As previously announced, John Varvatos is releasing his first fragrance for women after two masculine colognes. Reportedly, his wife Joyce was instrumental in making him take the leap. Here is a sneak peek at the advert and range of products.
John Varvatos for Women was introduced during a private dinner on February 11, 2008 in West Hollywood California. (Photos are from Wireimage.com - do not download without permission)
Last time when we reviewed Skarb by Humiecki & Graef, we had decided to use, as illustration, a picture of Daniel Craig crying for photographer Sam Taylor-Wood, from her opus entitled Men Crying. With his physical appearance that can pass as Russian, it felt like a doubly pertinent illustration for the post about that perfume that is supposed to evoke how Slavic men cry (and which might have been partly influenced by the concept behind Taylor-Wood's artistic and psychological study.).....
Set yourself free, with a little cologne! Tom Brady is racing (in a car) with a black stallion in the wide open Western American spaces (California in fact). Aaah, the nostalgia for the frontier days is palpable!
There are five perfumes in the new Thierry Mugler collection called Miroir, Miroir. Here is a peek at the advertisement where each scent represents a different facet of the same woman who is goddess-like. The quintet already debuted at Sephora Champs Elysées in December of 2007 but will become more widely advertised this month.
In 2006 Guerlain added Mayotte to its collection of re-editions called Les Parisiennes. It was made immediately clear that it was a re-bottling of the failed Mahora issued in 2000 -- an Eau de Toilette version had also been issued in 2001 -- in an attempt to propose anew this tropical, not-so-Parisian scent. (The original name was not kept due to legal reasons and the fact that it had not been officially registered.) In fact, Mayotte is arguably the most American-smelling of the perfumes created by the venerable French house thanks to its all-out tropical white-flower personality put together with its linear character.
Some questions arose on this blog as to whether it was exactly the same fragrance or a different composition claiming a link to Mahora. For US-based customers who can easily access numerous online discounters, it is an especially pertinent question to ask as the prices for Mayotte and Mahora differ vastly. The first one is 140 €, the second one can be had for cheap...
Ex-artistic director of Dior Hedi Slimane directed the TV spot for the fragrance Dior Homme, which he helped compose. The ad features model Jamie Dornan and the song "For Lovers" sung by Pete Doherty.
One of the most beautiful perfume ads ever: the flow of the garland, ribbon, and tassel all align suggesting lushness, richness, and elegant nonchalance as well as a subliminal cornucopia shape. The black and white contrast done in quasi religious chiaro-oscuro tones reflects the introspective qualities of the scent well. The image is even a bit haloed; the perfume and the decorations glow as if a pristine white light were shining through stained glass in a Scandinavian church set in a snowy landscape in a Dreyer's movie.
If one has had the good fortune of getting an advance copy of the upcoming book by Chandler Burr entitled The Perfect Scent (release date, Jan 22, 2008) focusing on two case studies of fragrance development in the industry, Un Jardin Sur Le Nil by Hermès and Lovely by Coty, one then gets the full meaning of what "going to Dadeland" might mean when it comes to boosting fragrance sales. Is Paris Hilton visiting Dadeland (and other malls for that matter currently) because she is eager to meet her fans and do a little fieldwork or in anticipation of through-the-roof sales and to thank her fans? Not quite........
We saw some discussions on threads trying to sort out whether the L'Instant Magic (see our review) ad features Bar Refaeli or Michelle Buswell. We do not have this information in the press release from Guerlain and so initially put Bar Refaeli based on another press source. Now that we have seen the TV commercial, it is clear it is not Refaeli in the TV spot but Buswell as indicated by You Tube and other sources. The printed ad looks a bit more like it could be Refaeli hence the confusion. I think also that it makes sense they would hire a taller model to wear this extraordinary gown (Buswell is 1,80 m vs. Refaeli is 1,74 m).
You can watch the sumptuous ad directed by Jean Bocheux,
As a follow-up to our previous post on The One for Men by Dolce & Gabbana, here are a couple of pictures from the launch party for the cologne which took place on Dec 4, 2007.
The team: Stefano Gabbana, Matthew McConaughey, his girl-friend model Camilla Alves, and Domenico Dolce at the Gramercy Park Hotel
Images Countess/Wireimage.com - Do not reproduce without Wireimage.com's permission
As reported earlier, the niche perfume house Divine founded by Yvon Mouchel in 1986, which initially opened in Dinard in Brittany then recently secured a display area at the Bon Marché in Paris has now inaugurated a luxurious flagship store rue Scribe in the neighborhood of the Opéra in the capital city. The house offers a collection of six fragrances focusing on quality: "DIVINE, L'Ame Soeur, L'Infante, L'Inspiratrice, L'Homme Sage, L'Homme de Coeur".......
This delightful object is a "pistolet à parfum" from the end of the 18th century. It is made of enameled gold and fine pearls. The petals of the bud open becoming a flower to reveal a vinaigrette in its heart. The golden blossom could release perfumes or the effluvia of salts for ladies on the verge of fainting. There is also a timepiece inserted in the perfume pistolet (see on the right). Exquisite.
A reader, rubytulip22, sent us this video for Promesse by Cacharel launched in 2005. The TV spot features super models Laetitia Casta and Matthew Avedon and the whole concept is very pretty. Film was shot by Stéphane Sednaoui and lyrics are "1, 2, 3" sung by singer Camille Dalmais and excerpted from her album "Le Sac Des Filles". She is also the voice of Colette in Ratatouille (a must-see-and-"smell"movie for the 5th sense aficionados) Thanks to rubytulip22 for the link and info! So here are some eye-and-ear-candies for you,
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