New Perfumes Archives

Nearly three years after the death of couturier Yves Saint Laurent (see also images of his funeral), a new perfume called Saharienne will pay homage to the fashion heritage of the designer who took a colonial-era garment, probably under the...

Humiecki and Graef have announced that they will introduce a new perfume at Esxence 2011 in Milan (March 31 - April 3.) The fragrance is called Blask and is said to be "a fragrance about trust for women and men."...

 Fashion brand Emanuel Ungaro will launch a new flanker to one of the iconic fragrances of the 80s, Diva. For the Holidays 2010, a collector mother-of-pearl edition had been issued. Diva Rose is a new perfume composition whose name pays...

Histoires de Parfums are teaming up with airport duty-free shops to showcase their new collection entitled The Scent of Departure. The library is dedicated to bottling the scents of each and every imaginable city in the world that is an...

Two years ago in 2009, perfumer Patricia de Nicolaï founder and the principal nose for Nicolaï composed a limited-edition of a new fragrance called Week-End à Deauville (Weekend in Deauville.) I reviewed it here. In the spring of 2011, a...

In the summer of 2010, country star Tim McGraw released his third perfume called McGraw Silver. It came after the reported success of McGraw (2008) and Southern Blend (2009.) The message of the cologne was to play up to the...

Colorado-based independent perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz aka DSH has launched a new creation called Vert pour Madame (Green for Madam.) It was reportedly inspired by the "lush" and "radiant" green floral chypre compositions popular in the late 1970s and early...

 With its latest release Shams meaning "Sun" in Arabic, Parisian niche perfumery Memo seems to be stressing the point that oud or agarwood is not to be viewed anymore as a material signalling an effort at originality but rather as...

Beloved for its delicate smell and winter-to-spring transition symbolicism, mimosa which once was hard to come by in perfumery, has become more often seen or rather smelled since Guerlain Champs-Elysées launched in 1996. Still, it is not one of the...

 Actress Reese Witherspoon is following up this month on the successful launch of her debut fragrance In Bloom by Avon (2009) with a more multi-faceted project called Expressions. The new trio of perfumes is meant to capture different nuances of...

Eau d'Italie Hotel Le Sirenuse will launch their 8th fragrance this spring called Jardin du Poète (The Garden of the Poet.) It was composed by perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour in collaboration with brand owners Marina Sersale and Sebastian Alvarez and is...

 The house of Guerlain have announced that their second Aqua Allegoria this year will be a white rose composition. Together with the jasmine perfume Jasminora, the brand is preparing to introduce Rosa Blanca......

Armani has launched a limited-edition flanker to Acqua di Gio for Men called the Acqua for Life Edition. It was inspired by designer Giorgio Armani's love for the island of Pantelleria where he regularly vacations. Proceeds of the sales in...

 In 2009, the Ritz Hotel in Paris launched a her-and-him duo of fragrances called Ritz Classic pour Madame and Ritz Classic pour Monsieur. The compositions are signed by perfumer Jean Laporte. Both scents are said to be fresh perfumes rather...