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 The Beckhams have expanded their franchise of scents with a new duo called Intimately Yours Women & Men. In keeping with the original inspiration of their fragrance venture, which is to pretend to allow the media to open a special vista onto their couple's intimacy, they reenact for us what might be a typical quickie-in-the-elevator for them, in-between two public commitments, the bane of a celebrity's life. Despite the aim of proposing a suggestive advertising, the images remains just that, lightly suggestive rather than constituting a heroic piece of anthology. If the commercial is anything to go by (see after the jump), the perfumes will smell like a cleaned-up act of sensuality, G-rated in order to reach a wide public...
Continue reading "Beckham Intimately Yours (2010) {New Fragrances} {Celebrity Perfumes} {Perfume Images & Ads}" »
 Paris-based niche perfume house Memo have released a new fragrance this fall called Manoa inspired like the rest of their collection by an exotic destination. It launches with the tag line "City of gold and opoponax." "In the heart of Inca country lies Manoa, the City of Gold. Legend has
it that El Dorado, a young man entirely covered in gold, would carry
the offerings of his people aboard a diamond-studded boat once a year....
Continue reading "Memo Manoa (2010): Inspired by an Inca Legend {New Fragrance}" »
 German designer Michael Michalsky seems to be channelling both the ad and bottle for Bang by Marc Jacobs with his upcoming release of a duo of scent called Michalsky for Women and Men. Or is it just a trend handed down from the top by invisible deities? At any rate, the Michalsky advert signed by photographer Denise Krentz is pushing the boundaries of the well-tested concept "sex sells." If I used the expression "muy caliente" for Dior Homme, I don't know what other phrase I need here to reflect the higher temperatures rising from the bodies of models Eugen Bauder and Isabel Neumair demonstrating the effects of the new fragrances...
Continue reading "Michalsky for Men & Women (2010): Getting into the Action without Further Ado {New Fragrances} {Men's Cologne}" »
 Founded in 1730 during the Georgian period, London-based perfume house Floris, the second oldest perfumery in the world after Santa Maria Novella est. 1612, is celebrating its 280th anniversary with a new Eau de Parfum simply called 280. To reinforce the symbolism of this momentous event, exactly 280 copies of the perfume are to be sold...
Continue reading "18th Century Perfume House Floris Fêtes Anniversary with 280 (2010) {New Fragrance}" »
 Only 25 happy fews will be able to own a bottle of Elle 25, a special perfume creation signed by perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, the author of Le Mâle by Jean-Paul Gaultier. The hyper exclusive scent, under the label Maison Francis Kurkdjian, was composed to fete the 25th anniversary of British Elle...
Continue reading "Francis Kurkdjian Elle 25 (2010) {New Fragrance} {Contests & Giveaways}" »
 Toiletry brand Crabtree & Evelyn is reconnecting with the tradition of English travelers going to sun themselves in Italy with the creation of a new perfume inspired by a journey to the birthplace of Florentine iris called Iris. The fragrance takes this opportunity to pay homage to the brand's namesake, English botanist John Evelyn whose motto was "Explore everything. Keep the best." Iris or orris from Florence is considered to be the finest grade of iris in the world...
Continue reading "Crabtree & Evelyn Iris (2010): Travel to Italy with a Vespa {New Fragrance} {Contests & Giveaways}" »
 Fragrance expert and perfume collector Roja Dove has partnered with British tabloid The Sun to create a fragrance inspired by the paper's favorite celebrities called Buzz. The tag line is "Entertainment bottled." "Buzz is the glamour of a film premiere, the rush of the red carpet, the fun of an after-party, the scent of bottled entertainment."
Conspicuously present behind the ad copy are repressed chuckles and giggles...
Continue reading "Roja Dove Buzz (2010): Having Fun with The Sun {New Fragrance}" »
 Makeup artist Sue Devitt, who hails from Australia, will launch a new, limited-edition fragrance entitled Golden Temple Effusion inspired by her love of travel and encounter with the religious temple architecture of Thailand. The scent, which was developed by IFF, is the olfactory interpretation of an "... early-morning mist rising from Thailand's bamboo forests,"...
Continue reading "Sue Devitt Golden Temple Effusion (2010) {New Perfume} {Beauty Notes}" »
 British designer Vivienne Westwood is paying homage to Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland this fall with a new perfume called Naughty Alice which will debut in late September 2010. We are told it " references magic and mischief." The couturière's talent had already been put to contribution on the day of the world premiere for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland when the cast decided to don on quirky Westwood designs...
Continue reading "Vivienne Westwood Naughty Alice (2010) {New Fragrance}" »
 Amouage will launch a new duo of fragrances on September 22, 2010 called Memoir Man and Memoir Woman. Both perfumes are compositions centering on the absinthe note and evoke a set of complex, dark symbolic references. The inspiration is, "...the decadent mien and genius of the 19th Century French poet, Charles Baudelaire
and the German philosophy of the doppelganger, Amouage Creative Director Christopher Chong, embarks on a deep and inquisitive voyage to unlock the unfathomable mysteries that reside within human nature. He expresses these influences by coalescing the provoking and potent ingredient of Absinth with other floral and wood accords to evoke a sombre mood,"...
Continue reading "Amouage Memoir Man & Woman (2010): The Black Swan {New Fragrances}" »
Mary J. Blige My Life by Carol's Daughter is one of the latest celebrity fragrances to appear on the market and certainly the one which was most talked about in recent memory for its record-breaking sales on HSN on July 31st 2010, the day of its exclusive on air and online introduction. According to Harlem World, During the first 6 hours, 10 000 bottles of perfume were sold each hour. 20% more customers tuned in. 10 000 people signed up for regular shipping of the fragrance. And all this was based only on Mary J. Blige's charisma, the link her fans feel with her and perhaps a phenomenon of instant, real-time mutually encouraging shopping spree and unfolding popularity. As the media commented again and again, the bestseller's takeoff was solely based on intangibles such as trust and love for the person behind the scent as no one could tell for sure what fragrance would come out of the heart-shaped flacon gilded with the words "My Life." The one note that was released in advance must have been the most laconic press preview ever: expect tuberose. Then 4 days before the HSN launch, Blige unveiled a little more saying that My Life was for women "who love tuberose, love jasmine, love fruit," she says. "It's all there." The name comes from one of the singer's albums, the one through which Blige says her fans have most connected to her. The decision to launch My Life on HSN was deliberate and bold. Next to nothing filtered prior to the official introduction and there was a strategic reason for it. According to the Associated Press,
"A year ago, we were strategizing and asking, `What could we do to
differentiate ourselves in the beauty business?'" adds HSN CEO Mindy
Grossman. "The whole experience of buying fragrance now: I don't find
it compelling. I think it's a big opportunity. ... Buying a scent is
buying a smell, but you're also buying what it means to you, what went
into it."....
Continue reading "Mary J. Blige My Life (2010): Sweet Melopia {Fragrance Review}" »
 Luxury jewelry maker Van Cleef & Arpels will launch a new masculine fragrance from September 2010 called Midnight in Paris. It will be readily available in two concentrations, in Eau de Toilette and Eau de Parfum. The idea behind the perfume was to create a luxurious leather fragrance, a sensual skin effect on which a luminous flower is said to be resting. The composition is signed by nose Domitille Bertier, with the collaboration of perfumer Olivier Polge...
Continue reading "Van Cleef & Arpels Midnight in Paris EDT & EDP (2010): Dark Lily of the Valley for Men {New Fragrance} {Men's Cologne}" »
 As previously said, Bang is the new Marc Jacobs scent for men after an 8-year lapse in masculine perfumery since Marc Jacobs for Men. Coty reportedly approached Jacobs with the idea of a new men's launch. While the fragrance is not officially a celebrity juice it was conceived in a similar spirit, in my view, by a company which specializes in this type of autobiographical fragrances. No perfumer names are given except the name of company Givaudan and that of fragrance developer Ann Gottlieb whose name is behind many commercial successes in perfumery. Added: The fragrance was actually composed by perfumers Yann Vasnier and Ellen Molner.
A dedicated Bang website has been set up.
The main olfactory idea behind Bang - and not just its starting point as I found out - relies on the effect of showcasing Marc Jacobs's personal taste in fragrance. The designer explained himself that,
"I wanted to do something that I would love," said Jacobs. "I particularly like spice notes, especially pepper, so that became a starting place."
Smelling Bang is discovering, as befits the genre of celebrity-wardrobe-fragrance (see Fergie Outspoken), a remix of favorite scents worn by Jacobs already available on the market, but condensed, blended together.
Notes: Pink, black and white peppercorns, "warm primal masculine woods", elemi resinoid, benzoin resin, vetyver, white moss, patchouli...
Continue reading "Marc Jacobs Bang (2010): Niche for the Masses {New Fragrance} {Perfume Review & Musings}" »
 The dark blue color of the sky above Deauville at dusk © The Scented Salamander Bleu de Chanel is the latest masculine to be launched by the luxury house of fashion. You can read more about the background story here, here, here and here. The composition is signed by perfumer Jacques Polge who usually works with input from perfumer Christopher Sheldrake. Polge said of Bleu, "With Bleu de Chanel, I wanted something frank, direct and pure in a
masculine scent,..I did trials with all of the raw
materials that we are constantly fine-tuning, and I searched for what
we could do and say that was different from what has already been done.
And of course, something that could strike a chord with men today. Bleu
de Chanel is reduced to its essential elements, in other words:
freshness, spiciness and dry woodiness. It's also a very sexy
fragrance!"
While the meticulous fine-tuning is perceptible in the new composition, Bleu de Chanel is not what one would call a flashily original perfume, but rather it is a subtly original work. The sum of the efforts that were put in the fragrance does translate in the end in a perfume with unique qualities, but if you were to think of originality as being like a shift in a paradigm as evident as the clap of thunder, this is not what takes place here. However, accepting the scent of Bleu de Chanel will mean accepting the idea that a marine accord is not just for sportswear but universally elegant, accept a certain dreamy, poetical quality associated with a mainstream fragrance, and accept a certain blurring of the lines in terms of gender. Notes: citrus fruits, deep blue sea accord, grapefruit, peppermint, pink pepper, nutmeg, ginger, cedar, jasmine, patchouli, frankincense, labdanum. Bleu de Chanel opens on a complex and addictive accord of seascape smells and woods, all this with a suggestion of salty booziness, energized by a wedge of lime, warmed by ambery fruits. The composition evokes a familiar outdoorsy accord of masculine perfumery only here it has been both refined and intensified and made in my view to feel utterly seductive...
Continue reading "Chanel Bleu de Chanel (2010): L'Heure Bleue by Chanel {Fragrance Review}" »
 Avon have launched a new fragrance called Rare Diamonds which features a diamond-orchid note in its heart. The tag line is " Capture the Brilliance." "Rich, romantic and positively brilliant. A brilliant jewel faceted with
sparkling plum blossom, diamond orchid and the sophisticated elegance
of rich cashmere woods,"...
Continue reading "Avon Rare Diamonds (2010) {New Fragrance}" »
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