New at aedes: Anthousa holiday edition diffusers & votives.
On clearance at beautyhabit: Clos d' Aguzon EdTs, selected Comptoir Sud Pacifique refill bottles, Dinner by Bobo, selected scents from Molinard, Le Jardin Retrouvé and Medicea Terre d' Orient.
New at lacremebeauty: Susanne Lang Summer Dreams set, i Profumi di Firenze Vaniglia del Madagascar.
New at sephora: Givenchy Amarige Harvest.
Bugatti Homme, a "floral, fruity aromatic" fragrance, will launch this month in France to tie in with the new Bugatti Veyron 16.4 car. (via cosmeticnews)
And another fragrance tie in: In February, L Eau de Parfum will launch at Apothia. The new scent is licensed by the Showtime cable series "The L Word". (via New York Times)
There is no definitive, universally accepted perfume classification. Various charts, tables, and diagrams have been circulating among fragrance manufacturers since the 1970s, and you’re probably familiar with Michael Edwards’ Fragrance Wheel, introduced back in 1992. The French, of course, have a classification of their own: it’s described at length in the bilingual booklet Classification des Parfums et Terminologie, published by the Comité Français du Parfum in 2001.
The French project started in 1983, when six members of the Société Technique des Parfumeurs de France (now Société Française des Parfumeurs) got together to create a fragrance classification for the perfume industry. Raymond Chaillan, Yuri Gutsatz, Jean Kerléo, Raymond Pouliquen, Guy Robert, and Henri Sebag came up with five fragrance families: Floral, Chypre, Fougere, Amber, and Leather. They divided each family into subcategories (except for the Fougeres and the Leathers), and created an appendix with famous fragrances, categorized according to this new system. The first edition of Classification des Parfums was published in 1984, and was limited to feminine fragrances…
Bleecker Street is the 24th and most recent in Bond no. 9’s series of perfumes celebrating famous neighborhoods in New York City. Bleecker Street is a fashionable shopping destination in the West Village, and also the location of the newest Bond no. 9 boutique. The fragrance was created by perfumer David Apel and features notes of violet leaf, cassis, thyme, jasmine, cedar, cinnamon, oakmoss, suede, patchouli, amber and vanilla.
Early reports that the Bleecker Street fragrance would pay tribute to the Magnolia Bakery (initially famous for their cupcakes, now famous for being featured on Sex & the City) down the street led me to assume that it would be a sweet, dessert-like gourmand. That is not quite what it turns out to be. Bond no. 9 is calling it a “woody gourmand oriental”, which is somewhat closer to the mark…
Miryana Babic of i Profumi di Firenze will be making a personal appearance at Barneys in Beverly Hills this Saturday. She will have fragrance samples on hand, and will also be holding 2 drawings: one for a bottle of Spezie de Medici, and one for a "sneak peek" set of purse sprays of their upcoming 2006 fragrance releases, to be delivered in advance of the official launch. Stop by between noon and 5 pm.
L'Occitane is offering 10% off all gift sets. I'm not sure how long this offer lasts, but you can see the current selection on their website.