German fashion brand Jil Sander will launch a new masculine fragrance in September in Europe called Man, which is proposed as the feminine counterpart to Style introduced last year. The aromatic woody scent was created by Thierry Wasser in...
July 2007 Archives
More on Can Can by Paris Hilton {New Perfume}
Celebrity fragrances smack of opportunism, but they are also fascinating in some sense as they mirror and shape, sometimes very successfully, the desires and dreams of the average consumer. There is also always the possibility that the fragrance will...
Fil de Soie by L'Atelier Bohême {Perfume Short (Review)} {Men's Cologne}
Fil de Soie (Silk Thread) is one of three fragrances in the collection by L’Atelier Bohême, a small independent French perfume house located in Vernon, not far from Giverny and Versailles, known for being a subject of many Monet...
Beckham Intimately Beckham Night for Men & Women, Celine Dion Paris Nights, Kylie Minogue Sweet Darling, Miss Sixty Rock Muse {New Fragrances} {Celebrity Perfumes}
Coty Beauty will be counting this fall on its stable of celebrity fragrances to cause a stir. The Beckhams after Intimately Beckham will launch Intimately Beckham Night for Men and Women, reportedly its sexiest offering to date. Intimately Beckham...
XX and XY by Hugo {New Perfumes}
Hugo will launch a duo of perfumes on September 3rd 2007 called XX and XY. They are meant to suggest seduction as always with an added dose of aggression as well, mirroring in this sense the competitive relationship that...
Crisis Looming for Russian Perfume Market {The 5th Sense in the News}
Excessive alcohol consumption has been a serious long-standing problem in Russian history. Gorbachev's reform policy for curbing alcohol consumption initiated in 1985 and officially in effect on paper until 1988 was a significant landmark. As the poster shown below...
News in Brief: 3 New Annick Goutal Perfumes For This Fall {New Perfumes}
Following a plural-launch pattern that is quite trendy this year although not radically new, Annick Goutal will release three new perfumes at once in September of 2007. Since the launch is still spoken of in a bit of a...
Happy 4th of July! & Perfumes for the 4th of July {Scented Thoughts}
Happy 4th of July! We are reposting articles published last year on the blog regarding perfumes and politics and in particular what fragrances are good to wear on the 4th of July!Patriotic (American) Perfumes to Wear on the 4th of...
Iris Pallida 2007 by L'Artisan Parfumeur {New Perfume} L'Eté en Douce, Chez Moi {Fragrance News}
In October of 2007 L'Artisan Parfumeur will introduce its third installment in its series of perfumes dedicated to choice vintage harvests. After Fleur d'Oranger 2005, Fleur de Narcisse 2006, it will be the turn of Iris Pallida 2007 based...
Note Ambrée by Martine Micallef {New Perfume} Private Line for Douglas {Fragrance News}
Martine Micallef is preparing to launch a new perfume called Note Ambrée (Amber-y Note). It is part of its most recent line of perfumes called Les Notes established to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the brand and which already...
Fragrance Conspiracy {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses} {Fragrance News}
Fragrance Conspiracy presents itself on its business card as an alternative distributor of rare perfumes, the ones in particular created by artistic director Rami Mekdachi a former musician who is now well-known for having a knack in bringing out...
Tomatoes With Hints of Lemon & Rose Please {The 5th Sense in the News}
Israeli researchers have succeeded in incorporating aromas of lemon and rose into a new kind of GM tomato.The transgenic tomato includes a gene from a variety of lemon basil, Ocimum basilicum, that produces an aroma-making enzyme called geraniol synthase,...
Sexy Thoughts by Paula Abdul {New Perfume} {Celebrity Fragrance}
If we already knew that Paula Abdul was planning to launch her debut signature perfume, we did not know yet that she could make the process sound so irreverent, especially when talking about her inspiration to compose a fragrance...
Your Current Top 3 Fragrances {Ask Marie-Helene}
Dear Readers,Karen from Australia is doing a research on fragrance tastes. Here is her letter:..........
Tubéreuse 40 by Le Labo {Perfume Short (Review)} {Celebrity Fragrance}
The ways to a perfume are a bit intricate sometimes and we do not remember exactly how we ended up testing Le Labo Tubéreuse 40, but we do remember that suddenly we had to know more about the story behind...