Brazilian artist Romero Britto will expand his fragrance collection this November with Britto Azul, featuring notes of orange sorbet, lemoncello, apple blossom, ginger, white musk and white birch. (via Women's Wear Daily)
Coming in September: a boxed trio of candles from Diptyque, including the scents Baies, Feuille de Lavande, and Figuier. (via postcard from Diptyque)
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In honor of my recent return from what was probably my last beach vacation of the summer, today I am wearing Aqua Motu by Comptoir Sud Pacifique. Aqua Motu was originally released under the name Motu in 1992, and I believe the fragrance was reformulated when it was renamed. The notes for the current version are helychrisum, marine notes, lily of the valley, warm sand, and kelp.
I have never been a big fan of marine fragrances, but I adore Aqua Motu. It smells absolutely nothing like the mid-Atlantic beach where I now spend my summer vacations, and truth be told, it probably doesn’t really smell like an actual beach anywhere. All the same, in a way that I can’t exactly explain, it is an almost perfect, filtered-by-memory olfactory snapshot of the beach in La Jolla where I used to live…
CB I Hate Perfume has added a sample program. Samples are invidually priced (most are between $1.50 and $4.00) and shipping is included.
New at luckyscent: Frank no. 2, Brandy, CdG series 5 Sherbet solids and Divine for men.
New at parfum1: Guess for women.
New at scentiments: Opium Fleur de Shanghai, Moschino Couture, and Z Zegna for men.
More on the upcoming release for men from Christian Dior, Dior Homme:
The core ingredient in the Dior Homme fragrance, developed with Olivier Polge of IFF, is the iris flower. This is blended with cocoa and amber to give the scent a powdery accord and other elements include sage, lavender and bergamot essential oils for an aromatic accord…