Comptoir Sud Pacifique will celebrate their 30th anniversary with a new fragrance, Vanille Extreme, described as “sweet, warm and spicy”. Coming soon to beautycafe and sephora.
Update: Comptoir Sud Pacifique Vanille Extreme is available in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette, and the notes include Tahitian Vanilla, heliotrope, milk and spices…
Vanilles du Monde is a set of five vanilla-based Eaux de Toilette from La Maison de la Vanille. Each of the fragrances focuses on vanilla from a specific country, and each is given a theme; Eau Noire du Mexique is called “the powdery accent” and has notes of bergamot, rose, jasmine, vanilla, iris, opoponax, tonka bean, and patchouli.
Eau Noire du Mexique starts with subtle spice notes and lots of bergamot…
Gift with purchase from perfumebay: spend $50 and get a Dolce & Gabbana Sicily travel set with coupon code FALL2005, good through 10/21. New at the store: Dior Homme and Jennifer Lopez Live.
New at sephora: Calvin Klein ck one scene; Narciso Rodriguez Eau de Parfum; Guerlain L'Instant Eau de Noel; Donna Karan Be Delicious Message of Hope; Fresh Memoirs of a Geisha; a Bvlgari Coffret with Pour Femme, Rose Essentielle and Voile de Jasmin; and Yves Saint Laurent Cinema Gold Collector.
You can watch the new television ad for Jennifer Lopez Live at the New Woman website. (via revolution)
More on the upcoming fragrance from Marilyn Manson: he says that his scent was inspired by "the fashion-art collaborations between Salvador Dali and Elsa Schiaparelli". (via irishexaminer, link no longer working, sorry!)
With notes of bergamot, cedarwood, coffee, vanilla, patchouli and lavender, Bond no. 9 enters the world of gourmand unisex fragrance with the triumphant New Haarlem. A warm, rich, intoxicating aroma by perfumer Maurice Roucel, this 2003 launch is sure to please those looking for a totally original Bond.
The scent opens with a rich, dark, and creamy blast of coffee, vanilla and cedar. As the scent relaxes on the skin, a slightly herbal and powdery, albeit very faint, lavender note begins to surface, and that’s pretty much the entire story. Not as heavy or cloying as it might sound, the scent actually dries down with a very subtle sillage…