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January 19, 2012



Cire Trudon Calabre Candle (2011) {New Perfume} {Home Fragrance}

cire_trudon_calabre.jpgLast fall, Vieille-France candle maker Cire Trudon Est. 1643, launched a new limited-edition scent in their candle collection called Calabre.

"On the coasts of Calabria, the aromas of licorice fill the air of the shores and sail towards Africa. Mingling, thanks to the wind, with the rich scents of myrrh and incense, they blow the lines of a Mediterranean canticle."...

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January 2, 2012

Diptyque Rosa Mundi Candle & Eau Rose (2012) {New Fragrances + Home Fragrance}

rosa_mundi_candle_diptyque_2.jpgDiptyque is inaugurating a new collection called Eaux Florales, the parallel library to the Eaux Hespéridées, with the launch of a limited-edition scented candle called Rosa Mundi in January 2012. This will be followed by an Eau de Toilette, Eau Rose, in the spring of 2012. For now, the brand wishes to concentrate on the introduction of the candle although Eau Rose is already available in New York City....

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February 21, 2011

Parfums de Nicolaï Bal à Venise (2011) {New Perfume} {Home Fragrance}

bal-venise-nicolai_A.jpgParfums de Nicolaï have introduced a new home fragrance right on time to celebrate the 2011 Venice Carnival. It is called Bal à Venise.

"An atmosphere of celebration and laughter is evoked with this home fragrance, a farandole of violet, rose and iris costumed with fresh, drifting watery notes, a taste of spring, delicate and subtle."...

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August 9, 2010

Fornasetti Profumi per la Casa (2010) {New Perfume} {Home Fragrance}


fornasetti-candle.jpgA new line of scented home fragrance will be launched in September 2010 simply called Fornasetti Profumi per la Casa which are inspired by Italian designer Fornasetti's work on and obsession with singer Lina Cavalieri. Elements of her iconic face will appear on the ceramic containers for the candles, like her mouth but of course also her nose....

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January 8, 2010

Papier d'Armenie La Rose (2009) {New Perfume} {Home Fragrance} {Rose Notebook}


papier-darmenie-la-rose.jpgPapier d'Arménie (Paper from Armenia) is a brand established in 1885 famous for its salubrious booklets of papers that diffuse a sanitizing scent when they burn. They smell exquisitely of benzoin from Laos. After offering a modern adaptation of their classic in 2006 which was revisited by perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, the brand launched a new line called La Rose in November 2009...

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November 18, 2009

Glade Limited-Edition Holidays Candles: Pomegranate & Cranberries, Fresh Pine & Cedar {Home Fragrance Reviews}

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The Glade folks sent me a couple of their new candles, namely Pomegranate & Cranberries, Fresh Pine & Cedar and Jasmine & Wild Orchid from The Fragrance Collection. I haven't tried the latter yet but thought better to plan ahead for the Holidays. So, I wanted to let you know that I think that especially Pomegranate & Cranberries is a great choice for an affordable, festive holiday-feeling candle and not just because it is colored red. Fresh Pine & Cedar, which I thought at first would be wafting more of the note of Christmas turned out to be less atmospheric than Pomegranate & Cranberries.

The first one is very good, even great - I would offer it to friends and family or recommend it -  the other one, good - I would smell it and find it pleasant but would not buy it myself or recommend it over other candles necessarily and I will explain why...

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November 9, 2008

Acqua Di Parma Red, Yellow, Black & White Candles {Home Fragrance} {New Perfumes}

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Italian niche brand Acqua Di Parma has released a new collection of scented candles for the home titled Design and Cube that offers a wonderfully bold, colorful and modernist décor appeal. Good to behold and hopefully good to smell too.

Yellow is scented with the classic perfume of the house, Colonia (see also Colonia Intensa for Men; Edizione Murano). Red rests on a spicy accord. Black is dedicated to amber. The Cube sub-set also comprises White, a clove-scented candle.

The Design ones are available in two different sizes. The big ones burn for 60 hours and the small ones for 30.

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October 7, 2008

L'Artisan Parfumeur Burberry Crocus (2008) {New Fragrance - Candle}

Thumbnail image for Burberry-crocus-Lartisan1.JPGLast year, L'Artisan Parfumeur started a collaboration with British fashion brand Burberry working in particular with artistic director Christopher Bailey to release a series of four-seasons candles. L'Artisan have lately been engaged in a number of co-branding ventures, bringing their know-how and good reputation to similarly finely reputed brands interested in developing perfumes.

The first one in the collection was Burberry Hearth introduced in the fall of 2007 which was inspired by the autumnal atmosphere of the English countryside with its scents of fall leaves and forest-y humus, which all sound very appealing this October 2008...

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September 22, 2008

Pierre Frey Bougie Marie-Antoinette (2006) {Home Fragrance}


Pierre-Frey-Bougie-Marie-Antoinette copy.jpgParisian home textile designer Pierre Frey has a scented candle or bougie parfumée paying homage to the ex-queen of France Marie-Antoinette. It is simply named after her.

As already indicated earlier, there is a veritable Marie-Antoinette fashion going on in France, fueled in part also by the popular pastel-colored, gourmand movie by Sofia Coppola (2006). The candle is said to be centered on "an accord of rice powder softly evoking with nostalgia the French perfumery of yore"...

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March 9, 2008

L'Artisan Parfumeur Jatamansi Candle & Bath & Shower Gel (2008) {Home Fragrance} {Bath & Body} {Green Products}

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L'Artisan Parfumeur will release in May of 2008 two new products in its 100 % natural and organic Jatamansi (Himalayan Nard) line bearing the Ecocert and Cosmébio labels and which in fact exceed those standards according to the press release. They are a Scented Candle and a Bath and Shower Gel.....

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