Parisian home textile designer Pierre Frey has a scented candle or bougie parfumée paying homage to the ex-queen of France Marie-Antoinette. It is simply named after her. As already indicated earlier, there is a veritable Marie-Antoinette fashion going on in...
September 2008 Archives
Stephen Jones Launches Fragrance At Dover Street Market {Scented (Party) Images}
Stephen Jones in black regalia to match his inkwell of a perfume flaconMilliner Stephen Jones who described his first signature scent as being "... a violet that's been hit by a meteorite," resting on both an "innocent" and "otherworldly" interpretation...
Amouage To Present Lyric At Aedes {Scented Paths & Fragrant Addresses}
Lovers of perfumes - especially rose perfumes - and opera can attend an event at niche boutique Aedes in New York City on October 2, 2008 from 4:30 pm to 7 pm. The unveiling of the new duo of scents...
Isabel Derroisné Secrets de Hammam (2008) {New Perfume}
Isabel Derroisné have introduced a new perfume in their collection Parfumeur Voyageur (Perfumer-Traveler) titled Secrets de Hammam (Secrets of the Hammam).The brand is slowly building a reputation for hiring promising young talents in perfumery and giving them the opportunity to...
Kiehl's Forest Rain (2008) {New Perfume}
Kiehl's, a brand now owned by L'Oréal but which was originally an apothecary brand established in 1851 in New York City, have launched a new perfume called Forest Rain. They are famous among perfumistas in particular for their musk oil.Interestingly,...
Jean-Paul Goude Loves... {What Perfume(s) Celebs Love To Wear}
Björk as seen by Jean-Paul GoudeJean-Paul Goude reveals in the October issue of Votre Beauté what his signature perfume is, as well as what scent one day made his head turn around, leaving him with an unforgettable olfactory memory.He confesses...
Soap and Glory Sexy Mother Pucker Lip Gloss
While being on the subject of plumping action in lip glosses, be it visual as with the Ultra-Gloss Reflect series by Dior or attempting to be real, I remembered a really bad gloss I tried from the brand Soap and...
Flower by Kenzo Winter Flowers (2008) {New Perfume}
Kenzo has launched a new winter flanker to their classic Flower by Kenzo launched in 2000 (it feels longer than that given how much it has become a reference point for powdery florals) called Winter Flowers. The composition is inspired...
Beauty Reads - Latest Posts
Here are our latest posts on beauty, from most recent to older:A review of Dior Ultra-Gloss Reflect Lip Gloss in Lurex Plum from Dandy LadyA review of Patyka Organic Face Scrub - Gommage Visage Bio: How Organic Is It?Check out...
Dior Ultra-Gloss Reflect in Lurex Plum from Dandy Lady
Lurex Plum 877, a lovely, deep eye-catching plum with antique rose thrown in it and fine multi-colored shimmer, is a new color born from the conjunction of Dior's reformulation of their Dior Addict Lip Gloss line into the Dior Addict...
Patyka Organic Face Scrub - Gommage Visage Bio: How Organic Is It?
Patyka is a French brand established in 2004, after having taken over the originally Hungarian label meaning "apothecary". It is known for its line of organic perfumes, and in 2006 had decided to diversify and reinforce its beauty offerings with...
Natura Brasil Amor America Paramela, Palo Santo (2008) {New Fragrances}
Brazilian brand Natura, which is called Natura Brasil in France, and which specializes in beauty and fragrance products based on indigenous ingredients to that vast country will start branching out at the end of September with a new duo of...
A Gasoline Perfume Is Hard To Create Says Christopher Brosius {Fragrant Reading}
No gasoline!I happened on en entry by perfumer Christopher Brosius of CB I Hate Perfume regarding the difficulty of recreating a gasoline perfume. His is a commentary precisely on Kate Moss's desire to capture the alluring (for many as it...
Demeter Pinkitude for Breast Cancer Awareness Month (2008) {New Perfume}
Demeter Fragrance Library has a new perfume out called Pinkitude. 20% of its proceeds will go to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. From the ad copy,"Show off your PINKITUDE, and help educate others that early detection is the key...
Kate Moss Giving Serious Thought To Gasoline-Themed Perfume {Scented Quote of the Day}
Kate Moss who already launched two perfumes under her name, Kate and Velvet Hour, is now saying "why not?" to a fragrance featuring a gasoline accord,"I remember loving that smell when I was young. I've heard it's one of the...