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Italian designer Laura Biagiotti, who is well-known in the perfume world for some distinctive fragrances such as Venezia (discontinued alas) and Roma, launched a new feminine composition called Donna in February of 2008 . The scent is said to be inspired by the spirit of both ancient and modern Rome seemingly inscribing itself in the "Beautiful Italy" current of inspiration and trend. Among less common combinations of notes, it features Stephanotis in the heart and a cereal accord in the base......
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Kenzo will introduce a new 2008 summer limited edition of its 2000 classic FlowerByKenzo called FlowerByKenzo Eau d'Eté Parfumée - Summer Fragrance 2008. The new version was created by Alberto Morillas of Firmenich, the perfumer-composer behind the original powdery floral fragrance....
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Sean John is releasing a new limited Collector's Edition of a duo of fragrances in April of 2008 called Unforgivable Woman Black and Unforgivable Black. The news have not just to do with the packaging which is now all lacquered black but with the more luxurious renditions of the perfumes themselves for which "...only the most premium and luxurious ingredients were used..." The new fragrances are "extracted and re-created from the original Unforgivable" using top grade quality ingredients labeled "Orpur". As stated by the press officer, "Orpur ingredients are naturally grown and harvested to the strictest standards, causing the fragrance to have a concentrated and intense scent.".......
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Dirty English has been identified by Nash-Taylor of Juicy Couture as a cross between the influences of her own Anglomania (she is married to John Taylor of Duran Duran), Skaist-Levys’ “CZ Guest Style”, a dash of punk (Sex Pistols) while its style (the bottle's?) borrows from their flagship store located on Rodeo Drive. She also promised that, "Any self-respecting bad boy will want to wear it." (Women’s Wear Daily) The name of the perfume is immediately catchy and if we were to start drawing a list of The Best of 2008, it would have to be nominated under the category "Best Fragrance Name". It actually makes you want to create the category. The first whiff from the bottle promises the scent to be less than pale. It is sweeter and more heavily resinous than average.
The perfume turns out to be a noteworthy twist on a traditional woody-leathery-tobacco scent for men with fresh fougere accents. It demonstrates how you can play with the idea of excess without being excessive in reality. Its most traditional facet suggests the suave after-shave of a gentleman frequenting the requisite club with all the necessary trappings of leather furniture, books and polished woods with beeswax that one would expect. This is deemed an ideal by many and it is a comfortable one. Its more adventurous facet is a humorous and sensual play on the notion of human foulness and extreme bodily exhalations as it plays with the notion of dirtiness but ultimately and paradoxically in a clean and allusive way. This Englishman is indeed a bit dirty and it is not just a play on words but really a play on olfactory sensations......
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Laura Mercier has introduced two new fragrances called Neroli and Violette Eau Gourmande. Neroli is an Eau de Parfum part of their slightly more upscale line of scents while Violette is a lighter Eau de Toilette and belongs to the brand's collection of gourmand perfumes....
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One of the most famous and venerable perfumes in the world, 4711 Cologne, is now getting a new flanker called 4711 Ice Cool Cologne. The icy minty fresh scent (the original cologne is often kept in refrigerators) has top notes of Bergamot, violet, pineapple, and Privet. Heart notes are peppermint, lily of the valley, peach, and plum. Base notes are white musk, cedar wood, and amber. There have been "Ice" versions in the past, including one specifically destined to women. It will be available from March 2008, the 30 ml spray for 9, 50 € and the 100 ml splash for 17. 50 €. (via Cosmoty.de)
 Yves Saint Laurent not content with offering a stylish limited edition of L'Homme designed by Jean Nouvel is issuing its yearly summer version of its best-seller called L'Homme Eau d'Eté......
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First, the news. Estee Lauder, which is one of the best companies at doing both business and keeping in mind the public good, have decided to continue producing a replacement for the beloved - no strike that - the wildly popular Tom Ford Azurée Soleil. As the Tom Ford contract with Estee Lauder expired recently, this was the best move to undertake for legions of fans of the summery oil and skinscent. The new version is called Bronze Goddess after a pre-existing makeup line of the brand. How does it compare to the previous two summer Tom Ford editions? Very well....
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Photo © Communication Serge Lutens Serge Lutens possesses this uncanny ability of turning a priori the most superficial, surface objects and sensations into an oniric walk taken down the maze of a garden as if in a daydream. With Five O’ Clock Au Gingembre composed in collaboration with perfumer Christopher Sheldrake, a tea party in an English manor opens the way to the muffled, velvety footsteps of a discovery walk down the dozens of labyrinthine corridors of a mansion built with hundreds of forgotten rooms. At the same time the contained intensity of the perfume, which unfurls as if following the line of a fall suggests a drop in a well filled with dark light. The perfume is thus complex in the sense of creating both a horizontal line of imagery, by minutely shifting the sensations, and a vertical one by creating an impression of dynamic deepening. Five O'Clock is one of the most difficult perfumes I have had to write about due to the level of detail found in it and its structuring which is poorly rendered by a chronological account. I am tempted to say that it is more constructed like a faceted gem, but it is not quite that either. It is more like a combination of both structures, the linear one and the prismatic one. Or another way to put it would be to say that it is the most elusive of the Lutens despite its deceptive homey title...
Photo © Communication Serge Lutens
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After publishing a previous post on the new Jean Paul Gaultier Monsieur Eau du Matin and beauty care line, here is more information regarding them. The ad copy is fun, saying, "Forty-something, high-flying executive, fashion-conscious, sporty, eco-friendly; metro-sexual, a bighearted softy or a seducer…every man is different and expresses his own way of being a “Monsieur”."
The Eau du Matin is described as an invigorating fragrance which can be used in friction as well as simply sprayed on...
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Paris-based niche perfume house Maître Parfumeur et Gantier will release a new perfume in April of 2008 titled Bois de Turquie. It is inspired by travels within Turkey of in-house perfumer Jean-Paul Millet Lage and the crossroad of Oriental and Western influences that this country is. Sensations and images gathered from the Bosphorus, the turquoise blue Iznik tiles, the spices of Eminönü market, the Turkisk landscape and more mingle. It is also notably the first unisex perfume created by the house founded in 1989.....
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Cruel Gardenia is the latest installment in the Art et Matière collection by Guerlain, a line devoted to more creative perfume creations offering culturally speaking a niche, i.e. arty flavor and centering in principle on a reflection on raw materials. The fragrance was created by perfumer Randa Hammami in collaboration with artistic director Sylvaine Delacourte and is a limited edition. The press release is helpful in explicitly stating from the outset the existence of a stylistic variation that can be felt upon discovering the scent and is a bit surprising. Cruel Gardenia offers a relatively spare signature in terms of classic Guerlain standards. If you expected a rich exuberant perfume, you would be let down for a moment before being able to adjust your perception to a perfume that is simpler and as close to a modern simplistic skin perfume as Guerlain could try to come up with while keeping its gilded touch evoking the lush drawing-rooms of the Second Empire, but more as in a watermark effect in this case....
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The Celine Dion Parfums franchise developed by Coty the specialist developer of celebrity fragrances is enriching itself with a new perfume this March called Sensational. Since 2003 it is the 8th perfume in a portfolio that comprises already Belong, Celine Dion, Notes, Paris Nights, Un Printemps à Paris, Always Belong, Enchanting and has earned revenues of $ 500 millions. (If there are any others, please comment.) Coty sees this launch as a major one for the singer coinciding with her reactivating her touring career as she goes on a world-wide tour titled Taking Chances. The talent of perfumer Maurice Roucel of Symrise has been enlisted to create a more sparkling composition.....
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 Cherry blossom viewing or Hanami is a delightful ancestral practice in Japan that extols the virtues of aesthetic and spiritual contemplation and takes place each spring. Further refinements involve the desired nearby presence of a temple or shrine and light effects at night.
Shiseido has released in conjunction with this event an eau de parfum called Hirosaki Sakura Monogatari (The Hirosaki Cherry Tale) in its local perfume series. It is inspired by the cherry blossoms of Hirosaki park, one of the most popular spots for hanami and was commissioned by Hirosaki Tourism and Convention Bureau and Cosmetics.....
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With its new perfume Dreaming, Tommy Hilfiger is hoping to reach a slightly more mature cohort of women aged 18-35 than with the Tommy fragrances and colognes, which were aimed more at teenagers. The brand also wishes to offer a more sophisticated image by harking back to old Hollywood and enlisting super model Mona Johansson glamed up as Marilyn Monroe. The new project is at its most creative in its marketing approach to enticing consumers. A special interactive website for the US and Italy has been set up, Dreaming About You, which demonstrates once more the interest in and development of online interactive marketing but going a step further fully explores the dreaming thematic by enlisting a dream specialist, Craig Webb, and opening a dream board called "Dream Confessions" where one can pen down and have one’s dreams interpreted. According to the press release, three dreams a week will be picked and interpreted by the expert. However "For visitors whose dreams are too personal to share with the world, they will be able to use the automated dream interpreter. A special feature in this section, which will also be available on March 17th, allows visitors to receive automated dream interpretations via keywords they submit regarding their dreams, as well as forward their dream interpretation to a friend." The pure parfum version of a Tommy Hilfiger fragrance is also a first for the brand and only that concentration comes with a book that enables you to decipher your dreams.
Hilfiger went as far as commissioning a study on dreams amongst the US population to Harris Interactive. The results offered are short of complex and reflect a surprisingly simplistic consumerist and materialist bent only mitigated by an altruistic orientation. According to this survey,....
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