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 CB I Hate Perfume, a Brooklyn-based perfume house, has introduced three new scents: November, Gingerbread, a December-only limited edition that appears annually and Walking in the Air, a home fragrance which recreates the pure scent of snow soon to be turned into an absolute by the perfumer who started wearing it himself. About November, a composition mingling the typical smells of an American autumn, from pumpkin pie to hickory woods to fallen leaves to golden apples, its creator Christopher Brosius writes in his blog, "I
think my November perfume is finished. I made a few small adjustments
to it this afternoon so will know tomorrow for certain. It wound up
being a much more complex perfume than I had intended but that is often
the way. The scent is also rather unusual for me - it's sweet. Still,
it's a very delicate sweetness that speaks more of autumn leaves,
hickory smoke, golden apples and the spices of a pumpkin pie than
anything heavy or cloying. I can't really make a cloying perfume... As
i said, November is a very complex scent. It's main note is Pumpkin
Pie blended with the scents of the autumn woods, fallen leaves,
bonfires and delicious apples - all of these scents are quite complex
in themselves. November has a lovely soft lush quality on the skin
which to my surprise I greatly enjoy - normally I myself am drawn to
greener things. But since I wear every scent I make while I'm working
on it, I've been wearing a lot of November lately and am very pleased
with its effect."...
Continue reading "CB I Hate Perfume November, Gingerbread, Walking in the Air (2009): Smells of Fall & Winter {New Perfumes} - Mango, Outside {Hasty-Reviews}" »
 Bond No. 9 will launch a new perfume inspired by a New York City borough in March 2009 called Brooklyn. The scent was composed by perfumer Laurent Le Guernec of IFF (Bond No. 9 Chelsea Flowers, Sarah Jessica Parker Lovely, Avon Rouge, Michael Kors Michael...) "Brooklyn, the Eau de Parfum,
Captures the Vibe of the Edgy New Brooklyn--
Home to Artists, Bloggers, & Creative Types."
The view of Brooklyn from the Bond No. 9 perfume house is that,
"Brooklyn is changing. New York's legendary city within a city, home to a century or more of strivers, dreamers, and Nobel laureates, is reinventing itself, neighborhood by neighborhood, as an edgy metropolis. Sure, for a while there Brooklyn was a necessary second choice for the real estate-challenged Millennials seeking affordable rents and more square footage than formidable Manhattan could offer. But now-- a whole new story. Today's Brooklyn is preferable to a new generation of artistic émigrés. This is where the artists and musicians choose to move. It's home to graffiti-ists, gaffers, and key grips, to web designers and aspiring editors. This is where fashion stylists live. New York-bound hip-and-cool Seattle-ites prefer to move to Brooklyn; smart Stockholmers book their hotel rooms here."
So how does the fragrance of Brooklyn smell like?...
Continue reading "Bond No.9 Brooklyn (2009): For Creative Types {New Fragrance}" »
 Elizabeth Arden will introduce a new women's perfume in March 2009 called Pretty. Pretty illustrates a pink floral theme and "...celebrates the
ritual of getting ready to go out," according to a spokesperson of
Elizabeth Arden's
"It represents the last touch, that final, must-have accessory,"...
Continue reading "Elizabeth Arden Pretty (2009): Pretty in Pink Please {New Perfume}" »
 Tova Beverly Hills has released a new limited-edition variation of their Signature perfume called Tova Signature Reserve to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the brand. The more upscale scent is advertised as being the same as the original except that the concentration of oils is higher, 34%, which would qualify it as an extrait although it is billed as an eau de parfum. The perfume has reportedly undergone an exceptional maturing process of 9 months instead of the usual 3. Tova Borgnine likens it to the maturing process of cognac or alternatively to that of the gestational period...
Continue reading "Tova Signature Reserve Eau de Parfum (2008): Aged 9 Months {New Perfume - Limited Edition}" »
 Avon will launch a new celebrity fragrance for women in April 2009 called Spotlight (because nowadays everyone wants to be in the spotlight as Andy Warhol predicted, but without the "want-to" part which is very internet, very 21st century). Its spokesmodel is actress Courteney Cox. The scent, described as a fresh oriental, was created by perfumer Jean-Marc Chaillan of IFF and
"...is composed of top notes of shining silver, mandarin and Italian
bergamot; middle notes of white freesia, tuberose absolute, and mimosa,
and bottom notes of cashmere sandalwood, vetiver and white vanilla
musk. It will retail for $22.50 for 1.7 oz."... 
Continue reading "Avon Spotlight Fronted by Courteney Cox (2009) {New Perfume}" »
 In the 21st century what will probably take place more and more and has already started to concretize is the olfactory design of public and private spaces. The movement has to do with the realization that scents are not just pleasant additions to your surroundings but that they contribute in meaningful ways to anchoring further a place for its inhabitants and adding an invisible yet soon-to-be indispensable dimension to the architectures in which we live. If the future will be much more sophisticated, we can imagine, the present has started to look like that future, for example, under the guise of olfactory branding. Hotel Le Bristol Paris has asked perfumer Jean-Michel Duriez, the in-house nose for Patou and now Rochas to create scent interpretations of the place. After undergoing a visual renovation in 2004, Le Bristol thought it was time to offer themselves and their clientele a new olfactory identity...  Le Bristol
Continue reading "Le Bristol Paris in Scented Form (2008) {New Perfume}" »
 Bain de Nuit (Night Bath) is a French women's fashion brand specializing in glitzy evening wear (long and short, including pant suits) as well as more recently, wedding gowns. The dream of Chantal Temam its founder who created the label in 1998 was to propose an haute-couture feel to her clients at ready-wear prices. The glamor of the label is expressed through the use of luxurious
materials such as silk and satin further glamed-up by costume pearl,
rhinestone, and stone embroideries, her trademark signature embellishments. Her creations are ultre-feminine, vaporous, sleek, with a Las Vegas and Dallas-series feel to them, in other words from my point of view, a big dollop of American sense of show. It is no happenstance therefore if many celebrities queue up to dress at Bain de Nuit, a brand that makes me think of Ed Hardy for its similar reliance on celebrity culture and the development of a sense of style that does not shy away from the limelight, and in fact craves it. According to the press release, the likes of Karen Cheryl, Victoria Abril, Ophélie Winter, Olivia Ruiz love to slip on a Bain-de-Nuit number...
Continue reading "Bain de Nuit Eau de Parfum (2008) {New Perfume}" »
 Masik Collegiate Fragrances founded by the Masich family in 2007 and headed by president and CEO Katie Masich who is visibly passionate about her brainchild is a company specializing in perfumes inspired by colleges and universities. From the descriptions, the perfumes sound as if above-average attention was devoted to them, rather than just being commercial pretexts. Their latest composition is inspired by Pennsylvania State University, its colors blue and white and some of the smells (all nice ones) that linger or are supposed to linger in the air around the campus. "Harrisburg-based Masik Collegiate Fragrances developed the scent and
says the Penn State perfume exudes vanilla, lilac, rose and white
patchouli. The company says the cologne smells of blue cypress and
cracked pepper vapor."...
Continue reading "Penn State, North Carolina U The Fragrances by Masik (2008) {New Perfume}" »
 Described by Le Labo co-founder Fabrice Penot as a "... white ball of musk with a black, dirty center that would be the symbol of the city (L.A.)" the new Musc 25, the latest city-exclusive by the brand has finally been unveiled. The white/black contrast is supposed to evoke the paradox of the existence of sin in the city of angels.This vision was partly inspired by the song Under The Bridge by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Other notes include ambergris, patchouli, rose, amber and vetiver. A synthetic recreation of a note of human semen was added to illustrate the idea of "dirty", an idea that comes on the tail of Le Sperme Magnifique by Etat Libre d'Orange also euphemistically and officially called Sécrétions Magnifiques (however the smell of it is not euphemistic)...
Continue reading "Le Labo Musc 25 (2008): New L.A. Exclusive {New Perfume}" »
 Léonard has introduced a new men's cologne called Léonard Homme. Lately, and since the successes of Dior Homme (2005) and Yves Saint Laurent L'Homme (2006), "homme" has become the best name in town for a men's scent. See also Guerlain HommeIt's the new thing, the new in thing to do Before you would see a "pour homme" much more typically, "for men". Now it's simply and bluntly put, Homme, and it sounds like hombre! The more testosterone you put in the name of a perfume, the more flowers you can cram into the scent That's the new trick Next you will see a cologne called Sideburns smelling of muguet The new Léonard scent offers this interesting motto: THE MAN BEHIND THE FLOWERS (not my capitals)...
Continue reading "Leonard Homme (2008) {New Perfume} {Men's Cologne}" »
 When I read that Alberto Morillas had said about the new Bulgari Omnia Green Jade, " I thought of its colours, green with white shadows, of the energy of
this millenary gemstone, symbol of the good, the beautiful and the
precious," I finally thought it might be interesting I always find Alberto Morillas interesting, but there is interesting and Interesting I love green jade that offers a milky quality It reminds me of hunting for the right and rare shades of jade in China Being told that brown jade is for old ladies It is such a beautiful color that you want to polish it and polish it again and again Hoping to express some of its goodness and get to the core of it, perhaps ameliorate it...
Continue reading "Bulgari Omnia Green Jade (2008): Green with White Shadows {New Perfume}" »
 Following the launch in 2007 of a modern Vivara reinterpreting the original Vivara of 1965 and after a collector Vivara Silver Edition this fall of 2008 (shown below) that simply means to bring pleasure to perfumistas who appreciate perfume as object - and yet another psychedelic paper-weight designed by Helle Damkjaer in particular - Pucci has announced the introduction of a new trio of Vivara-inspired fragrances in March of 2009 called Sole 149, Acqua 330, Sabbia 167, part of the first installment of a collection named Vivara Variazioni... 
Continue reading "Emilio Pucci Vivara Variazioni Sole 149, Acqua 330, Sabbia 167 (2009) {New Perfumes}" »
 While organic perfumery is seen as riding the wave of the future, at the very least in terms of consumers' increasing demand, it arguably still remains both a relatively unknown and under-developed area of fragrance creation. Kibio, a beauty and perfume brand founded by Pierre Cabane and Laurent Potier just introduced Kibio Eau de Parfum touted as the first complex formulation for a perfume of its kind. The idea was to follow a classic pyramid structure, even combining two families of perfumes, the oriental and chypré one, while paying rigorous attention to the sourcing of organic materials...
Continue reading "Kibio Eau de Parfum (2008): The First 100 % Organic Oriental-Chypre {New Perfume}" »
 L'Etre Aimé Homme
Niche perfumery Divine hailing from Brittany founded by Yvon Mouchel in 1986 has just released the seventh chapter in its story, a feminine and masculine duo or rather a " double composition" named L'Être Aimé Femme and L' Être Aimé Homme (The Beloved Woman and Man)...
Continue reading "Divine L'Etre Aime Homme, L'Etre Aime Femme (2008) {New Perfumes}" »
 Last year, we announced the debut of Social Creatures a new brand of perfumes with a conceptual outlook, artisan sensitivity, and professing the manifest belief that perfume is imbricated within the fabric of society and history. They also believe in intuition, "Trust your intuition: usually your first subconscious judgment about a new situation is based on how it smells." The latest news are that they have finally launched the pre-announced Frankfurt Kitchen, a feminine fragrance "... inspired by the progressist kitchen designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky in 1926," It has taken them a total of 3 years to develop the composition and while it had been scheduled for release in December 2007, it has been introduced only this month... The 30 ml EDP and the 10 and 15 ml travel sizes
Continue reading "Social Creatures Frankfurt Kitchen for Women (2008) {New Perfume} {Fragrance News} " »
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