The French fabric house Manuel Canovas has launched a new line consisting of five fragrances under the name Les Fantaisies Parfumées. The scents “trace footprints from personal journeys of Manuel Canovas”:
Pink Riviera (shown) ~ inspired by Saint Tropez, with notes of bergamot, citron, grapefruit, mandarin, wild mint, jasmine, rose, sandalwood, white musk and amber…
Camille Goutal loves to douse herself in perfume. But when she rides the Paris metro to her work studio every morning, she doesn't want her fragrance to nauseate other commuters. "I try to respect people around me," says Ms. Goutal, the "nose," or official perfume creator, for French fragrance house Annick Goutal.
— Find out how Camille Goutal applies her fragrance in A 'Nose' Puts on Perfume, in the Wall Street Journal.
According to my friend Mikey D, it ‘smells like a cross between Clorox and Old Spice. It’s something a dirty middle-schooler with a mustache would wear.
— An anonymous "beauty panel" checks out some recent fragrance releases in the News Tribune (link no longer working, sorry). The above is one panelist's take on Clix by Axe.
Paul Smith has introduced a new fragrance for women, Paul Smith Rose. The scent is based on the odor of the Sir Paul Smith rose as captured by ScentTrek, a variation on headspace technology:
The rose at the heart of this fragrance is one that bears his name…
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Yves Saint Laurent will launch Elle Yves Saint Laurent in October. Like last year’s L’Homme Yves Saint Laurent, the new fragrance is geared towards a young market.
Opening with citron and lychee smoothed by peony, the fragrance follows with a vibrant heart of jasmin sambac and pink berries and ends with woody notes…