Les Espionnes Du Tsar - (Lit. The Female Spies Of The Tsar ) December 1st of 2007 saw the release at the Galeries Lafayette of a collection of 7 perfumes inspired by legendary feminine types rather than famous personalities by...
January 2008 Archives
Ban on Shark-Derived Squalene {Beauty News}
Major beauty companies have now decided to go green and spare the live(r)s of sharks. Squalene, a natural organic compound with much vaunted beauty properties found in shark liver, but also in Amaranth seed, rice brean, wheat germ, and...
Lancôme Cyclades (2008) {New Fragrance}
After Tropiques and Benghal, Lancôme will release in February of 2008 a third fragrance in its Collection Voyage series called Cyclades, which is exclusive to travel retail in principle but usually make it to the discounters' and department stores'...
Fabbies Awards Nomination For The Scented Salamander Fragrance Blog & Daily Webzine {Fragrance News}
We are pleased to announce that The Scented Salamander was nominated for a Fabbies Award, a fashion prize for blogs and e-zines, in the Beauty Category.We want to say that it is heartwarming to see fragrance recognized as an...
Underlying Notes by Eva Pasco: A Romance Novel About Perfume + 2 Excerpts {Fragrant Readings}
Eva Pasco is a romance novel author based in Newport, Rhode Island. Her debut novel entitled Underlying Notes is as centered on fragrance as any perfume junkie might hope (although the main character does not consider herself an addict)....
Hilary Duff Wrapped With Love (2008) {New Perfume} {Celebrity Fragrance}
Singer Hilary Duff is releasing her second signature fragrance called Wrapped With Love, which comes after With Love (2006), one of the decent-smelling celebrity fragrances one can find in the market. Reading the ad copy makes one think that...
Cacharel Amor Pour Homme (2006) "Men's Rose" {Perfume Review} {Men's Cologne} {Smell-The-Roses-Till-Valentine's Day Challenge - Day 13}
Amor Pour Homme by Cacharel was composed in 2006 by perfumer Sophie Labbé together with Pierre Wargnye. Thanks to the book 22 Perfumers in Creation by Clara Molloy, we learn that just like for Labbé's other fragrances, the perfumer...
Caswell-Massey Dr. Hunter's Rosewater & Glycerine Hand Creme {Perfume Review} {Beauty Notes} {Smell-The-Roses-Till-Valentine's Day Challenge - Day 12}
Dr. Hunter's Rosewater & Glycerine Hand Creme by Caswell-Massey - one of the oldest American brands founded by Dr. William Hunter in 1752 in Newport, Rhode Island - smells like the roses cultivated by our grand-mothers in their gardens,...
Perfume & Mores in America Through The Lens of Ugly Betty {The 5th Sense in the News}
Is perfume consumption tellingly seen today in America as the sign of an addictive personality, the mark of excess, and even the potential cause for murderous rage and death by poison? Writers Silvio Horta and Bill Wrubel, for an...
Alberta Ferretti To Launch Signature Perfume With Elizabeth Arden {Fragrance News}
Milan-based Italian fashion designer Alberta Ferretti will launch her signature fragrance in the spring of 2009. A long-term exclusive world-wide licensing agreement was signed between fashion group Aeffe, founded by Alberta Ferretti and her brother Massimo in 1981, and...
New Tokyo Address For Le Labo + New Exclusive {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses} {Fragrance News}
Le Labo in Daikanyama Le Labo, the independent creative perfumery with a Jacobin mindset set up by two French ex-marketing exec (see our Q & A) in New York city is continuing its global expansion by inaugurating both in-store spaces...
Perfume News in Brief {New Fragrances in 2008}
• Independent French Lille-based perfumer Hubert Maes is widening his distribution network beyond By Terry and is planning to release two new feminine perfumes during the first semester of 2008.• François Demachy has overseen the creation of a new version...
Serge Lutens Sa Majesté La Rose (2000): If Ivan The Terrible Were A Rose {Perfume Review} {Smell-The-Roses-Till-Valentine's Day Challenge - Day 11}
Sa Majesté La Rose by Serge Lutens (Her Majesty The Rose) is a soliflore composition centering on Moroccan rose absolute. The perfume showcases to a certain extent the brutality and rawness of rose absolute, making it only relatively tamer...
Yves Rocher Rose Ispahan {Perfume Review In A Nutshell} {Smell-The-Roses-Till-Valentine's Day Challenge - Day 10}
Rose Ispahan by Yves Rocher offers a filiation with Yves Rocher Ispahan in as much as it seems to belong to the same soft-oriental family. Little information is forthcoming however as the scent is discontinued. The Rose of Ispahan...
The Body Shop White Musk Blush, Japanese Cherry Blossom (2008) {New Fragrances}
The Body Shop have introduced two new scents called White Musk Blush and Japanese Cherry Blossom, both in eaux de toilette concentrations.White Musk Blush is part of a recent effort launched by The Body Shop to update and draw...