Un Jardin sur le Toit (A Roof-Top Garden) is the latest opus in the Jardin collection by Hermès. It might be the last one according to perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena who has expressed qualms about the more commercial orientation the...
March 2011 Archives
Hermès' Fourth Garden Perfume Launches in Asia -- Jean-Claude Ellena Says It Might be the Last One {Fragrant Reading}
In-house perfumer for Hermès Jean-Claude Ellena is on a whirlwind tour in Asia to promote his latest composition, Un Jardin sur le Toit (A Garden on a Roof Top), whose light and transparent yet rich and variegated texture seems...
Humiecki & Graef Blask (2011): About Trust {New Fragrance}
Humiecki and Graef have announced that they will introduce a new perfume at Esxence 2011 in Milan (March 31 - April 3.) The fragrance is called Blask and is said to be "a fragrance about trust for women and men."...
Emanuel Ungaro Diva Rose (2011) {New Perfume}
Fashion brand Emanuel Ungaro will launch a new flanker to one of the iconic fragrances of the 80s, Diva. For the Holidays 2010, a collector mother-of-pearl edition had been issued. Diva Rose is a new perfume composition whose name pays...
A Retrospective of Elizabeth Taylor in Fragrance Advertising {Perfume Images & Ads}
Some people seem to be eternal but then one day they bid you adieu. Elizabeth Taylor passed away yesterday and if her flame seemed to flicker in the wind, looking back at her body of work only helps reinforce the...
Scented Quote of the Day, about White Diamonds by Elizabeth Taylor
We're memorializing Elizabeth Taylor through fragrance. Here is a quote we found which reveals how much of a leading engine Liz Taylor was in shaping the celebrity-fragrance market thanks to her charisma and unique pull. In 1991, when White Diamonds...
Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79 {Fragrance News - News Flash}
Elizabeth Taylor poses with her Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 65th Annual Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on March 29, 1993 in Los Angeles, California. Actress Elizabeth Taylor died today at age 79 of a cardiac arrest. One...
Histoires de Parfums The Scent of Departure Collection (2011): Bring a Scented Souvenir Home {New Fragrances}
Histoires de Parfums are teaming up with airport duty-free shops to showcase their new collection entitled The Scent of Departure. The library is dedicated to bottling the scents of each and every imaginable city in the world that is an...
Nicolaï Week-End à Deauville (2011): A Perfumer Reworks a Formula...When Muguet Becomes a Political Note {New Perfume}
Two years ago in 2009, perfumer Patricia de Nicolaï founder and the principal nose for Nicolaï composed a limited-edition of a new fragrance called Week-End à Deauville (Weekend in Deauville.) I reviewed it here. In the spring of 2011, a...
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill Fragrance DVDs: Not Just a Duo, a Duet Too {Fragrance News - Limited Editions}
Husband and wife country singers Tim McGraw and Faith Hill will release a special limited-edition of Fragrance DVDs at Walmart from April 2011. "Each distinctive Faith Hill and Tim McGraw set includes a classic fragrance paired with a limited...
Tim McGraw Silver (2010): Urban Cowboy {Newly Referenced Fragrance} {Celebrity Scent} {Perfume Images & Ads}
In the summer of 2010, country star Tim McGraw released his third perfume called McGraw Silver. It came after the reported success of McGraw (2008) and Southern Blend (2009.) The message of the cologne was to play up to the...
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Vert pour Madame (2011) {New Perfume}
Colorado-based independent perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz aka DSH has launched a new creation called Vert pour Madame (Green for Madam.) It was reportedly inspired by the "lush" and "radiant" green floral chypre compositions popular in the late 1970s and early...
Memo Shams: The Last Word On Oud Has Not Been Uttered Yet (2011) {New Fragrance}
With its latest release Shams meaning "Sun" in Arabic, Parisian niche perfumery Memo seems to be stressing the point that oud or agarwood is not to be viewed anymore as a material signalling an effort at originality but rather as...
10 Hairstyles that Show Off your Shoulders, Spring 2011 Nail Polishes, Busy Mom Tips {Beauty Notes}
Julianne Hough; Wild Blue nail polish by Estée Lauder; Amanda Peet The editors at Daily Makeover have meditated upon some beauty issues recently and decided that 1) it was time to show off your shoulders ladies 2) be in the know...
Lady Gaga Liked To Wear... Guess What Scents {Celebrity & Fragrance}
Lady Gaga dishes about her beauty routine in the March 28th issue of People magazine. Apparently, she is not ready to be the spokesperson for a makeup remover as she confesses to sleeping every night with makeup on. She will...