Masaki Matsushima, the Japanese fashion designer, launched the Mat; line of fragrances in 2000. Mat; Very Male, a surprisingly warm and subtle fragrance from a designer known for his fresh citrus and aquatic scents, is his first oriental, and this time the star of the composition is sambuca. The notes include bergamot, aquatic freshness accord, sambuca, lotus flower, bamboo, precious woods, patchouli, liquorice wood and white cedar…
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Fragrance Week 2005, sponsored by The Fragrance Foundation, will be held October 17-22 in New York and San Francisco:
Bloomingdale’s, Sephora, Barneys New York, Macy’s and Lord & Taylor are hosting events in New York. In San Francisco — where events kick-off at city hall — Sephora, Macy’s and Nordstrom play host. (via gcimagazine)
Stella McCartney has released Stella Rose Absolute, described as an “Eau de Parfum Intense” version of her eponymous fragrance, with notes of rose, peony, mandarin, rose absolute, and amber. Now available at liberty in the UK and sephora in the US…
The Strange Invisible Perfumes Signature Collection comprises 18 fragrances created by Alexandra Balahoutis. 10 of them will be on counter at Barneys in October. All are in parfum concentration, and let’s just get the bad news out of the way: they are not cheap. They run $185 for 1/4 oz.
The good news: these are well-crafted and unusual perfumes. I did not love all of them, but not a one bored me, and I found a few of them startlingly beautiful. They are not the sort of thing that you buy to impress your co-workers at a business meeting or to attract a mate; they are perfume-lover’s perfumes, made for people who like to smell things. They require patience: several of them have difficult top notes, and develop very slowly, over a period of some hours…