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 Zero Otto in collaboration with Italian Gold-leaf conceptual artist Anna Carla de Leonardis just launched a new line of perfumes in Rome. The trio of scents is meant to interpret her vision of art and creativity into fragrance. The perfumes are called after three nuances of the precious metal gold: Or Blanc (White Gold), Or Rose (Pink Gold), Or Jaune (Yellow Gold) with the tag line " From golden pictures to perfumes: art is transformed into its essence." The new perfume brand is also inspired by the spirit of the Italian medieval alchemical tradition and by exotic materials brought back by travelers in past centuries... 
Continue reading "1528 Parfums Or Blanc, Or Rose, Or Jaune (2008) {New Fragrances} & Gold-Trend Alert" »
 I am not sure I need to smell this one but it is so fun to see everyone and their neighbors getting to deh-ve-lo-peh a perfume that I couldn't resist posting about Hollyoaks by Hollyoaks, the new indispensable fragrance for soap opera fans... 
Continue reading "Everyone Has a Fragrance, Even Hollyoaks! + Am I Normal? Body Odour (2008) {New Perfume} {Celebrity Fragrance} " »
 Exciting news! Following Humiecki & Graef's interesting debut scent in 2007, Skarb (see review Part I, Part II and Tangent on Daniel Craig, Skarb & Jewish Escapees in Forests), the ambitious, arty and experimental perfume brand has launched no less than four new fragrances all at once this year. They are Askew, Geste, Multiple Rouge and Eau Radieuse. With these, Humiecki & Graef continue to explore the field of "emotional perfumery" together with "maverick perfumer" Christophe Laudamiel...
Continue reading "Humiecki & Graef Askew, Geste, Multiple Rouge, Eau Radieuse (2008) {New Fragrances}" »
 Time to get scary in the bath! Philosophy has launched a set of 3 gourmand scents for the bath & body aficionados and tricksters. If right now you are not satisfied with your Dial or Ivory soaps and want to feel the spirit of the season, here is Haunted House which comprises Pumpkin Spice Muffin, Black Licorice and Apple Caramel. All three are three-in-one products and triple as shampoo, shower gel and bubble bath...
Continue reading "Philosophy The Haunted House (2008): Halloween Bath Indulgences {New Fragrances} {Shopping Ideas}" »
 To fête the 20th anniversary of their label, team Badgley & Mischka have concocted a new juice meant to embody the dreams and glamor that their company was able to foster. The idea is simple: as Badgley puts it " One zip -- or in this case, one spritz -- and you're glamorous!". It is a lighthearted reference to the much more arduous preparation stars go through to get ready for their big day or evening on the red carpet. Called Couture, the scent was inspired by a roster of feminine celebrities, and even icons: "Teri Hatcher, Sharon Stone, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Longoria Parker and Sarah Jessica Parker"...
Continue reading "Badgley & Mischka Couture (2009): Red-Carpet Appeal {New Fragrance} {Celebrity Perfume}" »
 Korloff Paris will launch a trio of perfumes to pay homage to the 88 ct black diamond called the Korloff Noir said to be the largest black cut diamond in the world. Each perfume is numbered rather than named and meant to represent a different woman, a traditional idea also emphasized by the different colorings: Kn° I, Kn° II, Kn° III. Juding from the ad copy, the portraits of these women sound particularly stereotypical; let us hope the juices are more lively... 
Continue reading "Korloff Kn° I, II, & III (2008) {New Fragrances}" »
 Estee Lauder Cos. Aramis and Designer Fragrances will launch a new line of fragrances for young women from December 2008 titled C-Thru. It will be their first venture into the mass-market arena as the perfumes will be distributed through Wal-Mart first then Kohls,Target and other such mass retail outlets from January 2009. The collection debuts with three fragrances named after gems, Ruby, Purple Diamond, Blue Opal and are priced to appeal to the budgets of budding consumers. They will be available in two sizes, 1-oz. and 2.5-oz. eau de toilette sprays, priced at $17 and $25...
Continue reading "C-Thru Ruby, Purple Diamond, Blue Opal: Estee Lauder Cos.' New Mass-Market Line {New Perfumes}" »
 Will QVC be forgiven by the numerous Tova signature scent fans who have abundantly complained about its cheapened reformulation on this site? This is the question one can ask around the new Ambre d'Oro, Tova's fifth fragrance to date, due to launch in November 2008. Tova Ambre d'Oro (Gold Amber) is inspired by scents indigenous to Italy and is described as a "modern musky-floral" playing as is usual for Tova the sexy feminine musky card...
Continue reading "Tova Ambre d'Oro (2008) {New Perfume}" »
 Britney Spears at the MTV Awards in Los Angeles in September 2008
The embryo of a news has started circulating whereby we learn that Britney Spears will release a new scent on December 2, 2008 called Hidden Fantasy to coincide with the release of her album Circus. According to Celebrity Wonder, an Elizabeth Arden insider revealed it features notes of cherry and vanilla and that the bottle is the same as the two previous Fantasy fragrances but colored red this time.
 Last year, L'Artisan Parfumeur started a collaboration with British fashion brand Burberry working in particular with artistic director Christopher Bailey to release a series of four-seasons candles. L'Artisan have lately been engaged in a number of co-branding ventures, bringing their know-how and good reputation to similarly finely reputed brands interested in developing perfumes. The first one in the collection was Burberry Hearth introduced in the fall of 2007 which was inspired by the autumnal atmosphere of the English countryside with its scents of fall leaves and forest-y humus, which all sound very appealing this October 2008...
Continue reading "L'Artisan Parfumeur Burberry Crocus (2008) {New Fragrance - Candle}" »
 Eau d'Italie is preparing to launch a new perfume with a richly evocative name, Baume du Doge. It is inspired by the vision of a past trading and thriving Venice seen as a crossroads of civilizational and material influences, "Roots, barks, seeds, pistils, flowers, rhizomes and resins took hold of the local
taste, flanking and often blending with local produce. Thus myrrh and
frankincense, saffron and clove, cardamom and vanilla met sweet oranges, sharp
bergamots and wild fennel in a rich and warm fusion, the use of which ranged
from medicine to perfumery, often at the same time...
Continue reading "Eau d'Italie Baume du Doge (2008): The Scent of Thriving Venice {New Perfume}" »
 Teo Cabanel launched a new and fourth fragrance called Méloé Eau Fraîche. Described as an "Epicurian symphony" it offers light, green and fruity notes. It was composed by in-house perfumer Jean-François Latty. Notes are initially fresh and citrusy with bergamot, mandarin, lemon, basil. The citrus fruits linger on seguing into a floral bouquet of neroli, orange blossom, jasmine and a touch of nutmeg. Deeper base notes arise with musk, amber and a hint of woods. The tag line is " Méloé: the modern woman in you". Via Lianne Tio Parfums
 This fall Christian Lacroix is releasing a new woodsy-floral flanker to their juvenile fruity-floral C'est La Fête introduced last year. It is called C'est La Fête Patchouli.The flacon is colored in plum this time, a very fashionable tint this autumn. Citrusy top notes are followed by Clair Jasmin and heliotrope before ending on woody accords around patchouli. A 50 ml eau de parfum is priced at 43 Euros and a 100 ml one at 54 Euros. Tel: 01 63 77 00 00
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 Parlux Fragrances know about the media-attention capital Paris Hilton possesses and that's the main point, "Katz takes a wide-gauge view of the Hilton business. To him, a
fragrance launch is a process of bringing news to the Hilton customer.
Whether it results in the sales of the new fragrance or stimulates
sales of an earlier scent is of little consequence. The object is to
energize the customer base and whet its appetite."...
Continue reading "Paris Hilton Fairy Dust (2008): They Love To Hate Her {New Fragrance} {Celebrity Perfume}" »
 Prelude To Love, Invitation is the seventh fragrance under the label By Kilian and part of their collection titled L'Oeuvre Noire (The Black Masterpiece). It was composed by perfumer Calice Becker who signs here her fifth contribution to the line (See TSS's reviews of Love, Beyond Love). She is also the author of well-known fragrances marketed to the mainstream such as J'Adore by Dior and Beyond Paradise by Estée Lauder. Perfumery-wise the latest By Kilian appears to be a blend in tune with this year's interest for hesperidic compositions, even flirting with the genre of the Eau de Cologne, but almost more as a passing quote than as a main focus. Like for other By Kilian fragrances, literary references are key and shape in this case the personality of this scent inspired by an excerpt from a poem by Arthur Rimbaud, Bonne pensée du matin (good thought of the morning). The perfume is best understood "read" together with the poem as it does not seem to take it as pretext for a further flight of fancy. Instead, a sense of faithfulness and interpretative effort appears to animate the composition, even possibly dictating its duration. How could a perfume be of epic-recitation length as in a cycle of retelling that lasts for 24 hours when it wishes to recreate the essence of the atmosphere conveyed by a poem, not even the whole poem at that, but a few verses that speak to its creators?... 
Continue reading "By Kilian Prelude To Love, Invitation (2008): Citruses & Preciousness {Perfume Review} {New Fragrance}" »
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