
I foresee that in January 2010, I will need to add fragrances to the site that were launched in 2009 and that I would like to keep track of. I could add them to the database or follow the blog format and put them on the home page. Hope the latter option is not a hindrance for a little while.
I posted last year about
several Des Filles à la Vanille 2009
launches. I just realized they had been working to their death last year
and introduced some 25-30 fragrances or so in between.
It is difficult to date their perfumes because the brand does not feel comfortable with the idea of talking about "
nouveautés"
or new launches, as I found out. They prefer to think in terms of what they have in
stock in their boutiques of clothing at any given time. Part of the reason for this attitude
might be that the fragrances by Des Filles à la Vanille are able to
multiply thanks to small increments of change and also thanks to the key notion of
the "perfume twist." You can thus find sub-libraries of musks or
patchoulis or vanillas or ambers that play on variations.
Let's put some order in that heap of perfume bottles.
There is a sub-collection called Princesse Hippie which includes a patchouli, amber, musk and vanilla scents. They are called Ambre Princesse Hippie or Vanille Princesse Hippie...

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