it, "cosmetic cigarette", is considered even more dangerous by watch-groups and denounced by them. The tobacco people were just trying to pacify the Canadians who are noted for their hyper-sensitivity to manufactured smells in the public space..........
Continue reading "Nice-Smelling Cigarettes Are Still, Nay, Even More Dangerous For Your Health {The 5th Sense in the News}" »
(Continued from Part I of the Interview - please take a cup of tea and enjoy the second part!).
Douglas Hopkins: The story my new friend revealed over the course of many months -- she came to trust my genuine interest in my product, was not one of lawsuit, but one of her own life-long desire to revive the family fragrance [Prastara]. This
story tied in quite directly to the events of the end of WWII. Many people believe fragrance is at all levels a “money printing machine” – as the founder of Revlon once called it, but this exists only at the mass market level. Art versus commerce --commerce is where it is truly “juice”; as your devotees know, these are scents that most often don’t last beyond the first year and backed by a 20 million dollar launch promotion. As an art, it is a labor of love.
Marie-Hélène Wagner: Do you know the cologne’s original French name before it was christened with a Slavic name?
DH: This is subject to continuing investigation.
MHW: As this was a cologne developed by a chemist to Louis XIV, one would think there would be some documentation left about it in France? Have you conducted research from that angle?
- It is my understanding that there is no such documentation, but I must say in a case of high coincidence, one year after we offered the Versailles Museum the privilege of selling Prastara, they came out with their own brand claiming a French perfuming expert derived it from research. I've been unable to track this any further so I don't know one way or the other about its authenticity..........
Continue reading "Interview with Douglas Hopkins Part II: Perfumery As A Labor Of Love - {Passion for Perfume - Portrait}" »
Truly bad-smelling perfumes are a rarity. Atrocious-smelling ones even rarer. One finds many mediocre perfumes, simplistic ones, decent ones, and as Jean-Paul Guerlain remarked once, there are so many good perfumes in the world!
The two new releases by Molinard this year - admittedly in a low-priced line but it is no justification for even bothering to bottle such caricatures - Chypre d'Orient and Pêche de Vigne are positively and without ambiguity, the worst perfumes we have smelled so far this year. Molinard repackaged their perfumes into new art deco bottles, dressing them up in other words, but it seems that their efforts have concentrated on external appearance rather than on the scents themselves. The bottles are just OK and the juices are frankly absurd......
Continue reading "Chypre d'Orient, Pêche de Vigne by Molinard (2007) {Perfume Short (Reviews)}" »
L'Artisan Parfumeur sent this press communication, "In response to the questions posed on perfume forums and emailed to us by our customers, L’Artisan Parfumeur would like to clarify our position on the use of animal ingredients. We would like to assure our clients and your readers that L’Artisan Parfumeur does not use natural civet, musk or castoreum in our products. None of our products are tested on animals.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. We also would like to use this opportunity and wish you very Happy Holidays! Sincerely,
L’Artisan Parfumeur Team" Tel: (212) 794 3600
Image: Paris Village Vignon
Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby studying the foul-smelling pomander pendant she is made to wear during her pregnancy Dior has released a limited edition lip-gloss encased in a wonderful spherical pendant called Diorlight. We wanted to write about it because after seeing it in reality, it struck us as better-looking in person than on pictures. The differences? Diorlight's proportions are bolder than we had imagined them to be, so it makes it a more substantial, sculptural piece to play with and wear. It has a good quality sense of heft to it, without being too heavy, which can then cheapen a jewelry piece at the other end of the spectrum. So, it does not look or feel flimsy at all. It is just a beautiful ball pendant, encrusted with crystals......
Continue reading "Diorlight Lipgloss Necklace: Dreams of a Pomander Necklace {Holiday Shopping Idea - $100 or Less}" »
Some readers have queried us about alternative shopping locations for La Part des Anges besides Nordstrom.
Thierry Mugler answered that La Part des Anges is currently to be found at: "Bloomingdales, Saks, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom while supplies last. It is a Limited Edition item.
$220 for .33 fl. oz."
More information about the goals and attendees of this trade event available after the jump, courtesy of PXA's press release........
Continue reading "Perfume Expo America, May 12-14 2008 {Fragrance News} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}" »
Jean-Jacques Rousseau in an Armenian costume, Geneva "Les odeurs par elles-mêmes sont des sensations faibles ; elles ébranlent plus l’imagination que le sens, et n’affectent pas tant par ce qu’elles donnent que par ce qu’elles font attendre. Cela supposé, les goûts des uns, devenus, par leurs manières de vivre, si différents des goûts des autres, doivent leur faire porter des jugements bien opposés des saveurs, et par conséquent des odeurs qui les annoncent. Un Tartare doit flairer avec autant de plaisir un quartier puant de cheval mort, qu’un de nos chasseurs, une perdrix à moitié pourrie" (our translation after the jump).......
Continue reading "Scented Quote of the Day, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau:" »
December 2007 Archive
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