Alexander McQueen will launch MyQueen this fall:
The fragrance has been developed around four, instead of three olfactory levels, signed Anne Flipo and Dominique Ropion of IFF. Suave notes of sweet almond and violet open the scent…
Hermes Ambre Narguile (Hermessence Collection) ~ fragrance review
Like the others in the Hermessence line of fragrances (see Rose Ikebana and Poivre Samarcande), Ambre Narguile was created by Hermès house nose Jean-Claude Ellena and released in 2004. Ambre Narguile is meant to evoke cashmere, and features notes of benzoin, labdanum, musk, vanilla, caramel, honey, sugared tonka bean, grilled sesame seeds, cinnamon, rum, coumarine and white orchids.
All of the Hermessence perfumes are foody to one degree or another; Ambre Narguile is the dessert course of the quartet…
Sale at L'Occitane
Thank you to Debra for the news that L'Occitane is having a sale, with items marked down from 20% to 75% off.
Benetton Cumbia Colors, Disney That’s So Raven ~ new fragrances
Benetton will launch Cumbia Colors fragrances for women and men this September:
Cumbia Colors for women, created by IFF’s Béatrice Piquet and Alain Astori, starts with a red fruit accord, followed by a floral note (cyclamen, lily) and ending with a sensual woody, vanilla, musky dry down. Its men’s counterpart [shown], signed by Drom’s Barbara Zoebelein, begins with a spicy celery, anise accord, with a melon and eucalyptus mix in the heart, while woody and musky notes closes the olfactory phrase. (via cosmeticnews)
Disney will launch a new fragrance, That's So Raven, this September to tie-in with its hit show of the same name. The fragrance features vanilla bean, white lily, lemon zest, and musk. (via Yahoo Finance link expired, sorry!)
Hermes Poivre Samarcande (Hermessence Collection) ~ fragrance review
As long as we are talking about the Hermessence line from Hermès (see yesterday’s review of Rose Ikebana), I thought I would pull out my sample of Poivre Samarcande and give it a real try on skin. A quick smell on a test strip last fall had convinced me that it was too masculine a fragrance for me to pull off, but test strips are such a waste of time that I don’t know why I bother. Poivre Samarcande is meant to mimic velvet, and has notes of pepper, chili pepper, oak, cedar, chinese moss, and musk…