Nina Ricci will launch a new flanker to its blockbuster French success Nina called Love by Nina in March of 2009. If the first fragrance featured a caramelized red apple, the new version goes for more freshness by replacing that...
February 2009 Archives
Serge Lutens Interview on Luxury + Video about Salons Shiseido {Fragrant Reading}
French luxury webzine Elle Adore Le Luxe (She Adores Luxury) has an interview with Serge Lutens dating from 2008 on the topic of luxury. Excerpts:"Luxury means being able to say... What one thinks......
Zadig et Voltaire Tome 1 La Pureté (2009): Collaboration with Le Labo {New Perfume} + New Store in New York City
French fashion label Zadig et Voltaire founded by Thierry Gillier, whose basic tenet is to provide "affordable luxury" will launch their first personal fragrance with the help of niche perfume house Le Labo*. The house already has a line of...
Kelly Calèche Eau de Parfum (2009): More Than A New Concentration, More Than A Flanker {Perfume Review & Musings} {New Fragrance}
Kelly Calèche Eau de Toilette was launched in the summer of 2007 followed in 2008 by a pure parfum version. The Kelly Calèche Eau de Parfum iteration is the latest olfactory form and incarnation of Kelly Calèche to come out...
Women Smell of Onion; Men of Cheese {The 5th Sense in the News}
A humorous-sounding scientific finding which comes across as the olfactory equivalent of "Women are from Venus and Men are from Mars" reveals that each sex emits different scents in the armpit region when it is subjected to bacteria action......
Osmotheque Visit at Musee Galliera: Crinolines & Perfumes {Scented Paths & Fragrant Adresses}
The Osmothèque, the Versailles-based French conservatory of perfumes is organizing a special guided tour of the exhibition Sous L'Empire des Crinolines (see pictures of the exhibition here) at the Musée Galliera on March 6, 2009 at 3:15 pm. Patricia de...
Weird & Weirder Beauty Secrets: Upcoming Beauty Series on Beauty & The Salamander
Here is a taste of things to come on Beauty & The Salamander: we are going to inaugurate an open series entitled Weird Beauty Secrets, both a historic and on-trend, believe me, series. Like for our Rose Series on the...
Weird Beauty Secrets: Upcoming Beauty Series on Beauty & The Salamander {Beauty News}
Here is a taste of things to come on the beauty blog, Beauty & The Salamander: we are going to inaugurate an open series entitled Weird Beauty Secrets, both a historic and on-trend, believe me, series. Like for our Rose...
Best Unique-Smelling Perfumes for a Unique You on Days Like Valentine's Day: Part 1 {Scented Thoughts} {Perfume List}
As announced previously last month, here is my follow-up article on the idea of turning to "Perfumes That Smell Unique Because You Are Unique" on how to pick fragrances that have an unique signature to them and seem to defeat...
Etruscan Perfume To Reveal Its Secrets {Fragrance News}
It will reportedly be possible to get an idea of how the Etruscans scented themselves, or their dead, as a funerary Etruscan perfume vase made of alabaster excavated in 2005 contains enough perfume oils to be analyzed and reconstituted. The...
Treasures of the Black Death Yields a Scent Bottle: Upcoming Exhibition at the Wallace Collection {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}
A fascinating exhibition on the Treasures of the Black Death will open on February 19, 2009 and run until May 10, 2009 at the Wallace Collection in London. As the plague raged in 14th century Europe, Jewish communities were used...
Mitsouko Fleur de Lotus: A Hit {Fragrance News}
Mitsouko Fleur de LotusAlthough some people expressed misgivings regarding the creation of a new flanker to the classic Mitsouko by Guerlain (1919), titled Mitsouko Fleur de Lotus, featuring an all-too-audacious aquatic floral note, the field report is that the new...
Francis Kurkdjian Honored by French Government {Fragrance World News}
Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, author of Le Mâle, Fleur du Mâle, Le Sillage de la Reine, Indult fragrances, and so many other fragrances in varied sectors of perfumery will be honored by the French government with the decoration of the Chevalier...
Strange Invisible Perfumes Epic Gardenia, Aquarian Roses, Urban Lily: 3 Modern Soliflores for Spring 09 {New Perfumes}
California-based niche perfumery Strange Invisible Perfumes which takes its name from an evocative Shakespeare quote found in Antony and Cleopatra: "From the barge a strange invisible perfume hits the sense of the adjacent wharfs" will offer unconventional if not strange...
Christian Lacroix Absynthe (2009): Let The Mystery Unfolds {Perfume Images & Adverts}
The absinthe drink has retained an aura of things forbidden and dangerous even while it has been made legally possible to consume it anew today. While all alcoholic beverages can be candidates to mystical ascents as sung by poets like...