Your Body, Your Soul © 2017 CHANT WAGNER To mark the vote today in the German parliament of the legalization of same-sex marriage (Ehe für alle), we're pulling out another photograph from the Gay Pride parade in Paris last...
June 2017 Archives
Les Parfums de Rosine Cologne Rose Ocean (2017) {New Fragrance}
French niche perfume house Les Parfums de Rosine has launched a new, unisex composition this summer season called Cologne Rose Océan, which is explicitly done within the framework of the eau-de-cologne genre......
Mugler Hot Cologne (2017)// For Bookish Perfume Lovers {Perfume Review & Musings}
Mugler Hot Cologne is a spin both on the suave gentleman's after-shave - and closer to home - on the neo-classical-smelling Mugler Cologne composed by perfumer Alberto Morillas. Part of the collection Les Exceptions created in 2014, it aims...
Fashion & Street Style {Paris Street Photography}
Fashion and Street Style - Myth & Reality © 2017 CHANT WAGNER Fashion and street style seem to be opposed in this photograph of women browsing books and engravings at a "bouquiniste" on a quay of the Seine river...
Happy Pride 2017! // Joyeuse Marche des Fiertés 2017 ! {Paris Street Photography}
The point of departure of the Gay Pride parade on Place de la Concorde in Paris © 2017 CHANT WAGNER There were so many good moments at the Gay Pride 2017, called La Marche des Fiertés in French. Here...
Biotherm Eau Relax (2017) // For Overstretched Women {New Perfume}
One more wellness fragrance from France debuting this summer of 2017: it's called Eau Relax by Biotherm, one of the ubiquitous French pharmacy beauty brands populating the Hexagon's well-stocked shelves......
Hermès to Launch New Scent at the End of Summer 2017 {Fragrance News}
It's almost more a confession than an item for a news column - and maybe I should whisper it rather than type it and publish it, but here you go: Hermès will launch a new perfume composition from the...
Le Couvent des Minimes Eau de l'Angelus & Eau du Prieuré (2017) {New Scents}
Le Couvent des Minimes has released two new scents for summer 2017 called Eau de l'Angelus and Eau du Prieuré, in keeping with their attachment to the monastic perfumery tradition of herbal recipes blending for wellness purposes......
Ralph Lauren Woman (2017) {New Perfume}
American fashion designer Ralph Lauren is launching a new feminine pillar simply called Woman, which reprises some of the codes of the brand's universe, in particular its preference for romantic flacons suggestive of inkwells......
Caudalie Eau des Vignes (2017) {New Perfume}
French-pharmacy and beauty brand Caudalie has issued a new perfume called Eau des Vignes, not to be confused with Fleur de Vigne......
Women in White // Femmes en blanc - Hi to Summer II // Salut à l'été II {Paris Street Photography}
Women in White // Femmes en blanc © 2017 CHANT WAGNER Wearing white in the sunlight will attract the gaze from far away. I saw a vision of whiteness and hoped it would be the luminous veil of a...
Raf Simmons Directs Calvin Klein Obsessed for Women & Obsessed for Men (2017) {New Perfume} {Perfume Images & Ads}
Calvin Klein launched a new her-and-him duo called Obsessed for Women & Obsessed for Men, which is about contemporaneity meeting the past, photography meeting perfume, masculinity meeting femininity creating a creative and gender-bending tension......
Hi to Summer - I // Salut à l'été - I {Paris Street Photography}
Summer Light on a Seine's Quay // Lumière d'été sur un quai de la Seine © 2017 CHANT WAGNER Here's a photograph to mark the beginning of summer 2017. It was taken a few days back but the light...
Elie Saab Girl of Now (2017) {New Perfume}
Lebanese fashion designer Elie Saab is launching a new pillar fragrance for women called Girl of Now, named after his social-justice and "brand-activation" initiative dedicated to empowering young women especially in the Middle East, with partners like Womena......
Cologne in American English {Perfume Words & Vocabulary}
Can you smell what The Rock is cooking with this word "cologne"? "Cologne", derived from the French phrase "eau de cologne", is the word American English has come up with to designate almost exclusively perfume worn by men, not...