ST Dupont will launch Blanc for women, the counterpart to Noir Pour Homme, this month:
Blanc is a white floral fragrance composed by Françoise Caron of Quest. It comes in the same “lighter” design bottle as Noir, but in white glass. (via cosmeticnews)
Jaeger will launch their first fragrance next year, Jaeger London:
Described as an adult floral…
L’Artisan introduced Les Epices de la Passion, a coffret with three spiced “love potions”, in 2002. I’ve been having an on-again, off-again love affair with Safran Troublant since I first smelled it (more about that tomorrow), but the other two fragrances, Piment Brûlant and Poivre Piquant, I pretty much ignored after trying them briefly on test strips some time ago. Both scents were created by perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour, and since he is seriously in the running for my own little parallel-universe award for Perfumer of the Year (and I’m sure he is quite excited about it too), I thought it would be worth giving them more serious attention.
Piment Brûlant was inspired by the Aztec drink xocolatl, a bitter mixture of chocolate and cornmeal spiked with chili peppers, cinnamon, achiote and other spices; the Aztec emperor Montezuma reputedly drank up to 50 cups every day from a golden goblet…
"Woman of a Scent", in yesterday's New York Times, looks at the advertising campaign behind the recent With Love Hilary Duff fragrance release, while "Please Let It Be Whale Vomit, Not Just Sea Junk" (really!) recounts one woman's quest to find out if a huge lump of something found by the sea is really ambergris. Thanks to Ruth for the link!
Can humans follow a scent trail as well as dogs? Maybe.
Noticed how nice it smells inside a Sony store lately?
Through Christmas, the chain is filling its stores with a designer scent called "Seasons Greetings," which also has undertones of gingerbread, as a way to evoke happy memories in customers and put them in the shopping spirit.
Read the rest in The Washington Post.
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I’m staring at my bottle of Rochas Femme right now, and try as I might, I can’t see its reputed resemblance to Mae West. To me, it looks a lot more like Mighty Mouse. Not only does Femme’s bottle not look like Mae West, but its fragrance wings past the fusty, comic actress and lands straight on Marilyn Monroe: Marilyn as she rises from an afternoon nap, intimate, warm, hair mussed.
Femme smells voluptuous and intensely personal. It is the smell of your mother on her still-warm bed when you were a girl, or the scent that a maid in a posh resort shakes from the sheets every day…