New at aedes: Esteban Eaux de Toilette in Cedre, Tonka and Pivoine; Eau d'Italie Paestum Rose; Jacques Garcia room scents in Tuberose and Myrrh.
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Juicy Couture, the first perfume from the Juicy Couture casual-wear line, is to launch early next month. The fragrance was created by perfumer Harry Fremont, and features watermelon, mandarin, pink passionfruit, marigold, green apple, water hyacinth, crushed leaves, tuberose absolute, wild rose, princess lily, caramel crème brulée, vanilla, precious woods and patchouli.
Juicy Couture starts with sweet — make that very sweet — fruits, heavy on the watermelon. As it dries down, the sweetness is cut momentarily by the water hyacinth and a vague touch of green, but it is amped up again as the white florals take the stage, and again later as the caramel and vanilla come into play. The tuberose predominates only for a short time, after that, it smells like indistinct white florals. The base is rather light, at least in the Eau de Parfum concentration, and is painted in tones that are more cool than warm, so despite the sweetness and the caramel crème brulée and vanilla, it does not have the feel of a gourmand scent…
Hugo Boss will launch Boss Femme, a new Eau de Parfum, in late August:
Opening with tangerine, black current and freesia, the fragrance flows into a heart of jasmine and fleur de lys…
Having never been much of a lavender fan, it was with some trepidation that I approached Lavandula. Reminding myself that I had been won over time and time again by Penhaligon’s other fragrances (Hammam Bouquet, Endymion, etc) I also faced the first sniff with a modicum of optimism: would this be yet another yawner, or something unique and surprising? The answer: Whoa! With notes of basil, canella, pepper, lavender, lily, clary sage, musk, vanilla, amberwood and tonka bean, Lavandula is like nothing I’ve experienced before.
Lavender. The word conjures images of satin eye pillows, Yardley soap, and bitter, buttery blossoms. Let’s face it, lavender hardly tops anyone’s list as most provocative note, especially as a main note. There are exceptions of course, most notably Caron’s Pour un Homme and Lutens Encens et Lavande, but lavender just seems so…well, dull to me. So you can imagine my shock when I tested Lavandula and found not another boring elixir, but a great, heady brew of herbs and musk that strikingly portrays this most mundane of notes…
Yves Rocher has launched Voile d’Ambre, a 2005 fragrance release by perfumer Olivier Pescheux, in the United States. Voile d’Ambre Eau de Parfum is in the Secrets D’Essences line; the fragrance is an Oriental Woody Amber with notes of Italian green mandarin, cardamom, myrrh, incense, opoponax, Madagascar vanilla, patchouli, and sandalwood…