In April 2009, Vera Wang will be adding a new kind of princess persona to the Princess portfolio with a new scent called Rock Princess. It comes after Princess and Flower Princess. Lori Singer of Coty Prestige Designer Fragrances said...
January 2009 Archives
Serge Lutens Nuit de Cellophane (2009) {Perfume Review & Musings}
Cellophane was invented in 1908 by Swiss chemist Jacques Brandenberger. The new term was coined as a contraction of "cellulose" and "diaphanous", transparency being one of its chief characteristics. If transparency is not a new effect in perfumery, the...
Best Advice for Valentine's Day: Sniff Your Partner {The 5th Sense in the News} - Valentine's Day Recap {Fragrant Readings}
George Dodd answers the fundamental question of how best to reproduce your genes on the occasion of upcoming Valentine's Day 2009. Yes, I know, not very romantic-sounding, but that's what it is all about really, at a certain level of...
Guerlain Fleurs de Shalimar - Shalimar Flowers Limited Editions: The Flower Behind The Pod {Fragrance News}
There are some fragrances you love so much that you are glad when you can rhapsodize further about them by laying another variation of them on your dressing table. Unconditionals of Shalimar will be pleased to learn that this spring,...
Guerlain Mitsouko Fleur de Lotus (2009): Mitsouko Goes Back To Her Roots... So To Speak {New Perfume}
A japonisant ad for Mitsouko from 1967 on the left -- in 2009, the thinking is pushed a big step further (the right part is our view of the evolution) Mitsouko purists will be probably feeling shivers running down their...
Hermes Hermessence Vanille Galante (2009) {Perfume Review & Musings} - Part 2
The Hermessence Collection in 2009 Vanille Galante: The Olfactory Report and Review As pointed out earlier in the first part of our review of Vanille Galante by Hermès, although perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena voiced his personal issues having to tackle vanillin in the...
Hermes Hermessence Vanille Galante (2009) {Perfume Review & Musings} - Part 1
Vanille Galante: Reflections, Musings & Notes on Context Vanille Galante is the latest addition to the Hermessence collection by the house of Hermès, a more selectively distributed collection of "niche" perfumes composed with the olfactory connoisseur in mind; it is...
Perfume Greed by Francesco Vezzoli, Part the 2nd {Fragrance News}
Following up on a previous announcement on an art project by media artist Francesco Vezzoli devoted to capturing the essence of Greed, the perfume (I wonder where they got the idea of that association from?), here is an early teaser...
Michelle Obama Is Wearing Isabel Toledo - Beauty Fix On Inauguration Day {Beauty Notes}
On Beauty & The Salamander now:• Michelle Obama Is Wearing Isabel Toledo• Beauty Fix on Inauguration Day...
Michelle Obama Is Wearing Isabel Toledo
Michelle Obama in a sparkly gold-looking but in fact green chartreuse Isabel Toledo outfit on Inaguration Day 2009© Larry Downing/Reuters Dress by Isabel ToledoAn initial inkling of what Michelle Obama will wear today at the swearing-in of her husband Barack Obama...
Prettying Up for Inauguration Day 2009
When the economy goes bad, there is always room for hope beauty treatments, it seems. As a sign of these times of change symbolised by Inauguration Day 09 today, people want to look their best in the hope of reflecting...
Free Cosmetics & Fragrances: It's Inauguration Day 2009 {Fragrance News}
Cosmetics counter, Detroit, Michigan, 1943 © Time, Inc. As part of a lawsuit settlement regarding price-fixing, there will be free nationwide distribution of cosmetics and perfumes starting on the morning of Tuesday January 20th 2009, coincidentally on Inauguration Day. Sounds really...
Major News from Balenciaga: The Classics Will Be Re-Edited! {Fragrance News} {New Perfume}
After announcing the return of fashion house Balenciaga as a perfume house last fall, it still remained unclear what form the venture would take. Would Balenciaga simply be used for new creations more adapted to the contemporary market and the...
Yves Saint Laurent La Nuit de l'Homme (2009): The Nocturnal Side of l'Homme {New Perfume} {Celebrity Fragrance} {Men's Cologne}
As previously announced, Yves Saint Laurent will launch a new masculine perfume on March 2, 2009 fronted by French actor Vincent Cassel. In an interview the thespian gave the Votre Beauté magazine of February 2009, we learn that the new...
Parfums Delrae Emotionnelle (2009) {New Perfume}
Parfums DelRae will launch a new perfume inspired by Paris called Emotionnelle (Emotional). The brand founder wanted to refer to the emotions she felt while in the city of lights and perfumes and asked perfumer Michel Roudnitska to transcribe those...