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August 2008 Archive
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 Jil Sander Style, the original scent (2006), will see the addition of three flankers all at once offering three olfactory variations inspired and evoked by pastel colors. The new perfumes are called Blush Pink, Tender Green and Soft Yellow. They were all composed by Bernard Ellena of Symrise (he is incidentally the brother of famous Hermès in-house nose Jean Claude Ellena) and is also the creator of Jil Sander Style. The scents were co-created with nose Lucas Sieuzac...
Continue reading "Jil Sander Style Blush Pink, Tender Green, Soft Yellow (2008) {New Fragrances}" »
 Jessica Simpson Fancy is the singer's second foray into the world of fragrances following her dessert line of edible scents, which was based on a personal idea of hers. I do not remember exactly how I formed the subsequent notion, but I remember reading about that line in an interview given by Jessica Simpson and coming away with the impression that she must have been a gifted child and that these scents were an expression of her own idiosyncratic outlook on the world. This is to say that for the young singer and actress the confluence of perfume and food is there as one of the pathways built into her brain and as a personal interest of hers from early on. With Fancy, she did not waver from her initial interest, far from it. Despite the fact that the new fragrance is described officially as a floral oriental, it is at the same time very much a gourmand and a fruity-floral scent, done in a girly way. My preamble about Jessica's personal investment in the idea of what a fragrance can be is not to say that Fancy is an original perfume. In fact it is quite the contrary. It is very much in tune with a vein of perfumes that was especially exploited in the field of US celebs scents and which are built around a main self-indulgent sweet variation of fruit-salad-drizzled-over-with-cream, a very popular accord. The little difference we witness in this case is a slightly more grownup furry ambery facet reminiscent, however distantly, of classics such as Zibeline and Tabu. This vintage, retro touch, with a sprinkle of less-distant-in-time louder 1980s fashion-sense at times, has made a comeback recently in Guess by Marciano and others, and matches the style of the bottle...
Continue reading "Jessica Simpson Fancy (2008): Sweet Medley {Perfume Review} {New Fragrance} {Celebrity Scent}" »
 eBay has had to fight several luxury brands and groups lately (Hermès, LVMH, Tiffany, l'Oréal) who accuse the auction site of enabling illegal practices and of de facto allowing the sales of counterfeit products. The biggest blow has come from a French court so far as, not surprisingly, France is known for being extremely protective of one of its leading economic sectors, luxury, and has a history of tough laws on counterfeits (see previous posts)...
Continue reading "eBay Validated by Belgian Court {Fragrance News}" »
 The controversial Secret Obsession video: as you can see, it's all left up to your imagination (credit: You Tube)
In a gesture more symbolic than anything else, You Tube has decided to ban the controversial Eva Mendes video for Secret Obsession by Calvin Klein (see previous post) and thus unexpectedly chosen to follow the moral-majority lead of mainstream TV networks. But wait, this is what the Daily Dish - SF Gate reported about a few days ago and now the video is back on another page of You Tube or this is another copy that was left alone by community censors! God bless the human diversity of opinions; there is in fact a little war of the Secret Obsession ad going on! Someone pulls it out, someone else loads it up! Just be ready with your own video of Secret Obsession in case ammunitions start lacking...
Continue reading "The War around the Uncensored Calvin Klein Secret Obsession Video Continues on You Tube {Fragrance News}" »
 My apologies, I have been so busy off line that I neglected to follow up on the news of my new monthly column which is now featured on Glam.com! Dear Readers, From now on, each month I will be choosing for Glam.com three stand-out scents that I think are the best of the crop, usually for one element or two that they achieve to an exceptional degree...
Continue reading "Three Stunners for Midsummer: Top 3 Perfume Picks for July {Perfume Shorts} - New Monthly Perfume Feature on Glam.com {Fragrance News}" »
 Here is a very interesting article by Prof. Kamiel Koelman from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam which summarizes the position on perfume copyrights in Holland as based on the case of Trésor by Lancôme, which was examined by the courts in 2006. The paper raises a host of philosophical, biological, and legal questions and reveals the complexity of the issue. "The French cosmetics company, Lancôme, sells an exclusive perfume under the name Trésor (Treasure). Kecofa, a small Dutch firm, sells its Female Treasure perfume at a tenth of the price. Lancôme had previously tried to stop Kecofa by invoking its trademark right to the word Trésor,
but failed, because the courts found that consumers were unlikely to
confuse the brands. In 2000, after the Dutch Trademark act was
updated, Lancôme tried again, but this time also claimed infringement
of its copyright in the perfume. The trademark claim failed once more,
but - probably to Lancôme's surprise - the copyright claim succeeded
and was further sanctioned by the Dutch High Court.1 Coincidentally,
just three days before, the French Supreme Court had ruled that a
perfume - Dior's Dune - was not copyrightable. The French court likened
parfumeurs to mere craftsmen, like carpenters or plumbers, rather than
artists, and as such found their works not eligible for copyright
protection.2...
Continue reading "Article about Perfume Imitation & Copyrights: The Dutch Position {Fragrant Reading}" »
Once in a while you get to happen on a publicized picture of a perfumer holding his or her oeuvre. Most often treated as "éminences grises", men and women of the shadows in the recent past in order not to deflect attention from the brands, they now appear more frequently in the limelight. Here is a portrait of perfumer Carlos Benaïm presenting his latest perfume, Bulgari Jasmin Noir (he is also the author of the more widely known and wonderful Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds). You can see other pictures from the fragrance bash thrown for the new Bulgari scent here. 
 Aveda will launch a new signature perfume in November 2008 to celebrate its 30th anniversary called Ancient Attar Pure-Fume Spirit Aroma Spray. The scent takes its roots in the multi-secular tradition of South Asian perfumery while offering a contribution to the renascent field of natural perfumery, the latter a fact to be noted especially as coming from a global brand, "Inspired by the ancient art of Indian attar perfumes, Ancient Attar is
created with 100% botanical essential oils, including traditional attar
ingredients, rose and sandalwood, creating a modern, feminine aroma."
The perfume was created by in-house chief perfumer Ko-Ichi Shiozawa...
Continue reading "Aveda Ancient Attar Pure-Fume Spirit Aroma (2008) {New Fragrance}" »
 Desperate situations call for desperate means. After local inhabitants repeatedly complained about the suffocating stench emanating from nearby landfills in Mumbai (Bombay), India, the city government decided to remedy the bad odors with an herbal perfume. We know the relationship existing between perfume and hygiene, it can only be a temporary fix...
Continue reading "Mumbai Takes a Sniff and Perfumes Landfills {The 5th Sense in the News}" »
 Please take note and mark your calendars! Here are some wonderful news! Donna Karan have decided to permanently reintroduce several of their iconic fragrances that had become nearly impossible to find and then only at astronomical prices. The new collection housed in similar flacons is simply titled Donna Karan The Fragrance Collection. Chaos won't be a ghost of the past anymore nor Donna Karan Signature nor Fuel for Men. If Black Cashmere and the Essence Collection ( Lavender, Jasmine, Labdanum, Wenge) are slightly less phantasmal, they too had become quite elusive...
Continue reading "Donna Karan Chaos, Signature, Fuel for Men, & More: Back By Popular Demand! {Fragrance News} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}" »
August 2008 Archive
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Q & A With Serge Lutens - Part 2 {Perfume Q & A}
: I am impressed at all that you drew out of M. Lutens ...
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L'Artisan Parfumeur Mechant Loup (1997) {Perfume Review & Musings}
: Thank you for this review! I love Mechant Loup, I did not ...
chichi on
Aquolina Tweety (2008): Yellow Is Good {New Perfume}
: I hope everyone realises that Tweety is actually a boy canary. It ...
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Calvin Klein Man (2007) {Perfume Review & Musings} {Men's Cologne}
: I just love that necklace, I actually have something similar to that ...
jenny on
Emeshel Nubia Yellow, Green, Red, Rose, Violet (2008): Sensually Inspired by Ancient Arabian Virility {New Fragrances}
: Sexy bottles! Anyone can tell me where I could buy one of ...
Flora on
En Passant by Olivia Giacobetti at Editions de Parfums by Frederic Malle (2000) {Perfume Review & Musings}
: Happy New Year to you too! I adore this perfume, if I ...
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Perfume Review: Nina (The New Version) by Nina Ricci
: Crazy feminists trying to find an excuse to call anything "degrading". If ...
Mary on
Index of New Perfumes 2006, 2007, 2008; New Fragrances in Chronological Order {New Perfumes}
: I wore Must de Cartier Parfum (not EDT) from 1983 until 2001. ...
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Perfume Review & Musings: Terracotta Voile d'Eté by Guerlain
: Totally agree with you and you are an excellent writer. I lo-lo-love ...
Anne Moralis on
Fashion Exhibition on the Second Empire, 1852-1870: Sous L'Empire des Crinolines {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}
: Par ce site tu accède à de nombreuses descriptions de mode de ...
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Bulgari Omnia Green Jade (2008): Green with White Shadows {New Perfume}
: I like this. It has character. Not the tiresome nice, safe, "girly" ...
polarbear2 on
Olivier Durbano Parfums de Pierres Poèmes Jade (2008) {New Perfume}
: Sounds very interesting. I like green perfumes and if theres wood and ...
polarbear2 on
Bulgari Omnia Green Jade (2008): Green with White Shadows {New Perfume}
: What is spring water doing in a perfume ? Is this ...
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Sean Combs I Am King (2008) {New Fragrance} {Celebrity Perfume}
: I was at a mall recently, here in Miami, and I tried/got ...
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Avon Bond Girl 007 (2008) {Perfume Review} {New Fragrance} {Celebrity Fragrance}
: So, all in all, on which occasions do you think you would ...
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