Jean Paul Gaultier will launch Fleur du Male next March:
The fragrance was created by Francis Kurkdjian, the author of Gaultier’s 1995 debut Le Male, and features the notes of white flowers in an intensely floral jus that is for the man ‘who has nothing to hide’, according to the company…
I love a good bargain, but you wouldn’t know it from this site — it has been ages since we’ve managed to include anything in the budget perfume category around here. In general, I am buying less and less all the time, regardless of price. My perfume collection already overfloweth, and the bigger it gets, the harder it is for me to convince myself that something new is full-bottle-worthy. But sometimes you just feel the need to spend, even if your wallet is somewhat less than full, and hence my latest acquisition: Encens Mystic.
Encens Mystic is one of the solid perfumes from the Crazylibellule & The Poppies Shanghaijava Collection. These are nifty little 5 gram twist-ups in bright paper packaging, bigger than a lipstick but still small enough to throw in your purse…
A French court has ordered Guerlain to stop marketing Insolence in its current packaging:
Judge Claude Vallet, who deals with urgent cases at Paris’s Court of First Instance, found that the packaging by Serge Mansau, composed of three half-spheres atop each other, was too similar to a design registered by Jean-Claude Cardiet of Paris firm Cardiet Design…
New at lafcony: Eau d'Italie Bois d'Ombrie & Sienne l'Hiver.
New at nordstrom: Ralph Lauren Polo Double Black.
New at scentiments: Givenchy Amarige Mariage.
Yves Rocher’s Hoggar fragrance for men, launched last year in France, is now available at US stores.
The fragrance was created by perfumer Marie-Aude Couture and is described as an “ultra-masculine, oriental woody scent, evocative of desert dunes and winds…” Notes include bergamot, tobacco, tonka bean…