La grande dame terrible of British fashion Vivienne Westwood has released a new perfume called Boudoir Jouy to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the original Boudoir launched in 1998. The new composition is inspired by Madame de Pompadour and the...
May 2009 Archives
Zadig et Voltaire Tome 1 La Purete (2009) - Part 2: Patchoulait {Perfume Review} {New Fragrance}
Angel with Lit Wing by Joyce Tenneson, 2000.You can read part 1: Scent of a Fallen Angel If you are interested in shades of olfactory whites, Tome 1 La Pureté is well worth consideringIf you like the idea of applying...
Gordon Brown's Glam Routine Revealed + Extra Grooming Tips
For queen and country. An assistant of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown inadvertently left, amongst other things, a document describing Brown's embellishing routine in a taxi cab. The press now also want to help with his beauty needs and are...
Travel with the Scent of Home Sweet Home {The 5th Sense in the News}
Interesting concept. You can now create your own olfactory bubble while away from home. A booking site for hotel rooms proposes a service that allows customers to travel with a bottled scent of their most familiar surroundings. It can involve...
Chanel No5 Retrospective III: Salvador Dali Appears on a Flacon of No5 {Perfume Images}
The flacon of No 5 as part of XXth century art iconographyTwo icons meet, not fortuitously : the Dali moustache and the Chanel No5 bottle But before that, Coco Chanel and Salvador DaliDali's nose disappeared given up in sacrifice to...
Interview with Jean-Paul Guerlain & Thierry Wasser in Wallpaper {Fragrant Reading}
Wallpaper has quite the comprehensive interview with perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain and his successor Thierry Wasser. It is almost touching to see Wasser's sense of intelligent humility, faced with a historic treasury of knowledge and monument such as Jean-Paul Guerlain. There...
Victoria's Secret Sexy Little Things Noir Launch with Adriana Lima (2009) {New Fragrance} {Celebrity Perfume}
Victoria's Secret have launched yet another feminine boudoir perfume meant to highlight their lingerie collection called Sexy Little Things Noir. It features - readers of Proust will appreciate - a floral note of Cattelaya orchid, which was turned into a...
By Kilian Arabian Nights Pure Oud & Back to Black Aphrodisiac (2009) {New Fragrances - New Line}
By Kilian have followed up on a previous announcement to say that they will launch two new perfumes this year. As previously reported about, there is a tobacco fragrance composed by perfumer Calice Becker of Givaudan due out in September...
Chanel No5 Retrospective II: Sem Makes Fun of Coco Chanel {Perfume Images}
Here is a caricature of Coco Chanel by Sem (Georges Goursat) dating from 1923 which makes fun of the great couturière. He turns her first name into a dirge, in reference to the origins of her nickname: Coco stuck with...
Happy Mother's Day: I Promise to be a Good Mother & Mother Always Used Too Much Perfume {Scented Images}
Happy Mother's Day to our US-based readers!I Promise to be a Good Mother by Jamie Diamond, 2007Today, I found two images that I am posting about for slightly different reasons. I Promise to be a Good Mother by Jamie Diamond...
Daybreak, Guernica, Serge Lutens La Myrrhe, L'Artisan Parfumeur La Haie Fleurie du Hameau {The Readers Talk Back}
We got a really interesting comment by a reader named Nlb/Angela on a post published in May 2006, so I decided to reproduce it in the section The Readers Talk Back.The two posts that preceded that comment are:On Comparing PerfumesOn...
When Chanel Used to Mention Prices in Commercials for the No.5: The Sophistication Learning Curve {Perfume Ads}
I was foraging You Tube for some retro Chanel No. 5 ads to add some historic perspective on the advertising of the most famous perfume in the world, when I came upon two that made me smile. What you see...
Win 2 Free Tickets to the Makeup Show NYC May 17-18 2009 & Bring a Guest {Ask Marie-Helene}
Thanks to the folks at the Makeup Show NYC, The Scented Salamander/Beauty and the Salamander/mimifroufrou.com readers have the possibility to enter a drawing for two free tickets to attend the Makeup Show in New York City on Sunday May 17...
Paris Hilton Siren Teaser 2, Parfums 137 Hollywood Stromboli 1950 {New Fragrances - News Bites}
• Following up on Paris Hilton Teaser # 1, here is PH Teaser # 2. We can now reveal that...drum roll please...the next perfume by Paris Hilton, Siren, is a "creamy tropical floral" to be released in "June-July" (via press...
Donna Karan NY Love from New York for Her & Him (2009) {New Fragrances}
DKNY will launch a duo of fragrances for women and men in July 2009 called Love from New York inspired by "the excitement and energy of New York," and "that spirited, urbane, yet young spirit, and the promise that in...