Laila, “the essence of Norway” from Geir Ness, has been launched in a new limited edition pink bottle. For the next year (through October 2008), proceeds from sales of Laila Pink will be donated to the Susan Komen Foundation…
Gucci by Gucci ~ perfume review
In Angela’s recent article on Becoming a perfumista, she identified four stages along the road from newbie status to curating a personal collection of 300+ perfumes: strong interest, beginning perfume mania, full-blown perfume mania and connoisseurship. I’d like to add a fifth: rampant cynicism. This comes, I think, of already owning enough perfume to scent a small town for the foreseeable future, and then not only looking for more fragrances that you might conceivably love and want to own, but also trying (in vain) to keep track of all the new perfume releases and to smell as many of them as you can possibly manage.
You can tell you’ve reached stage five when almost everything you read about a new fragrance makes you either laugh out loud or roll your eyes, depending on your mood. I must have been “in a mood” the day I first read about the new Gucci by Gucci, because I remember rolling my eyes. Gucci’s Creative Director Frida Giannini was said to have “unleashed her affinity for masculine notes” — yeah, right. I’ve heard that nonsense before. And “modern chypre” gets an eye roll from me no matter what mood I’m in. The commercial didn’t help — I’m a David Lynch fan, but his spot for Gucci by Gucci struck me as silly…
Tommy Hilfiger Dreaming, Bvlgari Aqva Pour Homme Marine ~ new fragrances
Tommy Hilfiger has launched Dreaming, a new fragrance for women…
…inspired by the sensations of falling in love – when the senses override, and your dreams and reality blur into one.
The notes include peach, tuberose, freesia, white hibiscus, white woods and orris. You can watch the Dreaming commercial (starring model Mona Johannesson) at YouTube…
Online fragrance shopping
C.O. Bigelow Chemists ~ shopping for perfume in New York
Founded as an apothecary in 1838, C. O. Bigelow Chemists has thrived into the twenty-first century as an unlikely, but very popular, combination of neighborhood drugstore and high-end beauty emporium. Its aisles are crowded with long-time local customers waiting for their prescriptions to be filled at the pharmacy, as well as visiting aficionados of luxury toiletries, hard-to-find home fragrance lines, and unusual perfumes.
Through an agreement with Limited Brands, the Bigelow brand name is used on newly developed products sold at Limited Brands’ various stores (Henri Bendel, Bath & Body Works), and Limited Brands has opened several shops under the C.O. Bigelow name in other cities. This original location, however, is still independently owned by the same family that bought the company in 1939…