The other day, a reader left a comment stating that a fragrance called "Pois de Senteur" (Sweet Pea) was going to be launched by Annick Goutal in 2014. We just heard back from the brand......
Like each year, French perfume house Fragonard decide to focus on a floral scent. In 2014, they have elected to turn their attention to the delicate olfactory nuances of sweet pea or pois de senteur in French (Lathyrus odoratus), a...
Grasse in the south of France is considered to be the most desirable terroir for some flower cultivars used in perfumery such as Rosa Centifolia and Jasminum Grandiflorum due in part to its climate. Yet, a local newspaper reports...
Clinique have introduced their annual holidays edition of Happy Heart, a perfume originally created in 2003 by perfumers Christophe Laudamiel and Olivier Polge, which was designed to uplift your heart......
Celebrity-perfume culture might take a better hold of conservative-leaning French culture after rapper Booba launches his debut perfume to be called Ünkut. It is named after his line of streetwear fashion created in 2004. The French rapper does not just...
Giant cosmetics company L'Oréal have announced that they will suppress Le Club des Créateurs de Beauté est. 1987, citing structural issue within the worldwide direct-selling business.The France-Germany-Japan based brand was operating with a much more limited catalogue than is usual to see...
Perfumer Christine Nagel, whose name is behind a number of successful perfumes in designer perfumery, such as Miss Dior Chérie by Dior and Narciso Rodriguez for Her (see also her poem "Hora"), will join Jean-Claude Ellena as collaborating in-house nose...
Hermès are preparing to showcase anew a selection of their classic perfumes in a new range with a relooked packaging entiled Les Classiques while accompanyng this event with a new launch in December 2013, a creative yet faithful flanker to Bel...
Karl & Choupette, ForeverThe designer is gaga over his cat, in case you were living under a rock. You need to know that if you want to understand 21st century fashion. Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld is preparing to launch a...
The festive holidays season brings its usual array of fragrance collector editions. One of the ones that stand out this fall-winter 2013 is this new design for La Nuit de L'Homme by Yves Saint Laurent. The bottle has been made...
As habitués of the Vermont Country Store know, the place is a treasure trove of oldies, and comeback perfumes. The team there have brought back a new, vintage fragrance by Bourjois from the 1950s called Ramage in French and...
L'Artisan Parfumeur will bring back Jour de Fête by popular request this coming spring 2014. Inspired by the festive candy "dragée" it was composed by perfumer Olivia Giacobetti in 2003......
In a symbolic move to bring the cause of fragrance closer to the attention of the seat of power of the nation, the International Fragrance Association, North America (IFRA NA) will be hosting a special event on Capitol Hill tomorrow night...
For two evenings, Angelenos will be able to attend two screenings of Perfume The Story of a Murderer by Tom Tykwer. Perfumer Christophe Laudamiel, the creator of the scents for the "scent track" of the movie - it was actually...