The makeup brand Benefit has come up with a particularly creative and whimsical idea for creating a trio of fragrances embodying three different feminine universes. The label imagined three girls who are neighbors, as in a Georgian-styled twist on Friends....
April 2009 Archives
Spring Notes: White Broom {Scented Thoughts}
Springtime is generous with floral and fresh notes. Like a natural calendar that unfolds over the weeks, you can discover a variety of delicate to heady notes when you put your mind to it wherever you are, at the florist's,...
Diesel Only The Brave Split Screen TV Commercial: Heart, Mind, Nerve {Perfume Images & Adverts}
A viral marketing ad campaign for Diesel's new cologne Only The Brave (see also launch party) features a creative split-screen commercial, based on 3 distinct videos, aiming to play mind games with the viewer "...bizarre scenes that will leave your...
L'Artisan Parfumeur Parfum de Feuilles {Home Fragrance Review} {Fresh Notebook - Green Freshness}
Continuing my exploration of green freshness in contrast to the more widespread canvases of aquatic and airy freshness which as I pointed out earlier are more attention-drawing nowadays, I wanted to call attention to a home fragrance by L'Artisan Parfumeur...
Fendi Palazzo Discontinued After 18 Months {Fragrance News - News Bites}
Model Raquel Zimmermann poses for Fendi Palazzo, via mes-parfums.com.The decision to axe Fendi Palazzo was announced on February the 10th 2009 by Women's Wear Daily. The perfume had benefited from glamorous advertising shot by Karl Lagerfeld, a bottle design to...
Chanel Cristalle Eau Verte (2009): Unfettered Flanker, or The New Freshness of Magnolias {Perfume Review} {Fresh Notebook}
Chanel Cristalle Eau Verte Eau de Toilette Concentrée is the latest flanker to the original Cristalle Eau de Toilette. Notes are: Sicilian lemon, bergamot, neroli, jasmine, a magnolia accord, and abstract white flowers.The BackgroundThe original Cristalle Eau de Toilette...
Upcoming New Perfumes in 2009 {Fragrance News - News Bites}
• Lorenzo Villoresi creator of the best-seller Teint de Neige has released the name of his new fragrance to be introduced in September 2009: it is titled Malenostrom Mare Nostrum......
Yves Rocher Green Summer (2009) {New Fragrance}
Just as I have been delving in green leafy sensations of freshness with Sous Le Buis and Géranium pour Monsieur, both which carry a note of nostalgia (as do other green scents I have in mind) here comes the announcement...
Beauty Interview with Perfumer Lyn Harris in Elle
Elle France has interviewed perfumer Lyn Harris of Miller Harris, a London-based fragrance house, to ask her about her beauty secrets and favorite routines. The Q & A is in French but you can spot all the good addresses that...
Christian Dior Escale a Pondichery (2009): Hedonistic Cologne {Perfume Review}
The new Escale à Pondichéry by Christian Dior was recently launched in India and is due out in July 2009 in the US market. It is the second stopover in the Christian Dior Escales collection inaugurated last year with...
PSA about Underage Drinking: Alcoholic Beverages Try To Look Like Perfume Bottles {Cultural Notes}
The Hamptons Gin looks like the latest perfume launch for teenagers and conveniently strikes out the bar in the "G". The Tequila 1921 bottle looks like an old-fashioned Florida-Water type of perfume flacon with the word "Tequila" covered by sand...
Perfumer Sidonie Lancesseur {Directory of Perfumers, Artistic Directors & Fragrance Designers}
Perfumer Sidonie Lancesseur is a graduate of ISIPCA and works for fragrance company Robertet.Her creations include:Parfums Grès Marlene Dietrich My Passion (with Jean-Christophe Herault) (2007)Parfums Grès Marlene Dietrich My Dream (with Jean-Christophe Herault) (2007)By Kilian Cruel Intentions (2007)By Kilian Straight...
Chantal Thomass Makeup Collection by Nivea
Lingerie designer Chantal Thomass has partnered with Nivea to create a limited-edition makeup line that will be available for about a year. It is due out in July 2009 in 16 European countries. This is the first time that Nivea...
Perfumer Emilie Bouge {Directory of Perfumers, Artistic Directors & Fragrance Designers}
Emilie Bouge is a perfumer working for fragrance company Charabot in Grasse. She comes from a family of perfumers, like many of her colleagues. Although she had initially wanted to major in mathematics and physics as an undergraduate, she...
Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle Geranium pour Monsieur (2009): Brash Masculine Floral or a Green Fougere Gone Black {Perfume Review}
As reported last time, Géranium pour Monsieur is the latest Editions de Parfums launch due out in May 2009. Evolving from a brash and super fresh opening to further green crushed freshness then floralcy and dark woodland obscurity, it is...