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2007 / Browsing by date: January 2007

Joop! Go for men, Bruno Banani Pure Woman ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 13 January 2007 14 Comments

Joop! Go fragrance for menJoop! will launch Go for men in February. The Joop! Go fragrance was created by perfumer Sophie Labbé and features notes of blood orange, rhubarb, chili pepper, cypress, violet, bourbon geranium, spruce balsam and oakmoss. Look for it in Eau de Toilette and a full range of matching body products. (via cosmoty.de) Update: Joop! Go is described as “…the youngest and most energetic side of Joop. It's about the surprise caused by spontaneity and defiance”. It should be in the US in April. (via Women's Wear Daily)

Also in February, Bruno Banani, the upscale men's underwear line that advertises under the tag line “not for everybody”, will launch Pure Woman…

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Tauer Perfumes Lonestar Memories fragrance, with an aside on Parfum d’Empire Ambre Russe

Posted by Kevin on 12 January 2007 14 Comments

Light Coming On The Plains III by Georgia O'Keeffe

Last autumn, I sampled Parfum d’Empire’s Ambre Russe fragrance. I enjoyed its vaporous waltz of faint incense, black tea, vodka “fumes”, leather, muted spices (coriander and cinnamon), and sweet vanilla. But Ambre Russe was, in the end, a tad too refined; its richness was an indoor richness — bringing to mind a world of soft, smooth leathers, sparkling crystal, polished marble, waxed paneling and gleaming silver. Ambre Russe’s opulence felt excessive and tame at the same time.

Lonestar Memories (created by perfumer Andy Tauer of Tauer Perfumes in Zurich, Switzerland) reminds me of Ambre Russe, and I’m happy that what I admired about Ambre Russe, the hints of smoke, leather and spice, has been tousled in Lonestar Memories, and made to encompass a world of outdoor opulence…

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Online fragrance shopping

Posted by Robin on 12 January 2007 Leave a Comment

Deal at b-glowing: get free shipping on any order that includes perfume using coupon code iluvperfume, good through 1/18.

New at nordstrom: Estee Lauder Beautiful Love, Estee Lauder purse sprays in Pure White Linen, Beyond Paradise Blue and Pleasures.

Vera Wang Truly Pink, Lancome Hypnose Homme ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 12 January 2007 11 Comments

Vera Wang Truly PinkVera Wang will launch Truly Pink, a new rose-based fragrance, in February:

Top notes are of white freesia, cassis and lychee blossom; the heart includes peony, pink rose accord and peony, and the drydown is of creamy woods, iris and violet wood. The juice is tinted a pale pink and comes in the same bottle type as the first Vera Wang scent.

Truly Pink is an Eau de Parfum, and matching body cream and body lotion will also be available.

Update: see a review of Vera Wang Truly Pink.

Lancôme will launch Hypnôse Homme in Europe this March…

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Perfume in the news: Christophe Laudamiel, Dawn Spencer Hurwitz

Posted by Robin on 12 January 2007 7 Comments

What he excels at is bold, steely, transparent accords that feel like architect sketches for a penthouse flat flying in earth orbit. One third of the fragrances in the box are in this manner. Another third are lavish, classical set-pieces in period dress, all of them good. The remaining third are literal depictions, the best being a cobbler’s shop (Atelier Grimal), a wonderful, bitter leather accord, and another, depressingly entitled Human Existence, which contains the biggest, most fecal dose of civet in living memory .

— Luca Turin on Christophe Laudamiel's perfumes for the Thierry Mugler's Le Parfum coffret, in this month's NZZ Folio.

"Every once in a while you'll find someone who's trying to wear a fragrance that's not really great for their skin because they liked it on a friend or it reminds them of their mother," she said. "They're trying to wear a fragrance that's really wrong, so I try to very delicately tell them I can help them."

— Dawn Spencer Hurwitz on wearing the wrong perfume for your skin type, in an interview with CBS4 in Denver.

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