Deal at elizabetharden: pre-order M by Mariah Carey and get a free mini Eau de Parfum rollerball.
Deal at luileiny: AromaM Hana-cha and Green on markdown.
Stale beer & celebrities
Pubs are planning to pump in artificial scents to mask the smell of stale beer, sweat and drains that used to be disguised by cigarettes before the smoking ban.
The aromas of ocean breezes and freshly cut grass are being tested by Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), which manages 2,000 pubs in Britain. The group is even considering a perfume that smells of tobacco smoke.
— Read the rest in Make mine a pint of Chanel, landlord in today's UK Times Online.
Not content with flogging us their albums, their films and even their wardrobe cast-offs, celebrities are tapping into that most personal of attributes – smell – to get their fans to part with even more cash. The launch of a new perfume this week by Kate Moss kick-starts a rash of celebrity scents. Coleen McLoughlin's eponymous perfume goes on sale next week.
— From a rundown on the latest celebrity fragrance releases in The Independent. Thanks to Ruth for the link!
Givenchy Les Parfums Mythiques ~ new fragrances
Givenchy will celebrate their 50th anniversary as a fragrance house with the launch of Les Mythiques, a set of 10 fragrances from the line’s back catalog. Six of the scents are for women, four for men; five of the 10 were no longer on the market. The fragrances are:
Le De ~ originally launched in 1957…
By Kilian L'Oeuvre Noire / The Black Masterpiece ~ new fragrances
L’Oeuvre Noire, or The Black Masterpiece, is the debut collection of fragrances from By Kilian, a new brand founded by Kilian Hennessy:
I conceived The Black Masterpiece with a quasi-Faustian ambience in mind. I wanted to cast a spell, like those that darkened Rimbaud’s spirit or conjured the witches in Macbeth…
Under the Jaguar Sun: The Name, the Nose by Italo Calvino ~ perfume books
“A scent always dissipates, leaving in its wake no more than a faint echo, a lingering trace. Perfume is a 'here' en route to a 'there', a today floating away in the direction of a yesterday, a possession paradoxically coinciding with an immanent loss” (Richard Stamelman, p.19).
The notion of perfume as the 'essence of absence' has always been a great source of inspiration to poets and novelists. Few, however, have taken it as literally as Italo Calvino in his tale The Name, the Nose. This short story was published posthumously in 1986, together with A King Listens and Under the Jaguar Sun, and consists of three interwoven plots in which sensuality, desire, and the sense of smell play a central role…