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October 30, 2008

Tom Ford Private Blend Rollerball Collection Gift Set {Fragrance News}: Wind of Change?


Tom-Ford-Private-Blend-Samples.jpgNiche perfumery is becoming increasingly mainstream as the forums, blogs and magazines attest to the phenomenon, yet sampling some of the more selective and highly-priced brands can still remain a challenge; traditionally this is considered to be part of the game.

Yet the elitist Frederic Malle brand has recently taken the step of making their perfumes available to a larger audience by setting up an online sample program; It has the advantage of being both flexible and low-cost as the price tag covers shipping only...


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October 24, 2008

Creed Text Alerts {Fragrance News}

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The house of Creed have announced that they have set up a new text-alert service to respond more efficiently to the numerous queries emanating from their fan base. According to the press release,...

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October 22, 2008

Floris Discontinues Fragrances {Perfume News}


floris_shopFront.jpgThe house of Floris has confirmed to TSS that they will discontinue several fragrances from their catalog "...to make way for future launches." The perfumes which are going to be withdrawn from circulation are: Vetiver, China Rose, Zinnia and even the renowned Malmaison, a carnation scent of choice in perfumistas' circles. It is a lovely blend and will be missed for the history and charm it exudes...

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October 21, 2008

Vincent Cassel to be Face of New Yves Saint Laurent Men's Fragrance {Perfume News} {Celebrity Fragrance}

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French actor Vincent Cassel will lend his looks to a new masculine fragrance by Yves Saint Laurent to be launched next spring on March 2, 2009. YSL in this manner will follow up on the success of L'Homme which was well-served by the image of another French actor, Olivier Martinez...

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October 16, 2008

Thieves Love Frederic Malle Perfumes {Fragrance News}

Thieves.jpgThe Islington Gazette reports that a truck carrying a load of Frederic Malle Editions de Parfums fragrances was robbed. 227 bottles vanished including a contingent of the new Dans Tes Bras. I wonder how the robbers could resell those without being noticed given the selective distribution network of the brand?

"A DELIVERY driver was held at knifepoint while robbers stole eight boxes of rare perfume worth more than £7,000 from the back of his lorry."
Read more...

October 13, 2008

Balenciaga To Revive Perfume Brand {Fragrance News}

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Cocoa-colored Balenciaga dress by Irving Penn, 1950


The fashion house of Balenciaga, which has received a new impulse under the stewardship of its creative director Nicolas Ghesquière, now feels the need to reach out to a broader audience.

For doing so they will turn to a well-tested venue, perfume, the most accessible form of luxury after makeup, Champagne, foie gras and designer Evian (in France).

The revival of the fragrance brand will take place under the aegis of Coty Prestige...

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September 29, 2008

New Official Serge Lutens Site {Fragrance News} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}


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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 festival in 1974, and last but not least a reorganization of the Lutens catalog of perfumes into three categories: flacons de table (the bell-jars); flacons beiges (the eaux de parfum); flacons noirs (the eaux de parfum haute concentration). The latter perfumes were thought by Serge Lutens himself to perform best at a higher concentration. The Collection Beige and Collection Noire in particular structure this universe as they offer the color theme for the new place...

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September 28, 2008

Boots Resurrects Girard Perfume House Nearly A Century Later {Fragrance News}

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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 brand. They have relaunched two fragrances from the 1920s as well as taken the opportunity to introduce three new scents under the same historic label. Girard & Cie, sometimes with a Mme before its name originally opened a shop in London in Regent Street...
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The new Bouquet d'Orient by Girard

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September 12, 2008

A Luxury Perfumery Is A First In Romania {Fragrance News}


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La Maison des Parfums in Bucharest - don't you love the fact that you have room to breathe and contemplate the bottles with a sense of perspective instead of being hit on the head by an army of perfumes?


Romania just saw reportedly the opening of its first luxury perfume store in history. It is located in central Bucharest in a villa and was baptized with a French name, Maison Des Parfums (The House of Perfumes).

"Luxury" in this case means very expensive and niche and is not used with the same meaning as in the West where it is commonly applied to department-store fragrances. The offerings there are exclusively "niche" as we learn that for Romanian consumers, to manage to stand out from a crowd with scent is an essential and much sought-after quality. Romanians apparently are not just content with smelling good but would rather smell interesting and unique, and price is no object too making them ideal consumers for this sector of perfumery...


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September 10, 2008

Schiaparelli Shocking Re-Launched By Haute Parfumerie {Fragrance News}

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Shocking by Schiaparelli (1937), still currently available in its modernized form at discount stores, has now been re-launched in style and in its original formulation by the Roja Dove Haute Parfumerie at Urban Retreat at Harrods,

"Composed of over 500 ingredients, the original floral has been re-launched in a limited edition Baccarat numbered crystal bottle, the shape of which is based on the curvaceous torso of Mae West."

Roja Dove is an expert in historical vintage fragrances and as announced earlier, we can also expect a careful reorchestration of yet another classic, Weil Zibeline, thanks to his endeavors.

For more information or mail order please telephone 020 7893 8797

Via Urban Retreat website

September 9, 2008

Ralph Lauren Puts A Price Tag On Super Premium Love {Fragrance News}


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Consider this recession-proof alternative: 7 Drops of Love for $1,60 at Divinafe.com, vaudoo ritual not included


Marketing Week, a UK trade journal, announced that Ralph Lauren will launch an ultra-selective perfume called Love in October 2008 at Harrods, available for the modest purchase price of £2000, or US $3515 at current conversion rate.

If at first it seems and probably does borrow the idea of amped exclusivity from Clive Christian, the man selling the most expensive fragrance in the world for $200 000, mostly for the bejeweled bottle (30 ml of the pure parfum costs only $2, 350), it adds a psychological twist to it. As one of our guest contributors, Christina Warinner, pointed out in her articles about her experience as an ex-fragrance model, women mostly seem to want to buy hope and dreams of love and a better life when buying perfume. The fragrance itself is a pretext.  Indeed it gets even more transparently interesting when we learn that the jus is aimed at young women 25 years old and more with "high spending powers"...

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For a fraction of the price, you get Romance, not Love by Ralph Lauren, which is only fair. After all, it is not exactly the same quality (of feelings).

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Article About Olivia Giacobetti: IUNX Is Back In Business {Fragrance News} {Fragrant Reading}


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To me, perfumer Olivia Giacobetti is a little bit like the feminine counterpart to perfumer Jean Claude Ellena. Both are fascinated by the element water and its smell. Both are obsessed with transparent, diaphanous textures. Both plow their paths in this perfumery direction in a very consistent, deep manner. Both not just do this kind of perfumery but enjoy less ethereal unusual gourmand accords (in fact both seem to love to eat good food).

To compare their works more closely would be extremely interesting.

The September 2008 issue of the magazine Atmosphères has a 1-page article about perfumer-composer Olivia Giacobetti, who reveals that she "cannot stand not to smell good".

In order to be able to perfume herself while respecting the constraint of olfactory neutrality she needs to have for her work, she reportedly just dabs on two drops of a diluted version of IUNX Eau Blanche on her neck so that it has time to evaporate by the time she reaches her lab...

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September 5, 2008

Choppy Waters for Stella Cadente Miss Me {Fragrance News}

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Advert by Raymond Depardon

Three years after its launch, Stella Cadente's debut fragrance Miss Me has been morally and concretely axed by Clarins. The group does not want to manage the design label's fragrance license anymore due to losses and difficulties seen with the international expansion of the product.

The founder of the brand, Stanislassia Klein, is reported to be looking for alternative strategies for the fragrance and not ready to give up just yet. (via Fashionmag.fr)

August 30, 2008

Paco Rabanne 1 Million Teaser Campaign {Fragrance News} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}

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Although the new Paco Rabanne 1 Million fragrance for men is already available at Sephora in France, the publicity campaign in the UK is only just kicking off. Yes, I know, we already showed you the TV commercial and I have a great-looking advert somewhere in my files to boot, but let's take things more slowly for a minute, shall we?

At least, this is what an early chapter of the campaign imagined for the British market reveals with the setting-up of a micro-website dedicated to making you feel great about yourself, in other words to feel like a 1-Million-Dollar man. How so? The creative focus here is on "opening the doors to virtual celebrity", to anyone willing to play the game. As you know, to attain celebrity is the new idea paradisiacal ideal of the early 21st century, an impression not disproved by the inflation of celebrity perfume launches...

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August 25, 2008

Marisa Miller to be Spokesmodel for Victoria's Secret Very Sexy Dare {Fragrance News} {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses} {Celebrity Perfume}

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Spermodel and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issues' frequent feature girl Marisa Miller has been selected to be the new Victoria's Secret Angel.

She will also be the spokesmodel for their new fragrance Very Sexy Dare when it launches on September 16, 2008 at the Victoria's Secret Herald Square store in New York City.

Via Aceshowbiz 

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