Oscar de la Renta has launched a limited edition fragrance, Oscar Gold:
The new Eau de Parfum by Oscar de la Renta, so glamorous, so sensual: inspired by its fashion. A radiant start: bergamot, mandarin and rose. A romantic and floral harmony: orange flower, jasmine and orris. A sensual symphony: patchouli and vanilla. Under its magical glow, all women become legendary stars.
Oscar Gold is available now at nordstrom.
As an interesting corollary to last week's Sexy Perfumes poll, check out today's Sunday Times (UK), which has a great article by Luca Turin on perfumes as romantic bait:
Can perfume really help a woman get her man? After all, by the time a guy is hooked, it matters little whether she’s wearing Novaya Zarya’s Lights of Moscow or Chanel’s Cuir de Russie. There’s little hard evidence to suggest scent is any more powerful than other dating tactics, such as laughing at his jokes and showing a bit of cleavage.
Yet the power of attraction is one of the foundations on which the fragrance industry is built — spray on our perfume and you’ll be irresistible.
Read the rest here. More reading: Marcello's review of Luca Turin's Secret of Scent.
Penhaligon’s has launched a new fragrance, Lily & Spice:
The White Lily petals express sensuality but also the light of the Renaissance with an undeniable Green freshness…
The Unicorn Spell is one of the three debut fragrances from LesNEZ, a new niche perfume brand founded by René Schifferle. The scents were developed in collaboration with perfumer Isabelle Doyen, best known for her work with Annick Goutal. LesNEZ is one of those lines that doesn’t like to disclose fragrance notes (I hate that!) so we’ll have to lead off with Isabelle Doyen’s description of The Unicorn Spell:
If by dawn still linger on your skin mixed scents of leaves, frost and violet blooms, and that relentless yearning for stellar sights, you will know that, at night, you felt the milky breath of a unicorn…
For the holiday season, Thierry Mugler has launched limited edition parfum concentrations of his Angel and Alien fragrances. Alien Prodigy Elixir (shown) is the new parfum version of Thierry Mugler Alien (and I want that bottle!), Angel Caprice de Star, obviously, is the parfum version of Angel.
Both fragrances are now available at nordstrom; the 10 ml bottles are $190.