Here's your chance to meet with Josie Natori to discover and/or discuss her new fragrance Natori, a subtle and complex composition introduced in 2009 which does this rare thing nowadays: take the time to unfold on your skin and evolve...
May 2010 Archives
Afghanistan Orange Blossom by 7 Virtues: Created to Empower Women (2010) {New Perfume}
©Glenn BrownCanadian entrepreneur and author Barb Stegemann has decided to empower Afghanistan women by encouraging the cultivation of floral crops to replace the poppy crops destined to the opium drug trade. It's not always easy as past experiences show. Her...
Pine-Sol is Given the Royal Perfume Treatment {Fragrance Images & Ads}
If fine perfumery is more and more open to welcoming detergent notes and in particular really soapy clean white musk notes in their perfumes, the fragrance toiletry branch of the industry is also blurring the limits with more and more...
Perfumer Véronique Nyberg Talks about the Ropes of Fragrance-Making {Fragrant Reading}
The Hindu interviews perfumer Véronique Nyberg of IFF about the creative process in perfumery. The nose created most recently Trésor in Love (with Dominique Ropion) (2010), Amor Amor Delight (2010) (with Carlos Benaïm and Anne Flipo), Moschino Glamour (2008)......
Manly Old Spice Commercial: A Stick that Smells like Wild Flowers & Shame {Perfume Images & Ads}
Old Spice helps make fun of or solidify stereotypes about manhood in this commercial -- I bet some take it first degree. Flowers take a beating meanwhile. This is so funny because in fact Old Spice started out as a...
Jessica Simpson to Smell even More Sensual and Alluring with Upcoming Fancy Nights {New Fragrance} {Celebrity Scent}
After the launch in 2008 of her debut fragrance Fancy, followed in 2009 by Fancy Love, Jessica Simpson is now turning to a more mysterious and romantic feel with the new upcoming Fancy Nights. The perfume to launch this summer...
Calvin Klein to Launch New Women's Perfume with Diane Kruger {New Perfume} {Celebrity Fragrance}
Calvin Klein is turning once more to the charisma of beautiful celebrities after Kate Moss (Obsession), Scarlet Johansson (Eternity Moment) and Eva Mendes (Secret Obsession) to help them launch their next perfume to debut in the fall of 2010... Diane...
Guerlain Cologne du Parfumeur (2010): The Perfumer, The Cologne, The Soap and The Zeitgeist {Perfume Review & Musings}
The new Guerlain opus, Cologne du Parfumeur (The Perfumer's Eau de Cologne) opens on an opaline-like "white cologne" effect -- what Guerlain call an "eau blanche"* effect for Eau de Cologne du Coq (1894) -- one which has always...
Mila Schön Time Collection '60,'70,'80,'90,'00 (2009) {New Perfumes} {Fashion Notes}
Last winter 2009, the perfume brand Mila Schön launched a range of 5 fragrances meant to retrace each of the decades that marked the career in fashion of the Italian designer (ca.1916 -2008). The Time Collection includes '60,'70,'80,'90 and '00...
Perle di Bianca Profumo (2009): Inspired by Bianca Cappello {New Perfume} {Celebrity Fragrance}
Last fall, a perfume cultural project was born inspired by a tragic love story set in Renaissance Italy, Perle di Bianca (Bianca's pearls). The fragrance aims to capture the personality and destiny of Bianca Cappello (1542-1587), a patrician Venitian woman...
Acqua di Parma Blu Mediterraneo Bergamotto di Calabria (2010) {New Perfume} + Note on Bergaptene
If you are starting to looking forward to wearing lemon-y scents, there is a new fragrance in the family. Acqua di Parma, the brand deservedly famous for its Colonia, released a new perfume in their Blu Mediterraneo line called Bergamotto...
Tubéreuse by Caron (2003): Bitter Dolorist Tuberose, or The Lady Macbeth {Perfume Review & Musings} {Men's Cologne}
Tubéreuse by Caron was composed by in-house perfumer Richard Fraysse in 2003. It is advertised as the newest of the so-called "parfums fontaines" (fountain perfumes), the more selective and luxurious range of pure extraits at Caron boutiques, which is...
Happy May Day from The Scented Salamander!
Fresh muguet from Paris this morning. I think I am going to buck the trend and not wear a lily of the valley perfume today because I prefer to have a clear nose to be able to smell it on...