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 The association of 9 producers of Pomerol wines called Pomerol Séduction have partnered with noses Camille Goutal and Isabelle Doyen of Annick Goutal parfums to offer a special limited-edition wine-tasting coffret which launched on July 1st, 2010...
Continue reading "Pomerol Séduction Partners with Annick Goutal Parfums {Fragrance News} {Shopping Tip}" »
 Makeup artist Sue Devitt, who hails from Australia, will launch a new, limited-edition fragrance entitled Golden Temple Effusion inspired by her love of travel and encounter with the religious temple architecture of Thailand. The scent, which was developed by IFF, is the olfactory interpretation of an "... early-morning mist rising from Thailand's bamboo forests,"...
Continue reading "Sue Devitt Golden Temple Effusion (2010) {New Perfume} {Beauty Notes}" »
 Perfumer Bruno Jovanovic of IFF explains the ideas behind the new fragrance for men Biotherm, Force. The main representation is that of a battle between the notes of grapefruit (pamplemousse) and vetyver (vétiver) while the marriage and structuring of the composition is based on water (eau)...
Continue reading "Video Interview w/ Perfumer Bruno Jovanovic around Biotherm Force {Scented Thoughts}" »
 British designer Vivienne Westwood is paying homage to Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland this fall with a new perfume called Naughty Alice which will debut in late September 2010. We are told it " references magic and mischief." The couturière's talent had already been put to contribution on the day of the world premiere for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland when the cast decided to don on quirky Westwood designs...
Continue reading "Vivienne Westwood Naughty Alice (2010) {New Fragrance}" »
 Sensuous Noir by Estée Lauder ($48; $60) is the latest feminine launch by the beauty company. It arrives on the market two years after the original Sensuous which was seen as a move to step back from the floral portfolio at Estée Lauder and ride on the woods trend for women. The fragrance was developed by Karyn
Khoury, Senior Vice President, Corporate
Fragrance Development Worldwide, The Estée Lauder Companies and Evelyn
Lauder, Senior Corporate Vice President, The Estée Lauder Companies, in
cooperation with Firmenich's Annie Buzantian. According to the press release, the idea behind this new iteration is the following, "Sensuality as an experience and as an emotion has a very broad spectrum of expression. There are many moods, many facets, many shades of sensuality, which range from the more luminous expression of Sensuous to deeper, darker, more mysterious expressions," says Karyn Khoury, Senior Vice President of Corporate Fragrance Development Worldwide, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. "This concept of further exploring a darker, more mysterious olfactive territory and deeper shades of sensuality inspired the creation of Sensuous Noir."
Notes: Exotic purple rose, night blooming jasmine, rose essence,
black pepper / melted woods Nature Print, crème noir, richly faceted,
earthy and elusive Patchouli Prisma, spiced lily / benzoin, creamy
vanilla, rich honey, glowing amber. The fragrance opens on a honeyed woody impression which quickly becomes more animalic and musky. There might even be a hint of leather, an illusion which can be created by a benzoin note. The fragrance after letting out these facets settles for a more linear mode. The composition then gently deepens, becomes more tangibly woody-buttery, thus reconnecting with the signature accord of its forebear, Sensuous (2008). The woody accents this time combine the famous "molten woods" sensation with drier, dustier notes of wood evoking cedar and later sandalwood in the drydown. The alliance of musk and cedar together with light florals is particularly felicitous and pleasurable to smell. It recalls flower beds fertilized with cedar wood chips to my nose. The scent is warm and welcoming. The honey is soft. The amber betrays a hint of water so as to acknowledge the taste for freshness and in order not be polarizing. The woody accord is centering...
Continue reading "Estée Lauder Sensuous Noir (2010): Sensuous in the Evening in Public Spaces {Fragrance Review}" »
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The 2010 Fall season of fragrance launches promises to be particularly rich this year with many, diverse universes of fragrance to choose from. Here is our list of fragrances to watch and give a sniff to (there are and will be more, but you need to start somewhere, right?) In the Celebrity category, we're expecting to see some ripples made around the launches of Jennifer Aniston EDP (timely US launch for the Holidays although dates remain unspecified), Halle Berry Reveal, and Mary J. Blige My Life. The latter already launched on HSN to record-breaking sales based solely on the personality of the singer and philanthropist. More than 70 000 bottles sold in the first few days. The real test of perfume popularity will be of course to see how many happy repeat customers there will be. But Blige is already benefiting from a honeymoon effect and fans are creating an I-really-want-to-love-this-fragrance momentum. Jennifer Lopez will show once more what she has learned as a veteran and marketing trend-setter in the category with Love and Glamour. Beyoncé will no doubt consolidate her fan base with a new flanker, Heat Ultimate Elixir.Britney Spears may be past the height of tabloid frenzy regarding her private life but her new scent Radiance is just the right dose of Liberace Kitsch one secretly hoped to see expressed in a bottle. One should not neglect recent summer celebrity launches which will carry us into the fall: Jessica Simpson Fancy Nights and Paris Hilton Tease. The first one is clearly a fall and winter companion...
Continue reading "2010 Fall Fragrance Trends and Perfume Launches {Scented Thoughts} {Trend Alerts}" »
 Amouage will launch a new duo of fragrances on September 22, 2010 called Memoir Man and Memoir Woman. Both perfumes are compositions centering on the absinthe note and evoke a set of complex, dark symbolic references. The inspiration is, "...the decadent mien and genius of the 19th Century French poet, Charles Baudelaire
and the German philosophy of the doppelganger, Amouage Creative Director Christopher Chong, embarks on a deep and inquisitive voyage to unlock the unfathomable mysteries that reside within human nature. He expresses these influences by coalescing the provoking and potent ingredient of Absinth with other floral and wood accords to evoke a sombre mood,"...
Continue reading "Amouage Memoir Man & Woman (2010): The Black Swan {New Fragrances}" »
Mary J. Blige My Life by Carol's Daughter is one of the latest celebrity fragrances to appear on the market and certainly the one which was most talked about in recent memory for its record-breaking sales on HSN on July 31st 2010, the day of its exclusive on air and online introduction. According to Harlem World, During the first 6 hours, 10 000 bottles of perfume were sold each hour. 20% more customers tuned in. 10 000 people signed up for regular shipping of the fragrance. And all this was based only on Mary J. Blige's charisma, the link her fans feel with her and perhaps a phenomenon of instant, real-time mutually encouraging shopping spree and unfolding popularity. As the media commented again and again, the bestseller's takeoff was solely based on intangibles such as trust and love for the person behind the scent as no one could tell for sure what fragrance would come out of the heart-shaped flacon gilded with the words "My Life." The one note that was released in advance must have been the most laconic press preview ever: expect tuberose. Then 4 days before the HSN launch, Blige unveiled a little more saying that My Life was for women "who love tuberose, love jasmine, love fruit," she says. "It's all there." The name comes from one of the singer's albums, the one through which Blige says her fans have most connected to her. The decision to launch My Life on HSN was deliberate and bold. Next to nothing filtered prior to the official introduction and there was a strategic reason for it. According to the Associated Press,
"A year ago, we were strategizing and asking, `What could we do to
differentiate ourselves in the beauty business?'" adds HSN CEO Mindy
Grossman. "The whole experience of buying fragrance now: I don't find
it compelling. I think it's a big opportunity. ... Buying a scent is
buying a smell, but you're also buying what it means to you, what went
into it."....
Continue reading "Mary J. Blige My Life (2010): Sweet Melopia {Fragrance Review}" »
 Luxury jewelry maker Van Cleef & Arpels will launch a new masculine fragrance from September 2010 called Midnight in Paris. It will be readily available in two concentrations, in Eau de Toilette and Eau de Parfum. The idea behind the perfume was to create a luxurious leather fragrance, a sensual skin effect on which a luminous flower is said to be resting. The composition is signed by nose Domitille Bertier, with the collaboration of perfumer Olivier Polge...
Continue reading "Van Cleef & Arpels Midnight in Paris EDT & EDP (2010): Dark Lily of the Valley for Men {New Fragrance} {Men's Cologne}" »
 Lisa Hoffman Variations Madagascar Orchid Day Time & Evening
dual set ($39,99) is a limited edition spin off for a good cause of the
original set introduced in the spring of 2008 with 4 variations which
also included "Morning" and "Bedtime" scents. 20% of the sales are destined
to the
Rain Forest Foundation which was co-founded by Sting and Trudie Styler whom brand founder Lisa Hoffman, the wife of actor Dustin Hoffman (see review of Perfume the movie), considers to be her eco-mentors. Madagascar
Orchid first made its appearance in functional perfumery as part of the Lisa
Hoffman Body Spa Collection in 2007. At the time, the label announced
that thanks to the Scent Trek program and Headspace technology by Givaudan, the latter which is able to record
natural scents in situ without destroying the plants, they had been
able to introduce for the first time in Western perfumery two new
ingredients: Star of Madagascar Orchid and Japanese Agarwood, which
were both translated later into fine, concentrated perfume oils in 2008...
Continue reading "Lisa Hoffman Madagascar Orchid Day Time & Evening (2008) {Fragrance Reviews}" »
 As previously said, Bang is the new Marc Jacobs scent for men after an 8-year lapse in masculine perfumery, since Marc Jacobs for Men. Coty reportedly approached Jacobs with the idea of a new men's launch and while the fragrance is not officially a celebrity fragrance it was conceived in a similar spirit in my view by a company which specializes in this type of autobiographical fragrances. No perfumer names are given except the name of company Givaudan and that of fragrance developer Ann Gottlieb whose name is behind many commercial successes in perfumery. A dedicated Bang website has been set up. The main olfactory idea behind Bang - and not just its starting point as I found out - relies on the effect of showcasing Marc Jacobs's personal taste in fragrance. The designer explained himself that, "I wanted to do something that I would love," said Jacobs. "I
particularly like spice notes, especially pepper, so that became a
starting place."
Smelling Bang is discovering, as befits the genre of celebrity wardrobe fragrance (see Fergie Outspoken), a remix of favorite scents worn by Jacobs and already available on the market, but condensed, blended together.
Notes: Pink, black, white peppercorns, warm primal masculine woods, elemi, benzoin resin, vetyver, white moss, patchouli...
Continue reading "Marc Jacobs Bang (2010): Niche for the Masses {New Fragrance} {Perfume Review & Musings}" »
 The dark blue color of the sky above Deauville at dusk © The Scented Salamander Bleu de Chanel is the latest masculine to be launched by the luxury house of fashion. You can read more about the background story here, here, here and here. The composition is signed by perfumer Jacques Polge who usually works with input from perfumer Christopher Sheldrake. Polge said of Bleu, "With Bleu de Chanel, I wanted something frank, direct and pure in a
masculine scent,..I did trials with all of the raw
materials that we are constantly fine-tuning, and I searched for what
we could do and say that was different from what has already been done.
And of course, something that could strike a chord with men today. Bleu
de Chanel is reduced to its essential elements, in other words:
freshness, spiciness and dry woodiness. It's also a very sexy
fragrance!"
While the meticulous fine-tuning is perceptible in the new composition, Bleu de Chanel is not what one would call a flashily original perfume, but rather it is a subtly original work. The sum of the efforts that were put in the fragrance does translate in the end in a perfume with unique qualities, but if you were to think of originality as being like a shift in a paradigm as evident as the clap of thunder, this is not what takes place here. However, accepting the scent of Bleu de Chanel will mean accepting the idea that a marine accord is not just for sportswear but universally elegant, accept a certain dreamy, poetical quality associated with a mainstream fragrance, and accept a certain blurring of the lines in terms of gender. Notes: citrus fruits, deep blue sea accord, grapefruit, peppermint, pink pepper, nutmeg, ginger, cedar, jasmine, patchouli, frankincense, labdanum. Bleu de Chanel opens on a complex and addictive accord of seascape smells and woods, all this with a suggestion of salty booziness, energized by a wedge of lime, warmed by ambery fruits. The composition evokes a familiar outdoorsy accord of masculine perfumery only here it has been both refined and intensified and made in my view to feel utterly seductive...
Continue reading "Chanel Bleu de Chanel (2010): L'Heure Bleue by Chanel {Fragrance Review}" »
 NUVO magazine have posted a preview of the new commercial signed by Martin Scorsese for Bleu de Chanel featuring Gaspard Ulliel and Ingrid Schram. There is also a second segment which is presented as a "trailer." You can watch them right after the jump...
Continue reading "Be Unexpected, Bleu de Chanel: New Commercial by Martin Scorsese {Perfume Images & Ads}" »
 Avon have launched a new fragrance called Rare Diamonds which features a diamond-orchid note in its heart. The tag line is " Capture the Brilliance." "Rich, romantic and positively brilliant. A brilliant jewel faceted with
sparkling plum blossom, diamond orchid and the sophisticated elegance
of rich cashmere woods,"...
Continue reading "Avon Rare Diamonds (2010) {New Fragrance}" »
 Did we expect luxury designer Gucci to turn to Batman author Frank Miller to deliver a cartoon-inspired version of the Guilty girl ( Rachel Evan Wood) meets the Guilty boy ( Chris Evans)?...
Continue reading "Gucci Guilty & Batman Logos Meet in New Commercial by Frank Miller {Perfume Images & Ads}" »
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