Hierbas de Ibiza will launch Colonia Solida, a solid perfume based on its classic Eau de Cologne, this fall. The limited edition is in a sterling silver box and retails for $375.
Lindsay Lohan is rumored to be in talks with Coty to develop her own perfume line. Mind you, we're still at the rumor stage. (both above via Women's Wear Daily)
Beautyhabit has opened a new brick 'n mortar store at 2991 East Thousand Oaks Blvd in Thousand Oaks, California. Store hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 to 6, and the telephone is 805-496-1011.
New at luckyscent: The Different Company Sel de Vetiver.
Cacharel returns to men’s fragrance after a nearly seven year hiatus with the masculine counterpart to 2003’s Amor Amor, aptly entitled Amor pour Homme. The bottle has changed from red to blue and one of the Amors has been dropped, but the real story is the composition. With notes of bergamot, aromatic tea, mandarin, rose, cardamom, palisander wood, benzoin and tonka bean, Amor Pour Homme, created by Sophie Labbe and Pierre Wargnye, bears little resemblance to its feminine predecessor.
First, a word about Cacharel. Overall, I love their collection of women’s fragrances (though I found Promesse a phenomenal bore) but am saddened by the marked lack of men’s scents. Cacharel’s first men’s fragrance, Pour L’Homme, is an odd combination of nutmeg and ylang tempered by floral and herbal notes…
As previously reported, Etat Libre d’Orange is a new niche line that will launch in France this September with six unisex fragrances. Here are more detailed descriptions of the scents:
Jasmin et Cigarette is by perfumer Antoine Maisondieu, and features notes of jasmine absolute, tobacco, hay, apricot, tonka bean…
Roja Dove, of the Roja Dove Haute Parfumerie at Harrods, smells the latest celebrity perfume releases and finds most of them lacking:
He begins with Intimately Beckham. David's fares well: "The woods, the resins are actually rather good: cedarwood, myrrh, it has an amber note in it. It's a potentially nice smell. It has character," he says. With better ingredients it would be "a very, very interesting scent".
Read what he has to say about the rest of the fall's celebrity fragrance line up in the Guardian. Many thanks to loolyooly of Makeupalley for the link!
More reading: Roja Dove on perfume bottles, his favorite fragrances, perfumes for Christmas presents.