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February 8, 2010

Lanvin Jeanne (2008) and Jeanne La Rose (2010): Part 1 - The Scent of High Fashion, Suavissime Soap and Back {Perfume Reviews} {New Fragrance}


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Jeanne can offer a beautiful, simple connotation as a first name. It is the feminine pendant of "Jean" which like Pierre and Paul are de facto household given names in (Christian) Europe. Jeanne is the name of historical French heroine, Jeanne d'Arc, and evokes for those who have seen the masterpiece, the beautiful cinematography of Dreyer's Protestant-looking 1927 imagery about the saint. It is also the first name in translation of Jane Austen. It is furthermore, to go back to more immediate connections, the first name of couturière Jeanne Lanvin after which the perfume is named and to whom it pays homage in an updated yet faithful mode...

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February 4, 2010

Laura Tonatto Notte a Taif (2010) {New Perfume} E Duse is Back & New e-Commerce {Fragrance News}


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It is with pleasure that I am able to report that independent Italian perfumer Laura Tonatto has now a new website which functions as an international e-commerce. It was until recently difficult to come by her fragrances unless you were in Rome or Turin.

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One of Tonatto's specializations which is conducted through her workshop Naso e Parnaso is historical interpretative work in compositions inspired by famous historical figures or even works of art. In 2005, for example, she created a perfume based on the painting The Lute Player by Caravaggio for the Hermitage Museum...


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Chanel Chance Eau Tendre (2010) {New Perfume}


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The new perfume is described as a fruity and floral interpretation of Chance Eau de Parfum...

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February 3, 2010

Lancome Tresor in Love (2010) {New Perfume}



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Lancôme will release a new perfume called Trésor in Love at the end of March 2010 which is characterized as a free interpretative exercise on the original Trésor launched in 1990 and created by Sophia Grojsman. It was a landmark perfume both in terms of composition and reception.

The new jus was composed by perfumers Dominique Ropion and Véronique Nyberg...

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Les Parfums de Rosine Secrets de Rose (2010): Dinner with Chamade, with Notes on Patrimonial Perfumes {Perfume Review} {Rose Notebook}


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Secrets de Rose (Rose Secrets) is the 16th rose composition by Les Parfums de Rosine which specialize in sculpturing the different facets and interpretations of the queen of flowers. It was created in 2009 based on particular qualities of natural rose and labdanum ingredients and launched this January-February 2010. This time, one is offered a dark-rose interpretation, the scent of "a rose dressed in black,' which was made to feel more shadowy thanks to notes of prune, licorice, amber resin and labdanum while being spiced up with saffron, ylang and cumin.

 

It is also, as it turns out, what l would like to term an affective patrimonial perfume, a composition destined to noses who can appreciate the continuities of the living history of perfume, this olfactory historiography found throughout contemporary compositions rather than in the pages of history books...


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February 2, 2010

Celine Dion Simply Chic (2010) {New Perfume} {Celebrity Fragrances}


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Celine Dion, who strikes you as someone who could appeal to very different constituencies for different reasons - there is a counter-cultural streak in her despite her classic voice-based diva popularity (unconventional beauty, much older husband-mentor, unusual stage-kid past...) - proposes to draw a consensus on style with her new perfume called Simply Chic...

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January 31, 2010

Hermes Voyage d'Hermes (2010) {New Perfume}


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Hermès will launch a new major perfume for them in April 2010 called Voyage d'Hermès. The scent is part of the group of perfumes called "parfums-romans" (perfume-novels) dedicated to retelling the story of Hermès's patrimony.

In a subtle evolution and interesting shift of policy of the house which had been giving extended free rein to their in-house perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena in the last year or so, they submitted to him this time a minimal one-word brief. As they put it, it is a carte blanche with a name on it...

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January 30, 2010

Donna Karan Pure DKNY (2010) {New Perfume}



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From February 2010, Donna Karan will launch a new women's scent called Pure DKNY named after one of their clothing lines but which most of all wants to affirm a certain way of life. The tag line is "Go Pure." A promotional website is already available in Spanish which invites online viewers to water a green plant before being able to access the video depicting the universe of Pure DKNY. It resembles a romantic family photo album portraying a happy couple in love and their child all bathed in a pure white light in an indefinite ethereal world set in a loft-apartment with glimpses of early spring and New York City....

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Chloe Eau de Fleurs Capucine, Neroli, Lavande (2010) {New Perfumes}



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Chloé have launched a trio of perfumes that have the looks and smells of sophisticated splash colognes. They are called Eau de Fleurs Capucine (nasturtium), Lavande (lavender) and Néroli. Capucine is a representative of the green family, Lavande seems to smell like a fresh and light oriental and Néroli is the closest to a classic variation on Eau de Cologne...

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January 29, 2010

Salvador Dali Little Kiss Me (2010) {New Perfume}


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Parfums Salvador Dali will launch a new fragrance this spring for youngins and young-spirited women alike in April of 2010 called Little Kiss Me....

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