Japanese company Nihon Chemifelt has found a new way to recycle the green tea leaves used at an industrial level by tea brand Ito En while proposing an eco-friendly deodorizing solution for your toes: the green tea shoe insoles. Ito...
May 2008 Archives
Calvin Klein Secret Obsession (2008) {New Perfume}
If there is one mainstream Yankee perfume I would pull out of the drawer to demonstrate, that no, after all, not all perfumes in America are clean, just-showered-like and asexual, that would be Obsession by Calvin Klein. It breaks...
Jean-Michel Duriez Creates Coming Up Roses {The 5th Sense in the News}
Perfumer Jean-Michel Duriez who is the in-house nose for Jean Patou has created an anniversary fragrance for Procter & Gamble Prestige Products' 15th anniversary. P & G acquired Jean Patou in 2001. It is called Coming Up Roses and showcases...
Filles des Iles Floral Solaire subtitled Golden Floral (2008) {New Fragrance}
After the initial launch of a trio of debut fragrances last year, the brand Filles des Iles (Island Girls) have introduced a new creation for this summer called Floral Solaire (Solar Floral) and subtitled Golden Floral. It was composed...
Miss Ferling Baume de Dalmatie & Herbacin Kamille + Glycerin: 2 Hand-Creams Go Mano a Mano - Beauty Review {Bath & Body} {New Product}
Miss Ferling Baume de Dalmatie Baume de Dalmatie is the latest cute and cool hand-cream from Miss Ferling, a French brand. The packaging, a fun-looking tartan-decorated cardboard tube containing a slim and petite 15 ml metallic tube, is attractive although...
Cosmétotextiles: Intelligent Beautifying Textiles {Beauty News}
On May 15th 2008, the first meeting of the Congrès Cosmétotextiles (Cosmetotextile Congress) took place in Tours, France one of the annual conferences that are part of the activities of the competitive pole of the Cosmetic Valley. It introduces...
New Marais Boutique for Diptyque {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}
Diptyque has now opened a new boutique in the Marais neighborhood on the right bank not far from the place des Vosges. The first historic standalone for the brand is located on boulevard Saint-Germain in a quiet area that...
Ferragamo Tuscan Soul (2008) {New Fragrance}
Ferragamo will launch a new perfume in September 2008 called Tuscan Soul. Its name by the way is the exact English translation of Isabel Derroisné Ame Toscane, a bestseller of the brand. “...Tuscan Soul is designed to express the unique...
Hermès Un Jardin Après La Mousson (2008): A Strange, Original Tapestry of Familiar Accords {Perfume Review}
Hermès Un Jardin Après La Mousson - A Strange, Original Tapestry of Familiar Accords Perfume Review Un Jardin Après La Mousson is the latest and third fragrance installment in the Jardin series proposed by Hermès and created by in-house...
Kenzo Jungle pour Homme (1998) Advert with Satya Oblet {Perfume Adverts}
Kenzo Jungle Homme was created by Olivier Cresp and launched in 1998. It has notes of Maté, nutmeg, musk mallow seeds, Atlas cedar, blue cedar from Lebanon.The 1999 advert features model Satya Oblet, who is now the new face...
Airness Instinct Cool, Instinct Musk, Instinct Power & More Instincts (2008) {New Fragrances} {Men's Colognes}
Ex-boxer Malamine Koné the founder of sportswear brand Airness, reported to be the # 1 French sportswear brand, has partnered up with L'Oréal to propose a new line of 3 Eaux de Toilette and 3 déoparfums for men. The...
Quicksilver (2008) {New Fragrance} {Men's Cologne}
Surf and lifestyle Australian brand Quicksilver is launching their first fragrance, a masculine cologne, this summer called Quicksilver. It follows their sister brand Roxy's two women's perfumes Roxy and Roxy Love. As a "transgenerational" fragrance Quicksilver aims to reach...
Galerie Noémie Expeau 2 (2007) {New Fragrance}
Somehow after reporting on the faux new Galerie Noémie White Spirit relaunched rather than launched, as it turns out, in 2007, the Expeau 2 which debuted later that same year in November flew under our radar. So here is...
Do-It-Yourself Professional Beauty Care Gets High-Tech {Beauty News}
Do you know No! No!, Zeno, Clarisonic and other such high-tech tools for the coquette or the coquet? The beauty market is now proposing new-wave sophisticated equipment to zap your hair, zits, and shrink your pores, among other things,...
Bobbi Brown Almost Bare (2008): For People who Love Smells but not Perfumes {New Fragrance}
It is by now well known that makeup artist Bobbi Brown does not like perfume per se but that on the other hand she does enjoy smells which often translates into simple fragrances unencumbered with themselves (see here for...