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 Estée Lauder will launch a new travel-exclusive from February 2009 inspired by Brazil this time called Brasil Dream. Part of a successful franchise, the scent comes after Emerald Dream and Bali Dream. "Bask in the afterglow of the Brazilian sun. Let the provocative kiss of succulent Guava, Pineapple, Orange Blossoms and Neroli excite the senses. Night-blooming Jasmine and Gardenia Brazil NaturePrint® combine with Lemon, Bergamot and the creamy warmth of Sandalwood and Coconut Milk. Go where it's warm, exciting and full of life. brasil dream.
A Travel Exclusive fragrance."...
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According to the site Monsieur Guerlain (a great collector's website solely dedicated to the venerable perfume house, its news, history, literature, and collectible items -- a must-see for Guerlain aficionados), Guerlain will release a très, très exclusive fragrance in March of 2009 called Mon Précieux Nectar (My Precious Nectar).
The perfume will be available in a luxurious one-liter crystal bottle called "La Fontaine Impériale" (The Imperial Fountain), a throwback to the era of splendor of a house which became officially attached to the French imperial court under the Second Empire.
Each fragrance is priced at 6000 € or US $ 7,732 at current exchange rate...
Continue reading "Guerlain Mon Précieux Nectar (2009): Who Ever Said Perfume Was So Poverty-Deluxe? {New Fragrance}" »
 Designer & taste guru Tom Ford has released a new exclusive perfume in his Private Blend Collection called Champaca Absolute. "Conceived as a series of twelve unisex fragrances, the Tom Ford Private Blend Collection is an artisanal experience for true fragrance connoisseurs. Unearthing the most fascinating notes in a perfumer's lexicon, the Collection explores limitless possibilities."...
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 Un Matin d'Orage, the latest Annick Goutal perfume to be launched, offered a dreamy soft-focused description of their newest creation in the press release lulling us into anticipating a scent of superlative " delicate sensuality" illustrating a morning after the storm. The description of the gardenia accord in the perfume made it to feel like it was arachnean and kissed by dew drops: " Fragile and pure, it does not immediately reveal its voluptuous character." That summary, we are now able to report, skipped on a whole section of the story of that gardenia, maybe the full first part and last part of a small novel broken down into three or four parts, thereby significantly changing the meaning of the story and its scent. For one thing, the storm has not abated fully it seems and still discharges some of its ozonic furor, or at the very least, tension. Initial clues had led me to wonder how different the new scent would or could be from Songes or Gardenia Passion from the same brand. Official notes include: Sicilian lemon, shiso leaves, ginger, magnolia, jasmine sambac, champaca. Un Matin d'Orage is a completely different breed of "gardenia perfume" while still attempting to recreate the scent of the flower. It is as if the gardenia character were a main actor onstage motivating, anchoring the dramatic tensions. This is not a gardenia soliflore, nor a bouquet of white flowers with gardenia in it, but long dramatic natural moments in time and eternity captured through the olfactory lens and the vision of a primeval gardenia battling against the elements... 
Continue reading "Annick Goutal Un Matin d'Orage (2009): Elemental Gardenia {Perfume Review & Musings} {New Fragrance}" »
 Musky cherry on a bed of both candied amber (Flowerbomb) and old-school ambergris ( Zibeline) with a dash of civet, moist chewy almond and praline macaroons, a gogo, a whiff of Mitsouko's signature in the base, with tart berries and fleshy mango...Each time that I try the latest perfume to come out of the Guerlain stables, La Petite Robe Noire, whimsically drawn for the younger generations, I am compelled to experience a different less-than-easy-and-lazy nuance, going from slightly trashy to elegant. The fragrance is incredibly well engineered, has visibly been perfectly thought out to mesh diverse anticipated degrees of maturity in taste and to bridge generational sensibility gaps. The newest Guerlain has some ambition of being a one-stop fragrance. Reading the description of the notes in the initial announcement may have opened up expectations in the direction of a fragrance born to become a simplistic crude gourmand commercial hit, but LPRN is more like a three-generation-women-in-the-same-family perfume, maybe even four actually. It can be seen to pander to the tastes of ideal perfume-crowd types: the 2008 Hello Kitty crowd, the Insolence one, the Chamade one, the Mitsouko one and even the Zibeline one. La Petite Robe Noire comes across as a perfume of highly intelligent design in which significant intellectual and material resources were obviously invested. It stands as a beautiful and efficacious industrial perfume which could conceivably be exhibited at a 21st century Universal Exhibition with the following slightly naïve caption underneath " Come ye marvel at the progresses of modern perfumery."... A Madeleine Vionnet LBD, 1923. She is credited by fashion historians as the inventor of the little black dress. Drawing by Thayaht, allposters.com   A Chanel LBD from 1927 © The Met
Continue reading "Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire (2009): The First Multi-Generational Guerlain {Perfume Review & Musings}" »
 After more recently introducing Sexy Little Things Noir, Sexual Secret Woman and Man, the Michel Germain exclusives for the lingerie brand, Victoria's Secret will launch a new line of sexy perfumes called Parfums Intimes (Intimate Perfumes) inspired by the feel of four different textiles: satin, silk, cashmere and lace. Each of the perfumes created by IFF will include a main note that interprets the material of origin. The scents are named Satin Rose de Mai, Silk Mandarin Santal, Cashmere Vanilla
Jasmine, Lace Orange Flower...
Continue reading "Victoria's Secret Parfums Intimes (2009): What Kind Of Undie Are You? {New Perfumes - New Line}" »
 Bond No. 9 will launch its 34th fragrance inspired by a trendy geographic location on April 1, 2009. After concentrating exclusively on New York City neighborhoods for inspiration then branching out to some of its famous commuting grounds and then on to still further twists on the basic idea, including a Florida scent, the perfume house is going back to its roots and even to its very own neighborhood. The new scent is called Astor Place and was inspired by The Cube by sculptor Tony Rosenthal located at the juncture of Lafayette street and the Bowery...
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If you catch yourself yawning on a rainy day, all you need to do is go visit the website of Etat Libre d'Orange to get a whiff of recollection of your past antics. The new upcoming limited-edition Fat Electrician is at the core of Etat Libre d'Orange's philosophy I now realize: somehow you may feel like you have outgrown your wilder years but fortunately for you they were captured by perfumers and bottled in flacons that you can uncork at will.
Fat Electrician is an olfactory meditation on this very topic, adding meaning to the rest of the collection. It was partly and freely inspired by the archetype and character of the male prostitute John Buck played by John Voigt in Midnight Cowboy (1969), but found in other pop-culture venues as well, and is a reflection on the theme of beauty lost. Another source of inspiration is Bobby Kendall in the über kitsch gay cult movie Pink Narcissus by James Bidgood. In fact, the perfume was meant to be a central reference to that movie but for copyrights reasons, the project had to be redesigned into a more cryptic reference to a "fat electrician", i.e., the aging Bobby Kendall...
Continue reading "Etat Libre d'Orange Fat Electrician (2009): An Erotic Ode to a Plumber's Butt {New Perfume} (Updated)" »
 After the huge success of Fuel for Life, Diesel has imagined a completely different scent housed in an unconventional figurative bottle for its new men's cologne named Only The Brave. The flacon represents a clenched fist with a two-finger ring inspired by Diesel founder Renzo Rosso's holding company and charity foundation both called Only The Brave as well as his own two initial R & R tattoos on the hand. L'Oréal reportedly asked him for something a little extra personal to help construct the identity of the new perfume and these are the insignia both parties came up with. Rosso also hopes to build awareness for his charity foundation through the perfume and has promised to unveil a major charity project in a year or so. The new masculine cologne is described as being artsy and virile in spirit, going three ways as far as the fragrance personality goes: oriental, woody, and leathery... 
Continue reading "Diesel Only The Brave (2009): Fist-Bump with your Cologne {New Perfume}" »
 The new 2008 Chloé perfume is now available in the most intense form available, the pure parfum concentration...
Continue reading "Chloe 'Lisy' Handbag Spray (2009) {New Perfume}" »
 Guerlain will launch another tiare-based scent this spring, from March 2009 called Terracotta Eau Sous Le Vent...
Continue reading "Guerlain Terracotta Eau Sous Le Vent (2009) {New Fragrance - Beauty Notes}" »
 Guerlain will introduce two new perfumes in the Aqua Allegoria line this spring of 2009. They are called Tiaré-Mimosa and Cherry Blossom...
Continue reading "Guerlain Aqua Allegoria 2009 Tiare-Mimosa & Cherry Blossom {New Fragrances}" »
 Designer Tommy Hilfiger is lauching a new limited-edition Tommy duo in February of 2009 called Tommy Girl and Boy Summer Cologne 2009...
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 Diptyque will launch a collection of five new scents at the beginning of March 2009 exclusively geared towards the pleasures of bathing and body pampering...
Continue reading "Diptyque Florence, Alep, Cordoue, Alexandrie, Byzance (2009) {New Fragrances - Bath & Body}" »
 In April 2009, Vera Wang will be adding a new kind of princess persona to the Princess portfolio with a new scent called Rock Princess. It comes after Princess and Flower Princess. Lori Singer of Coty Prestige Designer Fragrances said that " For example, this princess would trade her tiara for a new guitar." To create this edgier perfume, Coty turned to perfumer Calice Becker of Givaudan who knows how to thrum the popular chord and has also created a very popular perfume for younger women (J'Adore, Tommy Girl, Love, Beyond Love, Cuir, Vent Vert (new formulation)...
Continue reading "Vera Wang Rock Princess (2009) {New Fragrance}" »
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