A little dose of fairy-tale does not hurt in times of recession as someone was telling me off the record. Paris Hilton has thus turned into the celebrity version of a sweet Tinker Bell to promote her new fragrance Fairy...
Fragrance aficionados will be delighted to learn that Serge Lutens has opened a new official site for the brand at http://www.sergelutens.com. It showcases a number of interesting, never-seen-before pictures, quotes, a short expressionist film that was selected for the Cannes...
Eau d'Italie is preparing to launch a new perfume with a richly evocative name, Baume du Doge. It is inspired by the vision of a past trading and thriving Venice seen as a crossroads of civilizational and material influences,"Roots, barks,...
The Editions Paja will publish a new book on perfume in October-November 2008 authored by Béatrice Boissière under the artistic direction of Coco Tassel. It is entitled Plaisirs de Parfums (Pleasures of Perfumes) and proposes to retrace a world history...
Columbia Poppy by Girard & Cie from Ragoarts Boots Pharmacy chain has become interested in the archives of an old British perfume house from the turn of the 20th century named Girard & Cie and decided to resurrect the...
Les Plus Belles Lavandes de Caron (The Most Beautiful Lavenders by Caron) was announced in 2008 as an unisex Eau-de-Cologne iteration of the house of Caron's famous masculine scent Pour Un Homme (For a Man). As if to make the...
Teo Cabanel launched a new and fourth fragrance called Méloé Eau Fraîche. Described as an "Epicurian symphony" it offers light, green and fruity notes. It was composed by in-house perfumer Jean-François Latty.Notes are initially fresh and citrusy with bergamot, mandarin,...
This fall Christian Lacroix is releasing a new woodsy-floral flanker to their juvenile fruity-floral C'est La Fête introduced last year. It is called C'est La Fête Patchouli.The flacon is colored in plum this time, a very fashionable tint this autumn....
Parlux Fragrances know about the media-attention capital Paris Hilton possesses and that's the main point,"Katz takes a wide-gauge view of the Hilton business. To him, a fragrance launch is a process of bringing news to the Hilton customer. Whether it...
Lavandin AbrialisReviewing By Kilian Prelude To Love yesterday, I puzzled over the question of why this young and exclusive niche perfume house had decided to compose a bold citrus-y fragrance, quite literally plugging into a group of notes that from...
Prelude To Love, Invitation is the seventh fragrance under the label By Kilian and part of their collection titled L'Oeuvre Noire (The Black Masterpiece). It was composed by perfumer Calice Becker who signs here her fifth contribution to the line...
Next month L'Occitane will add a newcomer to their select collection of fragrances titled Notre Flore (Our Flora) dedicated to praising the olfactory notes of the Mediterranean world. This time Le Jasmin - Jasmine makes its entrance with a composition...
This is my favorite masculine ad so far. When Dior Sport pour Homme and Guerlain Homme are trying to capture your attention these days on the airwaves and the street even, and do by the way, but lack a little...
Lush have issued or rather re-issued three discontinued perfumes from their archives in their collection of back-by-popular-demand products called Retro Lush. It comprises Flower Market Perfume, inspired by Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, Ginger Perfume and Icon Perfume, evocative...
Les Parfums de Rosine have created a new perfume showcasing an accord of rose, chocolate and Lapsang Souchong tea called Rose Praline. "We imagine silk rustles, babblings and downed laughter, one thousand one delicate and tender delicacies, bouquets of languid...