Tocca will release a trio of fragrances next month. All are Eau de Parfum versions of scents already available as home fragrances or body products:
Florence has notes of bergamot, grapefruit leaves, blue iris, crushed violet petals, blonde wood and skin musks…
When I was 11, I shared a bedroom with my sister in a singlewide trailer in the country. On the wall above my bed I’d tacked up a poster I thought was truly beautiful: three fluffy, gray kittens sitting in a purple basket. By the time I was in high school, the kittens seemed cheap and precious. I was ready to move on to beauty that was a little less predictable, even if just to a Renoir poster of a girl with a kitten. Perfume is like that, too.
Beauty without ugliness is boring. For instance, grown-up versions of the kitty poster are the paintings of fire-lit cottages strung with wisteria that you see in malls. You look at them, you know what they are about, and you are done with them. They can’t engage you or hold your interest. Lucien Freud once said “I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.” Maybe that’s why his paintings are so beautiful — they are true, so they contain ugliness, even if it is ugliness managed by a genius. But that’s what gives them soul. (Wouldn’t you love to see Lucien Freud and that mall painter guy talking art?)
Except maybe for single flower compositions, perfume is more abstract than figurative painting…
Thierry Mugler will launch a limited edition set of fragrances in conjunction with the upcoming film version of Patrick Suskind's Perfume. Le Parfum...
...comprises a box of 14 olfactive components (7.5ml phials) together with a 15ml bottle of a scent called Aura. This is to be used as the base scent to which the consumer can add the various components. Mugler worked with IFF [International Flavors & Fragrances] to create the set.
Look for Le Parfum in September; 1300 sets will be sold at €500 each. (via cosmeticsint)
Clinique will launch Aromatics Elixir Velvet Sheer, a lighter version of Aromatics Elixir:
…Aromatics Elixir Velvet Sheer is a luxurious liquid perfume gel that smoothes onto the skin. The formula contains no alcohol so fragrance molecules adhere to the skin better, allowing a lighter veil of fragrance that doesn’t evaporate, for a subtle, sensual, long lasting fragrance. The scent opens with top notes of Bulgarian rose essence…
Paestum Rose is the second fragrance release from Eau d’Italie. Described as a “contemporary take on the legendary origins of Italian perfume making”, it takes as its inspiration the roses of Paestum (for background, see here).
Like Eau d’Italie’s eponymous fragrance release of last year, Paestum Rose was created by perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour and is designated as a unisex scent. The notes include davana, cinnamon, black pepper, pink pepper, coriander, black currant buds, Turkish rose, peony, incense, osmanthus, elemi, tea, papyrus, benzoin, myrrh, opoponax, vetiver, patchouli, cedar, wenge wood, amber and white musk.
Paestum Rose starts with a rush of peppery spices…