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Frederic Malle Une Rose fragrance review

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orange rose

Continuing with this week’s rose theme (see Lancome Mille et Une Roses and Bond no. 9 West Side & Bryant Park), today we have Une Rose (update: renamed Rose Tonnerre in 2022) from Frederic Malle Editions de Parfums, an entirely different sort of rose, far from the quiet elegance of the Lancome or the stylish modernity of the Bonds. Une Rose was created by Edouard Fléchier, a perfumer best known for Christian Dior Poison, and includes notes of geranium, blue camomile, wine dregs, Turkish rose absolute, and truffle accord (patchouly accord, vetiver and castoreum absolute)…

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Online fragrance shopping

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New at beautyhabit: The People of the Labyrinths A.MAZE now available for pre-order.

New at luckyscent: The People of the Labyrinths A.MAZE now available for pre-order.

New at nordstrom: Vera Wang Truly Pink.

Deal at your-cosmetics: buy $45 or more of Lothantique products, get a free Lothantique Grapefruit soap bar, no coupon code needed. Current markdowns include Keiko Mecheri shower gels & selected products from Dessert Beauty, MOR and Get Fresh.

Ile de Tahiti Coconut Vanille ~ new fragrance from Bath & Body Works

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Ile de Tahiti Coconut Vanille fragranceCoconut Vanille Eau de Toilette is new from Bath & Body Work's Ile de Tahiti line:

Beach in a bottle. The tropical scents of Coconut and Bamboo float within White Iris and Musk, transporting the senses and the imagination. Getaway is now everyday.

Notes include coconut water, bamboo, coconut milk, hedione, white iris, vanilla, white musk, sandalwood, vanilla. Coconut Vanille is $19.50. (via Bath & Body Works website)

Guerlain L'Instant Fleur de Mandarine & Cristaux d'Agrumes, Coach for women ~ new fragrances

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Guerlain L'Instant Fleur de Mandarine fragranceGuerlain will launch limited edition variations on L'Instant for women and men this spring. For women, L'Instant de Guerlain Fleur de Mandarine (shown) dresses up the original L'Instant fragrance (magnolia, cedar, musk, vanilla) with citrus and fruity notes, including mandarin, bergamot, bigarade, blackcurrant and mandarin blossom. For men, L'Instant de Guerlain Pour Homme Cristaux d'Agrumes is given a citrusy twist with bergamot, Italian citron, grapefruit. (via fashionmag.fr)

Coach, the American leather goods line, will launch their first fragrance in March under arrangements with Estee Lauder…

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On Sillage de la Reine ~ perfume in the news

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When Francis Kurkdjian, one of France's premier perfumers, set out to re-create a fragrance of Marie Antoinette, his greatest fear was that it would stink.

After all, he reasoned, the 21st-century nose might have little tolerance for the potent potions that the famous queen and her royal court used to mask the smells of their opulent but odiferous 18th-century environs at the Chateau de Versailles.

— from an article in today's Washington Post about Sillage de la Reine, Kurkdjian's reformulation of a perfume Marie Antoinette "could have worn".

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