Fragrance News Archives

 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,...

  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...

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...

 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...

Chanel No. 5, New China Series, 2007 by Chinese artist Ma Jun -- The Chanel No. 5 bottle is so iconic it appears still recognizable in the glazed Chinese ceramic medium. (A bottle of No. 5 is said to be...

The bottle and leather casing for Vanille Galante interprets vanilla as suggestive of the color whiteThis is a follow-up to our previous article on Vanille Galante, the upcoming new opus by Jean-Claude Ellena in his Hermessence series. As stated earlier...

Rich Hippie whose tag line is "Organic, Wildcrafted Perfumes" have launched a new packaging option for their scents consisting in smaller 1/8 oz roll-ons to be slipped in your purse or pocket......

Parisian perfumer Stéphanie de Bruijn has created a new bespoke fragrance business whose core mission is to provide the same kind of service one can get from Guerlain or Cartier but at more democratically priced rates.After watching the Obama campaign...

Chergui, a best-seller of the Serge Lutens non-export range (the bell-jar collection) is now available in the export range. It is priced at 79 € for 50 ml.Via Beauté Addict...

Belatedly but still interestingly we learn that French niche brand Memo launched two organic companion scents, certified Ecocert, to their latest release Jannat. It looks like what the Mediterranean diet is to vegetarian diet, that is less purist in terms...

Body-care news from L'Occitane en Provence, which will introduce new scents in January 2009 in its Shea Butter range: rose, vanilla, frangipani, ylang-ylang and acacia. Each item is priced at $21 for 3.4 oz. The original Shea Butter cream gets...

The most Byronian of French perfume brands, By Kilian, have announced that they will launch an eighth scent in September 2009. Details are kept at a minimum for now. The cat came out partially out of the bag however as...

Italian video artist Francesco Vezzoli has decided to illustrate the theme of greed in the art world with the support of a faux perfume commercial for Greed shot by none other than movie director Roman Polanski and featuring actresses Natalie...