The Beckhams moved to the United States before their new duo of fragrances, Intimately Beckham Night for Men and Intimately Beckham Night Women will cross the Atlantic. The perfumes were launched in September of 2007 in Asia and Europe...
January 2008 Archives
Whimsical Yet Practical Definitions of "Linear" & "Olfactory Pyramid" {Perfume Words}
A linear perfume is one that is like a lady dressed in a fur coat wearing nothing underneath who flashes it open revealing everything and strikes the same pose overtime, unafraid to catch cold.This type of perfume is generally...
Stetson TV Spot with Tom Brady {Scented Images}
Set yourself free, with a little cologne! Tom Brady is racing (in a car) with a black stallion in the wide open Western American spaces (California in fact). Aaah, the nostalgia for the frontier days is palpable!...
Henry Cavill Adds A Celeb Note To Dunhill London + Meet & Greet in London {Fragrance News} {Celebrity Perfume} {Men's Cologne}
Continuing to add portraits to our gallery of celebrities that lend their name and fame to perfumes, we can now report that actor Henry Cavill who plays Charles Brandon the 1st Duke of Suffolk in the popular series, The...
Guerlain L'Âme d'Un Héros (2008) {New Perfume} {Men's Cologne}
In the collection of Guerlain re-editions called Les Parisiennes, the new addition is called L'Âme d'Un Héros (The Soul of a Hero) in reference to "the legendary Roman general Coriolanus, who inspired Shakespeare and Beethoven, as well as Plutarch."...
Cruel Gardenia by Guerlain (2008) {New Fragrance}
Guerlain is releasing two new creations in early 2008, a feminine and a masculine respectively called Cruel Gardenia and L'Ame d'un Héros (see next post). According to Guerlain, Cruel Gardenia, in the L'Art et La Matière collection, promises to...
Robert Piguet New e-Commerce Website & The 60th Anniversary of Fracas {Fragrance News}
Robert Piguet have taken the practical and gratifying decision, for consumers of quality niche perfumes, of opening a new e-commerce website; "niche" does not need to equate "difficult to get". Their catalogue now comprises the following re-editions and re-workings...
Taking The Opium Express -The Yves Saint Laurent Opium Exhibition in Paris {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses} {Guest Contributor}
Odalisk by Seb Janiak © Pauline/The Scented Salamander I have the great pleasure of introducing our new contributor, Pauline. She is based in Paris, enjoys fragrance but is even more interested in beauty and cultural topics in general and will...
Fragrance & Beauty Trends in China: News In Brief {Fragrance News}
South China Woman by Wang Yidong, 1988 According to a press release by the NPD Group, within the Chinese beauty market in 2007 skincare products (71 %) were much more heavily consumed than fragrance (12%) with both perfume and...
How The Dali Perfumes Came To Be {The 5th Sense in the News}
Apparition of the face of the Aphrodite of Knidos, 1981 There is an interesting article regarding the collaboration between Jean-Pierre Grivory chairman of Parfums Salvador Dali and the artist himself. It details how the relationship came to be and how...
A Preview of the New Thierry Mugler Ad for the Mirror Perfumes {Scented Image}
There are five perfumes in the new Thierry Mugler collection called Miroir, Miroir. Here is a peek at the advertisement where each scent represents a different facet of the same woman who is goddess-like. The quintet already debuted at Sephora...
Parfums 137 Nara 1869: New House, Unique Old Stories (2008) {New Fragrances} {Historical Perfumes}
Parfums 137 subtitled Jeux de Parfums (Perfume Games) is a new French perfume brand that proposes an interesting, both learned and playful serialized concept, that of introducing each semester a new range of three perfumes meant to be layered...
Estée Lauder Pure White Linen Light Breeze Heralds Spring (2008) {New Fragrance}
Estée Lauder have introduced a new flanker to Pure White Linen, itself a modernized, more transparent version of White Linen. The new addition, as always fronted by actress Gwyneth Paltrow, is called Pure White Linen Light Breeze and is...
Guerlain Mayotte (2006) & Mahora EDT (2001) {Perfume Review in a Nutshell} {Fragrance Ads}
In 2006 Guerlain added Mayotte to its collection of re-editions called Les Parisiennes. It was made immediately clear that it was a re-bottling of the failed Mahora issued in 2000 -- an Eau de Toilette version had also been...
Givenchy Les Mythiques Now at Sephora {Shopping Tip}
The collection of re-editions by Givenchy called Les Mythiques (The Mythical Ones) is now partly available at Sephora online (not in stores). The titles offered are: Givenchy III, L'Interdit, Monsieur de Givenchy, Xeryus, and Eau de Givenchy, each for $85....