Be is the debut scent for Becker.eshaya, a collaboration between John Eshaya and Kristen Becker:
With a light Italian mandarin top note, and undertones of rose, pink peony and lily of the valley that are finished with white musk, the effect is fresh and clean, not overbearing or intimidating. (via Women's Wear Daily)
Be is available at beautyhabit or at Ron Herman boutiques in Los Angeles. Update: see a review of Becker.eshaya Be.
Davidoff will launch Cool Water Game in Europe in spring 2006…
L’Art et la Matière is a trio of fragrances released earlier this year to coincide with the opening of Guerlain’s newly refurbished flagship boutique. The perfumes were “curated” by Sylvaine Delacourte, Guerlain’s director of fragrance development. Three noses were asked to create fragrances, or, to quote the press release, to “freely express passion for an original, precious raw material”.
Olivier Polge has taken on leather, and the result is Cuir Beluga, with notes of mandarin orange, immortelle flower, leather, amber, heliotrope and vanilla…
Luckyscent has opened a new brick 'n mortar fragrance store, Scent Bar, at 8327 Beverly Blvd in Los Angeles. Holiday hours are Mon-Sat 11:30-7, and Sun 12-5.
New at sephora (France): L'Eau Extrême L'Instant de Guerlain pour Homme.
For many years, my lip care collection consisted solely of drugstore Carmex, Chapsticks and the occasional Bonne Bell Lip Smacker; I could never have imagined paying over $20 for a lip balm. But I’ve learned that sometimes when a really fabulous product comes along, a splurge is completely justified, and Fresh Sugar Lip Balm is one such product.
The quality is absolutely superb. It has a fabulous soft, waxy texture…
The weather here today is cold and grey and dreary. We still have a few inches left of last week’s snow, and there are light flurries swirling outside my window as I type. It is the kind of day when you reach for a comfort fragrance, and so I am wearing two vanilla scents: Vanille Tonka by Parfums de Nicolaï, and Vanille Absolu by Montale.
Vanille Tonka was released in 1997, and has notes of tangerine, lime, cinnamon, Mexican vanilla, tonka bean and frankincense. It starts with dry citrus, very heavy on the lime. The citrus notes fade into a cinnamon sugar accord; the vanilla and tonka bean intensify over the next hour, and are joined by smoky swirls of frankincense…