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January 2008 Archive

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January 24, 2008

Jean-Charles Brosseau Fleurs D'Ombre: Rose (2006) {Perfume Review} {Smell-The-Roses-Till-Valentine's Day Challenge - Day 9}

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After the hit that was Ombre Rose launched in 1981, milliner Jean-Charles Brosseau continued to issue feminine perfumes that were linked to the original Ombre Rose by an olfactory floral theme and the metaphor of the shade in the series entitled Fleurs D'Ombre (Flowers of the Shade or Shadow). The poetic title is an indirect reference to the Proustian title A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs and the central role that perfume plays to conjure up a lost world, a magical operation described in the most minute details by Marcel Proust. The phrase goes well with the romantic slightly nostalgic style of the perfumes, the vintage flacon reproduced from an antique mold and it is a reference also to the impression of cool shade that is incorporated in the fragrances in the series......

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January 25, 2008

The Pink Room UK Pour Toi (2008) {New Perfume}

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The Pink Room UK have released a perfume that can be characterized as being a "literary" one as it was inspired by writer Colette and her heroine Gigi. It is called Pour Toi (For You) and according to the copy outlines the progression of Gigi from the innocent days of her childhood to her later days as she blooms into a fully-grown seductress.

Notes are: Lemon, Blackcurrant, Grapefruit, Rose, Fleur de Melati, Lily of the Valley, Sandalwood, Vanilla, White musk.

A 50 ml flacon retails for $120, a 10 ml purse atomizer for $45, and you can sample it for $4 at Luckyscent. 

The Body Shop White Musk Blush, Japanese Cherry Blossom (2008) {New Fragrances}

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The Body Shop have introduced two new scents called White Musk Blush and Japanese Cherry Blossom, both in eaux de toilette concentrations.

White Musk Blush is part of a recent effort launched by The Body Shop to update and draw on the popularity of their original White Musk fragrance. The fall of 2007 saw the releases of a collection of ancillary products and spins on the original oil as well as a masculine version with White Musk for Men. This spring we are discovering a light, fruity-floral adaptation of the popular scent....  

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Yves Rocher Rose Ispahan {Perfume Review In A Nutshell} {Smell-The-Roses-Till-Valentine's Day Challenge - Day 10}

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Rose Ispahan by Yves Rocher offers a filiation with Yves Rocher Ispahan in as much as it seems to belong to the same soft-oriental family. Little information is forthcoming however as the scent is discontinued. The Rose of Ispahan or Isfahan is a varietal of rose also called Pompon des Princes.

Rose Ispahan, it turns out, is indeed a pompon-y perfume, evocative of the very texture of the rose after which it was named. Imagine a downy comforter metaphorically filled with rose petals instead of goose down, vanilla beans, and amber, maybe some yellow peaches.....

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January 27, 2008

Serge Lutens Sa Majesté La Rose (2000): If Ivan The Terrible Were A Rose {Perfume Review} {Smell-The-Roses-Till-Valentine's Day Challenge - Day 11}

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Sa Majesté La Rose (Her Majesty The Rose) by Serge Lutens is a soliflore composition centering on Moroccan rose absolute. The perfume showcases to a certain extent the brutality and rawness of rose absolute, making it only relatively tamer and more civilized, but without attempting to hide or tone down its rough-diamond aspect. It is an ode to the triumphant nature of the raw material and to an all-engulfing central presence.

Apart from rose amateurs, people who like metallic perfumes and a certain measure of natural aggressiveness in their scents may turn their attention to this prima donna of a rose perfume. Once she enters the room, it is as if she expected all glances to converge towards her....

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January 28, 2008

Perfume News in Brief {New Fragrances in 2008}

 

• Independent French Lille-based perfumer Hubert Maes is widening his distribution network beyond By Terry and is planning to release two new feminine perfumes during the first semester of 2008.

• François Demachy has overseen the creation of a new version of Miss Dior Chérie called Eau de Printemps, which is reported to be even more floral. (50 ml, 54,59 €)....

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New Tokyo Address For Le Labo + New Exclusive {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses} {Fragrance News}

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 Le Labo in Daikanyama

Le Labo, the independent creative perfumery with a Jacobin mindset set up by two French ex-marketing exec (see our Q & A) in New York city is continuing its global expansion by inaugurating both in-store spaces and stand-alone stores in key urban parts of world, i.e. fashion capitals. They recently inaugurated some counter space at Colette, Paris, a store at Liberty in London and have now a new store in Tokyo, Japan. The design is clean, industrial, minimalist, in tune with Le Labo concept, that of offering perfumes mixed straight from the lab with as little chichi as possible, except for the indulgence of seeing one's name printed on the bottle label.......

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Alberta Ferretti To Launch Signature Perfume With Elizabeth Arden {Fragrance News}

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Milan-based Italian fashion designer Alberta Ferretti will launch her signature fragrance in the spring of 2009. A long-term exclusive world-wide licensing agreement was signed between fashion group Aeffe, founded by Alberta Ferretti and her brother Massimo in 1981, and cosmetics company Elizabeth Arden to that effect. The Alberta Ferretti fragrance will be followed by cosmetics and skincare products.....

 

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Perfume & Mores in America Through The Lens of Ugly Betty {The 5th Sense in the News}


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Is perfume consumption tellingly seen today in America as the sign of an addictive personality, the mark of excess, and even the potential cause for murderous rage and death by poison? Writers Silvio Horta and Bill Wrubel for an episode of the series Ugly Betty have answered yes to all of the above and portrayed fragrance as the new path to perdition in Odor in the Court on ABC on Jan 17.

It is perhaps a faint echo of Süskind's outré characterization of the power of perfume as well as a popularization of the views that fragrance in the working and social places has become the new public enemy for a number of persons suffering from intolerance and/or allergies to perfume and/or fragrance wearers. The story certainly points to anxieties concerning the use of chemicals in perfumes at a time when the green, organic trend is developing more and more....

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Caswell-Massey Dr. Hunter's Rosewater & Glycerine Hand Creme {Perfume Review} {Beauty Notes} {Smell-The-Roses-Till-Valentine's Day Challenge - Day 12}

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Dr. Hunter's Rosewater & Glycerine Hand Creme by Caswell-Massey - one of the oldest American brands founded by Dr. William Hunter in 1752 in Newport, Rhode Island - smells like the roses cultivated by our grand-mothers in their gardens, in the best sense possible of this representation. The scent of the cream is delicate, fresh, very realistic and refined enough to evoke the fruitiness of Nahema by Guerlain; in short, it is an impressively scented hand cream. So much so that more than a good hand cream it can double up as a fragrance cream as the perfume feels intense enough to fulfill this purpose.

We noticed that it is best to apply this cream like one would a mask rather than a cream that would need to be rubbed in. The rose perfume just smells much better when left alone as much can be......

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