There is an article in yesterday’s UK Times Online about the recent price-fixing fines against French perfume houses and distributors. Columnist Bethan Cole notes…
It’s hardly a surprise. When you buy certain big-brand perfumes, you are buying a marketing dream and paying for a sumptuous ad campaign — or should we say ad canard, or even ad fiction…
New at imaginationperfumery: Lolita Lempicka L.
New at lacremebeauty: A Keiko Mecheri Loukhoum gift set with a 75 ml bottle and a 15 ml purse spray.
New at parfum1: Kiehl's Musk.
Luca Turin's The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell is due for publication in the UK this May. Last July I posted a brief description of the book; now you can also read an excerpt at Faber & Faber or pre-order it at The Book Place (UK). Many thanks to Barry for the link! Update: see a review of The Secret of Scent.
Per Luca Turin, we can expect a US release under Harper Collins this November.
Kylie Minogue, the 37 year old Australian pop singer and actress who recently recovered from a battle with breast cancer, has announced that she will launch a fragrance. Minogue already has a lingerie line called Love Kylie and is about to publish a work of fiction for children…
Lancome opened its first boutique and spa in Manhattan yesterday, on Columbus Avenue in the Upper West Side:
Traffic literally stopped thanks to 10 beautiful New York men, donning traditional French berets, who lured neighborhood residents into the new boutique with dashing smiles, pink roses and deluxe samples of Lancome’s hottest products…