Aftelier has launched a new solid perfume, Fir:
Our new Fir solid perfume, in a mirrored nickel-plated compact, is here just in time for Valentine's Day. Fir perfume, rich with strawberry jam-like notes, smells like forests of fir trees.
Fir is $95 for 10 ml. (via Aftelier newsletter)
In a vaguely comic turn of events, Shilpa Shetty, the Bollywood star who recently won the UK reality series Big Brother, is now in talks to create her own perfume. Jade Goody, the last Big Brother star to release her own perfume, found her scent pulled from stores after she made allegedly racist comments about Ms. Shetty. According to the Sunday Mirror, Ms. Shetty is…
…a big fan of the Body Shop – especially all the fruity smells, so she'd probably like her perfume to be like that.
What the world needs now is another fruity floral celebrity perfume release…
The New Zealand-based company Trilogy and its line of plant-based skincare products, including Botanical Body Wash, are the creations of sisters Sarah Gibbs and Catherine Wells. Gibbs and Wells define the threefold philosophy of their products as “Simplicity, Vitality and Purity”, and the company’s broader “trilogy” of values is a balance of ethics, aesthetics, and environmentalism. I have already tried and enjoyed Trilogy’s facial exfoliant and eye cream in the past, so I was looking forward to using the new Botanical Body Wash.
This shower gel is packaged in a generously large bottle that invites you to use it with abandon, although two or three pumps of the gel are enough to produce abundant lather. In addition to a dose of nourishing rosehip oil, the signature ingredient of the Trilogy line…
The first colognes I bought for myself were: Guerlain’s Eau Impériale in a big “bee” bottle, Yves Saint Laurent’s Pour Homme, Monsieur Balmain and Bijan Men (from the beginning of my perfume habit I did not practice restraint). I purchased all these colognes over 15 years ago at Christmastime in the beautiful Bullocks Wilshire department store in Los Angeles, so these scents bring to mind cool weather, holiday excitement, and carefree indulgence (I had just gotten my first “college” credit card).
Things change: the landmark Bullocks Wilshire building is now part of The Southwestern University School of Law, there’s nothing carefree about my abundant credit cards, and living in Seattle means cool weather is not as special as it used to be…
IFRA, the International Fragrance Association, recently published a new amendment to its voluntary code of practice, which is meant to “properly regulate and provide products that are safe for use by the consumer and for the environment”. The 40th Amendment has been stirring up controversy, primarily because it limits the use of various natural raw materials in perfumery, but also because it places bureaucratic burdens on smaller perfume houses.
A number of groups, spearheaded by Cropwatch (an “independent watchdog for endangered and vulnerable natural aromatic products”), are organizing a boycott of the new regulations. Perfumer & Flavorist recently ran a poll on the subject; 85% of the respondents favored a boycott. If you'd like to learn more about the issue…