Coming soon for the holiday season, a new fragrance from Demeter‘s Happy Hour Collection, Egg Nog:
If you love Egg Nog, you’ll love Demeter’s Egg Nog…and if you hate it, maybe you just haven’t had GOOD Egg Nog.
Demeter’s Egg Nog is a delightful creamy and sweet concoction…
Not quite as lively as her comeback to Sean "Diddy" Combs, but here it is — the commercial for Mariah Carey's new M fragrance, courtesy of YouTube. Update: the original video has been removed; here is a new version:
Two limited edition collector bottles for fall, both based on purple velvet:
First, Stella McCartney’s Stella Eau de Parfum “gets dressed in a luxurious plum-colored rubber velvet casing” for the Stella Velvet Edition. I was really hoping this was an all new fragrance (doesn’t a velvety version of Stella sound nice?) but alas, it is just the same juice in a pretty bottle…
"I am a pilferer, a thief, a scavenger of odors," he said, adding he's not interested in copying nature but rather "transforming it" and conveying aspects of nature using as few materials as possible. "It's a challenge to be simple," he said. "If I'm simple, the better [one] understands." If a composition is "too complex," he said, "the message is lost."
— Perfumer Jean Claude Ellena discusses his approach in a talk at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York earlier this week. (via Women's Wear Daily) His latest: Hermès Kelly Caleche.
Swedish direct-sales cosmetics firm Oriflame, which appears to operate just about everywhere except the United States, is introducing a new range of gemstone-inspired fragrances “not marketed on the pull of fast moving celebrities, but on the role [of] the perfumer behind the scent”…