Serenading the Carnation at Ladurée's - Un Parfum d'Oeillet chez Ladurée (2012) {New Home Fragrance}
Ladurée Beauté, the beauty arm of the temple of delights that is pastry-maker Ladurée, have launched a new fragrance for the home centering on the carnation flower. It's called Sérénade and is available both indecorative candle form and in a home spray atomizer...
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With Valentine's day right around the corner, roses, especially red ones, seem to exert a magnetic pull on one's psyche. It is like the three drops of ruby red blood which suddenly fell onto the white snow in a medieval tale whose title I can't remember right now but whose imagery still lingers in my mind. Red on white is a fascinating combination -- I also remember admiring a white sari with a simple red border in a music concert in New Delhi - and red is for passion of course -- sources of pigmented and human warmth.
Following in the footsteps of team mate 
Roget et Gallet are turning towards the tradition of wellness perfumes more clearly in the year of their 150th anniversary with the new unisex fragrance Eau des Bienfaits. The scent was created by perfumer Mathieu Nardin of Robertet.
Swiss watch - and jewelry-maker Charriol are launching a new women's Eau de Toilette this month called Show-Off. It was co-created by perfumers Michel Almairac and Sidonie Lancesseur of Robertet who worked previously in tandem on other creations.
Avon just launched a new duo of fragrances right on time for Valentine's Day 2012 called Infinite Moment for Her and Infinite Moment for Him.
Pacifica have organized a Valentine's Day Sweepstakes as well as a partnership with Ocean Futures Society founded by Jean-Michel Cousteau. Their latest fragrance, Island Vanilla is showcased within that venue. 1% of all their sales in the products range will be donated to OFS which works towards preserving the cleanliness and eco-balance of our oceans.
Guerlain Est. 1828 say that they waited until 2012 to create a perfume using the myrrh material for the first time ever in any one of their fragrances. Myrrhe et Délires, to be exclusively released in March 2012 in the Guerlain boutiques, now centers on the notoriously difficult - yet particularly beguiling - raw material to tame in perfumery. Thierry Wasser, the in-house perfumer, felt shocked by its beauty when he visited Somalia and tasted it, really tasted it to have a better perception of it, rather than just smelled it,
Banana Republic will launch Wildbloom Vert this month. They call it "the energetic complement to Wildbloom" which itself was introduced in 2011. What is somewhat unusual is that the brand puts the accent on the personal love that perfumer Ilias Ermenidis of Firmenich has for the genre of green fragrances, saying that the nose "has a passion for lively green fragrances," Taking the subjectivity of a perfumer into account is not supposed to be a priority for a fashion apparel brand...
Beauty brand Carita, like Monteil Paris, are launching a perfume this year. The tag line is "Essence of Haute Beauté." Carita Eau de Parfum was composed by perfumer Alberto Morillas of Firmenich. The nose said that,
Monteil Paris, the successor brand to Germaine Monteil Cosmetiques Corp. created in 1936 by fashion designer and cosmetics entrepreneur Germaine Monteil, is making a comeback to the perfume world with Le Nouveau Parfum; the beauty brand is now part of Wilde Cosmetics GmbH. Germaine Monteil is probably best remembered today for her perfumes Bakir, Galore and Royal Secret now produced by Five Stars co....
Last year, Bsq Natural Couture, formerly known as 
