Note Fragrances is a set of 5 new perfumes from photographer and entrepreneur Sadaf Kherani. The scents are exclusive to luckyscent, and include Racy (bottle shown at right) with notes of orange blossom, violet, jasmin and sandalwood; Dusk, with notes of orange blossom, vanilla, clove, and amber; Diva, with notes of bergamot, lemon, neroli, lily of the valley, cocoa, sandalwood, patchouli, and vanilla musk; Flirt, with notes of bergamot, geranium, violet, carnation and rose de mai…
Perfume shopping online
New at luckyscent: Ebba Miss Marisa Tropical.
Deals from lusciouscargo: Spend $75 or more on the Fracas line and get a free Silkening Body Creme with coupon code FRACASFRENZY. Coupon code MAYDAYS gets 30% off on Pecksniff's, Mathias Paris, Eau d'Italie, Molton Brown and Vie Luxe; coupon code MAYNIGHTS gets 20% off on Santa Maria Novella and Tigresse.
New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Castle Forbes Limes, Pantelleria Maestrale, and the Creative Universe line.
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Liz Claiborne Vintage Soul by Curve, Miss America Pageantry Perfume & more new fragrances
Liz Claiborne will launch Vintage Soul by Curve, a fragrance for women that “explores the femininity of a romanticised era”, this coming July.
Vintage Soul by Curve features notes of apple, cantaloupe, bergamot, cranberry, jasmine, magnolia, linden blossom, vanilla, musk and patchouli. It will be available in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum, 15 ml Parfum and Body Lotion. (via cosmeticsintl)
Pageantry Perfume is a new fragrance inspired by the Miss America Pageant and developed for the Miss America Scholarship Fund…
NST taking a short break…
Apologies for the lack of posts yesterday. I am feeling tired for no good reason, and am simply not in the mood for perfume. Giving my nose & mind a rest, and hope to be back tomorrow with the news and a perfume review.
In the meanwhile, check out this piece in the UK Times Online about the Guerlain Institut de Beaute, where...
Fur-clad French women walk about squirting bits of this and that on to black fans, waving them about, and sniffing in a chic manner.
Image of Guerlain Jicky via Images de Parfums.
Jean-Charles Brosseau Fruit de Bois fragrance review
Following up on last week’s review of Jean-Charles Brosseau’s Thé Brun, today I’ll be reviewing Fruit de Bois, another of the fragrances in the Collection Homme released by Brosseau last year. With notes of bergamot, grapefruit, sage, geranium, nutmeg, vetiver, cedar, sandalwood, juniper and amber, this one could easily have been mistaken for a Serge Lutens.
The bois in question here, and clearly the star of this show, is cedar…