“We have a long-standing and very successful relationship with Britney Spears. We care about her personally and remain completely supportive of her,” the beauty company said in a statement, after a New York Post story on Wednesday outlined how her recent antics may be hurting sales.
— Elizabeth Arden says it will stand by Britney, even if buyers are turned off Midnight Fantasy after she shaved her head. Read the rest at MSNBC. Elsewhere: Britney enters rehab for the third time this week. (CNN)
Nautica will launch Island Voyage, a limited edition followup to last year's Voyage fragrance, in March:
Concocted by Maurice Roucels [sic] of Symrise, the scent, a fresh aquatic fougere, has top notes of ocean marine, lemon, black pepper, Italian bergamot and honeydew melon; a heart of lavender, wild jasmine and purple iris, and a drydown of cedarwood, musk and sandalwood.
Nautica Island Voyage will be available in 100 ml Eau de Toilette. (via Women's Wear Daily)
No fragrance review today, sorry. Just keeping up with the new releases is becoming very nearly a full time job, and leaves very little time for actually smelling anything, much less writing a review. According to Michael Edwards' Fragrances of the World database, there were 693 new fragrance launches in 2006 (via moodiereport), and this little tidbit appeared in today's New York Times article about Chanel:
Kate Greene, the vice president for marketing fine fragrances in North America at Givaudan, said that 800 new fragrances are expected to make their appearance in 2007.
800! That is over 2 a day, people…
Demeter has added four new scents to their Fragrance Library:
Vanilla Ice Cream ~ “Demeter’s Vanilla Ice Cream is sinfully rich, but also bright, warm and inviting, like the summer’s day that inspired it. It took 200 years and the determination of Demeter Fragrance Library, however, to turn ice cream into wearable fragrance.”
Lavender Martini ~ from the Happy Hour Collection…
New at Sephora, Vetiver Extreme by Guerlain:
Vetiver Extreme takes a modern twist on the original Eau de Toilette with the added richness and intensity of green and woody notes resulting in a scent that's the embodiment of simplicity and vitality.
The notes include lemon, bergamot, artemisia, pepper, nutmeg, olibanum, vetiver, tonka bean and cedar…