For almond perfume lovers, L'Occitane en Provence has a scent that is both pretty and comforting. It feels as comforting as a drink of Turkish sahlep sipped in misty autumnal Istanbul. The fragrance is called Blossom Dew in English...
August 2007 Archives
Histoire d'Un Rêve, Histoire Charnelle, Délicieuse Histoire by Hubert Maes {New Fragrances}
Hubert Maes is a French indie perfumer based in the north of France, in Lille. He has created a collection of three perfumes, each telling a story of a different woman, called Histoire d'Un Rêve (The Story of a...
Gwen Stefani L & Dior Midnight Poison: When Bottles Matter More Than Perfumes {Perfume Short (Reviews)} {New Fragrances} {Scented Images} {Celebrity Perfumes}
Gwen Stefani L and Dior Midnight Poison -- we hesitated between categorizing them as "New Perfumes" or "Fragrance News". Technically speaking they are 2007 new launches, but the real news are not that they are new perfumes but rather...
Update on Kate Moss by Kate Moss {Fragrance News} {Scented Images} {Celebrity Perfume}
Kate Moss' new perfume started selling yesterday in the UK and already it is number 1 at Superdrugs, topping Stunning by Jordan aka Katie Price. The celebrity perfume culture seems so alive in the UK! Anything to do with...
Floriental, Potion d'Amour, Méditerranée, & Rhapsodie by Sharini {Fragrance News}
Nicholas Jennings is a young perfumer originally from Great Britain who is now established in the south of France in the lovely village of Aniane. He has created a line of four eco-friendly organic fragrances, which includes three women's...
Jasmin by Molinard (1860) {Perfume Short (Review)}
Molinard is one of the oldest French perfumeries in existence, established in 1849 in Grasse, in the ancient European capital of perfumery for raw materials. Jasmin is a jasmine soliflore, whose first incarnation appeared in 1860 at the time...
Gap Lavender Tea No. 362, Coconut Tuberose No. 821, Mandarin Jasmine No. 094, Velvet Bloom No. 695, Washed Cotton No. 784, White Amber No. 541 {Perfume Short (Reviews)} {New Fragrances} {Scented Thoughts}
Gap, one of the temples of ready-made wear for the young and the slightly less young (portraits of actors Liev Schreiber and Ken Watanabe in the store's men section added a touch of maturity to the brand's image as...
Christina Aguilera by Christina Aguilera (2007) {New Fragrance} {Celebrity Perfume}
Singer Christina Aguilera had already previously released an eponymous fragrance with a retro flair in which she was dressed in an emerald-colored dress looking very much like her model, Marylin Monroe. A new perfume also called Christina Aguilera will...
Guy Robert's Thoughts On Perfumery {Fragrant Reading}
Thanks to a member of Basenotes, we came across a wonderful humorous text by perfumer Guy Robert, which had us in stitches. His reflections are excerpted from the newsletter of the British Society of Perfumers of August 1998:The serious...
Thierry Mugler Angel's Plural Formulations & Toxicity ? {The 5th Sense in the News}
Thierry Mugler Angel is periodically the object of scrutiny and attacks by a health foundation called National Toxic Encephalopathy Foundation. Why this perfume comes under attack only and in particular is not altogether clear as it would seem difficult...
Visa by Robert Piguet (2007) {Perfume Review} {New Fragrance/Advance Review}
Since the Robert Piguet label was bought by Fashion Fragrances and Cosmetics Ltd., the company has re-introduced several perfumes from the former Parisian couture house's catalog, including two of their most famous creations, Bandit and Fracas, which have enjoyed...
Business Is Always Risky, How About Going Into Perfume Decanting? {Fragrance News}
Osmoz is raising an issue today about which we had been wondering as well. Are the newly cropping-up decanting businesses legitimate? We already know that the answer would be "no" and a zero-tolerance policy in France where perfume decanting...
The Vogue of Teens Perfumes {The 5th Sense in the News} {Scented Image}
As American young men have become apparently addicted to body sprays, Disney offers perfume lines targeting younger and younger consumers, and more and more candy-like notes crop up even in fragrances targeting more mature women, we might all be...
Diesel Fuel For Life For Her & Him {New Fragrances} {Scented Image}
As previously reported (please see story board), Diesel is launching Fuel For Life For Her and Fuel For Life For Him. The global launch is scheduled for this coming Monday. The women's scent is described as a floral chypre...
The Knize Ten by Knize {Perfume Review & Musings/Part II} {Fragrances of Paris}
After our previous excursus into some of the historic background of Knize Ten by Knize we now come to our impressions of the scent in part II of the review.Knize Ten may have have had you expectant that it...