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 The CPC Packaging magazine have two features on perfume and beauty packaging explaining why these stood out from the hundreds of new launches in 2008. They look for innovation, however discreet, and technical challenges overcome by the design team rather than pure aesthetic beauty (cf. for example the 3121 packaging for Prince's scent). Here's their commentary on the 2008 Fifi Awards for perfume packaging, "Great minds think alike" is a saying that often rings true when it
comes to fragrance package design. Looking at the past year's fragrance
launches, it seems that some marketers were inspired by the same
trends. However, each trend was interpreted uniquely for each fragrance
bottle."...
Continue reading "Perfume Packaging Awards Commentary by CPC {Fragrant Reading} {Fragrance News}" »
 A new book dedicated to perfume objects called Objets du Parfum: confidences d'un collectionneur has been newly available since the end of November 2008 for those interested in the history of perfumery and the applied artistic manifestations it encourages. The collector alluded to in the title is Jean François Costa a member of the families that make up the Fragonard perfumery and an avid collector as well as fragrance industrialist...
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 Jean Paul Gaultier is bringing his designer's mind to perfume by offering more varied supports for it than the traditional fragrance bottle. The novelty trend, an always popular one during the holidays, will be illustrated with a charms necklace and musical boxes. For the end of the year 2008, the brand has released a collection of musical Christmas coffrets containing Classique, Le Mâle, and Fleur du Mâle respectively. Classique slides open to the tune of Love Me Tender sung by Elvis Presley and Le Mâle and Fleur du Mâle both to that of The Entertainer interpreted by Scott Joplin. "The Classique coffret, which contains a 100ml edt and a body lotion, is
priced at €72. The Le Male set, comprising a 125ml edt and all-over
shower gel, is €57. The Fleur du Male coffret, which also features a
125ml edt and shower gel, retails at €59."... 
Continue reading "Jean Paul Gaultier Musical Coffrets (2008), Bijou Parfume (2009) {Fragrance News}" »
 Prada who would get bored if they had to run conventional advertising campaigns for their perfumes is once more turning to the silver screen to help promote both Prada Amber and the arts. Until December 31, 2008 Amber is the main character of a short animated film entitled Fallen Shadows by James Lima shown in 300 Italian movie theaters before and after the main feature. The Fallen Shadows campaign also appears in the press in Italy, UK, and US...
Continue reading "Prada Amber on the Silver Screen: Fallen Shadows {Fragrance News} {Scented Images}" »
 Samsung is continuing to play the olfactory card and this time hopes to attract female customers that are attuned to the perfume and beauty worlds as well as brands. After their anonymous aromatherapeutic lavender-scented cellphone, the Korean brand now just launched in France a new cellphone co-branded with Cacharel, the E250, which comes together with a beauty coffret containing a Sensual Milk for the body and a bottle of Amor Amor Eau de Toilette. The design of the cellphone has been made to look the part, with a feminine, flowery decor, "Samsung et Cacharel se sont associés pour concocter un mobile empreint de sensualité et de féminité. Ce E250 est en effet aussi élégant à l'extérieur qu'à l'intérieur (fonds d'écrans spécifiques). Mieux, ce mobile est fourni avec un coffret de beauté Cacharel. N'attendez pas la Saint Valentin pour faire plaisir à votre chère et tendre."...
Continue reading "Samsung E 250 Cacharel Cellphone Smells of Amor Amor...ou presque {Fragrance News} {Fragrant Shopping}" »
 Marie-Madeleine by Quentin Metsys (1465/66-1530), Musée du Louvre
Mary of Magdala or Mary Magdalene or Marie Madeleine in French is very often represented in Christian iconography with an emblematic pot of unguents or a perfume flacon as she is the one who used perfume - one of the most expensive kinds it is said - to anoint Christ's feet and dry them with her red hair. She is also considered to be the patroness-saint of perfumers as well as hairdressers, prostitutes, and gardeners. For a group of Franciscan archaeologists from the group Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, the discovery of perfume containers dating back to Christ's time in Magdala in today's Israel is therefore of great potential significance,...  One of the perfume/unguent phials found on the Magdala site
Continue reading "Archaeologists Find Unguents in Magdala Dating Back to Christ's Time {Fragrance News} {Cultural Notes}" »
 Francis Kurkdjian at the French embassy in Washington D.C. in June 2008
Renowned perfumer Francis Kurkdjian who already operates independently as a bespoke perfumer (also see his malle du parfumeur) aside from his Takasago corporate affiliation has announced that he will establish his own fragrance house in Paris by summer 2009. It will be called Maison Francis Kurkdjian and will be located in the first arrondissement of the French capital city. The name Maison Francis Kurkdjian promises to recover a new multi-layered reality of the perfume scene and perhaps inspire others in the future. One of the things it is not? A brand, bien sûr. The interesting aspect of this non-brand project is the complexity and comprehensiveness of the concept that guides the foundation of the perfume house and its aim in particular to go beyond the by now classic concept of "niche perfumery"....
Continue reading "Maison Francis Kurkdjian To Open by Summer 2009: New Fragrance House Goes Beyond The Niche Concept & Opts for Pluralism {Fragrance News}" »
 Fans of Marc Jacobs Daisy will be pleased to know that a limited-edition titled Daisy Blooms, the Sticker - Autocollants Edition will be out in February 2009...
Continue reading "Marc Jacobs Daisy Blooms (2009): Young and Younger {Fragrance News - Limited Edition}" »
 The yearly edition of German perfume guide Parfums Edition by publishing house Ebner Verlag has launched its 2009 edition. This year, the guide is co-authored by Susanne Opalka teaming up with regular contributor Uschi Rollar...
Continue reading "Parfums Edition 2009 by Susanne Opalka & Uschi Rollar {Fragrant Reading - New Book}" »
 Like each year since 1984, author and arguably pillar of the fragrance industry Michael Edwards publishes a new augmented edition of Fragrances of the World, a compendium of the fragrances that are available in the international market in designer but also niche categories (since 1998) while also listing new flankers and limited-editions. Its comprehensive and cumulative character has earned it the nickname of the "Retail Bible" (of the perfume industry). For the 25th anniversary of Fragrances of the World, Michael Edwards is marking the jubilee with a special edition titled the Silver Anniversary Edition. According to the press release, " Fragrances
of the World 2009 classifies over 6,500 fragrances and adds more than 800 new
releases."... 
Continue reading "Fragrances of the World 2009 Silver Anniversary Edition {Fragrance News} {Fragrant Reading}" »
 Last year, we announced the debut of Social Creatures a new brand of perfumes with a conceptual outlook, artisan sensitivity, and professing the manifest belief that perfume is imbricated within the fabric of society and history. They also believe in intuition, "Trust your intuition: usually your first subconscious judgment about a new situation is based on how it smells." The latest news are that they have finally launched the pre-announced Frankfurt Kitchen, a feminine fragrance "... inspired by the progressist kitchen designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky in 1926," It has taken them a total of 3 years to develop the composition and while it had been scheduled for release in December 2007, it has been introduced only this month... The 30 ml EDP and the 10 and 15 ml travel sizes
Continue reading "Social Creatures Frankfurt Kitchen for Women (2008) {New Perfume} {Fragrance News} " »
 Vivienne Westwood at the Chaos Point Gala Dinner on November 18, 2008
After Sir Paul Smith last year, fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood was honored with the 2nd award of the UK Circle of Champions given by the US Fragrance Foundation, on November 19th 2008. The membership recognizes a personality's notable contribution to the fragrance industry...
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 L'Artisan Parfumeur Mon Numéro
The International Herald Tribune has a piece on bespoke perfumery in which Cartier, L'Artisan Parfumeur, Guerlain and Francis Kurkdjian are featured. As long as the brands can sell a few or just only one perfume priced at $20 000 or 40 000 €, it seems to make a lot of sense to focus one's target on to the rich in a troubled economy. L'Artisan Parfumeur for instance is launching in January 2009 a collection of unique creations called Mon Numéro, housed in similarly one-of-a-kind flacons hand-blown by master glazier Pascale Riberolles. It will remain a Paris exclusive though. You can read more about this trend here...
 The wave of appointments of in-house perfumers continues to garner momentum. After its forerunner, Hermès, then Dior, also L'Artisan Parfumeur and last but not least, Guerlain, Rochas is also counting on a thorough refurbishing of its image that comes with the revival of the once dwindling public figure of the in-house perfumer despite Chanel's exceptionalism. Women's Wear Daily has announced today that Jean-Michel Duriez who so far was associated in this capacity with the house of Jean Patou, will fulfill the same function at Rochas, a brand also owned by the Procter & Gamble group...
Continue reading "Jean-Michel Duriez Named In-House Perfumer at Rochas {Fragrance News}" »
 Jo Malone is inviting you to study Pomegranate Noir cologne in a way this fall, by introducing the Tasting Kit. Ok, this is not a new fruit-laden lady's liqueur by Jo Malone, so don't drink it just yet! Do you remember that scene in Gone With The Wind where Scarlett O'Hara cunningly (ahem) guzzles down a partial bottle of Eau de Cologne to cover her unladylike whiskey breath? A nice idea that has not yet been marketed in this day and age because thanks to social progress you can still be perceived as being a lady while wafting of Johnnie Walker, so this is not it...
Continue reading "Jo Malone Tasting Kit {Fragrance News}" »
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