Mandarina Duck, the upscale luggage line from Italy, has launched Mandarina Duck Man. The fragrance was developed by perfumer Nathalie Lorson, and includes notes of blood orange, peach, grapefruit, thyme, cardamom, nutmeg, musk, vetiver and kyara wood.
Mandarina Duck Man is an Eau de Toilette; matching grooming products are also available.
Tennis star Gabriela Sabatini has launched Ocean Sun…
Earlier this year I linked to a brief trailer of the movie version of Patrick Suskind's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Dustin Hoffman, Ben Wishaw, Rachel Hurd-Wood and Alan Rickman. Here is a longer trailer, in German, and perhaps even creepier than the first despite the fact that I don't understand a single word. According to Cinematical, where I found the link, it is due for release in Germany in September; the US in December.
More reading: see Marcello's review of the Perfume novel. Note: image via rottentomatoes.
Update: see Marcello's review of the Perfume movie.
Jean-Charles Brosseau, milliner and creator of 1981’s still popular Ombre Rose, has recently released a trio of men’s fragrances: Thé Brun, Atlas Cedar and Fruit de Bois. Of the three, the one I was most anticipating is Thé Brun or Brown Tea, created with perfumer Pierre Bourdon. Thé Brun has notes of bergamot, fruity notes, green leaves, lavender, violet, spices, cumin, jasmine, orange blossom, lapsang tea, palisander wood, powdery notes and musk.
As a huge fan of tea fragrances, it was with great excitement that I tested Thé Brun, and I definitely wasn’t disappointed…
Deal at aftelier: Spend over $100.00 and get a free Cepes & Tuberose Essence Miniature fragrance. Limited time offer but no end date given.
New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): L'Artisan Fou d'Absinthe.
Cindy Crawford has launched Summer Day, a fruity floral fragrance that “captures the sunny essence of a perfect summer day”.
The notes include watermelon, kiwi, papaya, pomegranate, yuzu, lily of the valley, syringa, hibiscus, golden sundust orchid, buddleia, cedar, amyris and sheer amber…