New from Cacharel: limited edition bottles of Amor Amor and Noa for the holiday season. I fear these might be France-only, but the bottles are so pretty I wanted to post them anyway. (via beaute-conseils)
New from Masaki Matsushima: Mat; M, a limited edition for women with notes of mandarin, grapefruit, bergamot, juniper berries, watermelon, apricot, passionfruit, litchi, woods, orris root and crystal musk. Available now at sephora.
Eau Parfumée au Thé Rouge (Red Tea) was released by Bvlgari this month, and is the third in a series of tea-based perfumes following Eau Parfumée au Thé Vert (1992) and Thé Blanc (2002). It was created by perfumer Olivier Polge, and features notes of bergamot, orange, pink pepper, fig pulp, Roiboos red tea, Yunnan red tea, walnut and musk.
It starts with a heavy, rather sweet blast of citrus with a good dose of pepper. That calms into a sweet mix of tea, fig, and walnut. It is very well blended and none of the individual notes stand out; it smells vaguely figgy, vaguely floral, and has a subtle nutty undertone. The Yunnan red tea, which is simply black tea from Yunnan — in China, fermented teas (e.g., all black teas) are referred to as “red” teas” — is more noticeable than the Rooibos tea to my nose…
Bond no. 9 has a new website.
Miller Harris has revamped their site, and added an online shopping cart.
Musc Maori is fragrance no. 4 in the Parfumerie Generale line up. The notes are bergamot, Cumaru wood, coffee tree blossom, white musk, cocoa bean, abstract flower accord, tonka bean, vanilla scented musk and amber.
Musc Maori starts with, as promised, bergamot, wood, and coffee, but I don’t notice them as separate entities…
New at lacremebeauty: the Abahna bath & body line, with fragrances Cedarwood & Rose Otto, Frankincense & Sweet Orange, and White Grapefruit & May Chang.
News from Susanne Lang at Saks: With any fragrance purchase, get a free 4 ml roll-on in the fragrance of your choice. The Made to Measure Eau de Parfums (Black orchid, Pink grapefruit, Ozone, Green fig, Cashmere, Pashmina, Red ginger, Lotus, and Warm vanilla) are now available in 1 oz bottles for $50 each, as is the latest fragrance in this series: Tamboti wood, with sandalwood, spices, patchouli and amber. A boxed set of the Rich Exotics (Red Ginger, Cashmere & Pashmina) is $120. The Vanilla collection, a boxed set of 4 ml Eau de Parfum roll-ons in Vanilla coconut, Vanilla champagne, White chocolate, Vanilla sugar, Black orchid, Sugar cane, Warm vanilla, Vanilla musk & Vanilla wood is $95. For more information, call Elson Aparicio at 212 940-2422.