Leonard will launch L’Orchidée in France in November, in the US in 2007:
L’Orchidée Leonard is a floral oriental based around the orchid flower scent, created by Olivier Pescheux of Givaudan. Notes of bergamot, peach and black currant open the scent…
Elixir des Merveilles is the latest release from Hermès, and the third in the Merveilles line, following Eau des Merveilles and Parfum des Merveilles. It was created by perfumer Jean Claude Ellena and has notes of chocolate-covered candied orange peel, caramel, vanilla biscuit (vanilla sugar, tonka bean), creamy milk, sandalwood, incense, resins, ambergris, Peru balsam and balsam of Siam, oak, patchouli and cedar.
I was rather taken aback when I saw the list of notes for Elixir des Merveilles. Folding Eau des Merveilles into a sugary dessert doesn’t strike me as an obvious choice, and the whole thing sounded so over-the-top foody, especially for Jean Claude Ellena.
The good news: it isn’t really over-the-top foody…
La Prairie has launched Midnight Rain (see bottle at right), a fragrance with notes of guava, mandarin, pomegranate, freesia, white lily, vanilla orchid, plum flower, amber flower, patchouli, vetyver, cashmere woods and musk…
Hermès launched Eau des Merveilles in 2004. The fragrance was created by perfumers Ralf Schwieger and Nathalie Feisthauer, and has notes of elemi, bitter orange, Italian lemon, Indonesian pepper, pink pepper, ambergris accord, oak, cedar, vetiver, balsam of Peru and tears of Siam. Eau des Merveilles, or Water of Wonders, was said to have been inspired by ambergris…