Daisy Fuentes will launch So Luxurious at Kohls this July:
…So Luxurious has top notes of wild honeysuckle, beach flower accord, mandarin and watery quince; a heart of magnolia, orange flower and Living Glorious Flower of Cuba accord, and a drydown of driftwood, amber and honey. “So Luxurious actually has its roots in the development process for Dianoche,” said Fuentes. “It was born from a finalist for Dianoche…”
I love deep wood fragrances, the deeper the better. I’m trying to think of a fragrance with too much wood for my taste, and probably one exists but offhand I can’t think of what it would be. You can pile on the cedar or the redwoods or the sandalwood: bring it on, I’m happy. Few woods are deeper and richer than agarwood (aka aloeswood, and sometimes called oudh). Agarwood is now threatened in the wild due to overharvesting, and scarcity and high prices mean that much of the “oudh” used in incense and perfumery today is synthetic or adulterated to one degree or another…
Vivienne Westwood will launch Let It Rock in August. The fragrance is named for Westwood’s first boutique on Kings Road in London. The store was later renamed Sex and was known as the location for Johnny Rotten’s audition for the Sex Pistols.
Let it Rock is an oriental which opens with top notes of bergamot and freesia…
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New at scentiments: Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Pour Homme testers.
When I went to Nordstrom to smell Dolce & Gabbana’s new Light Blue Pour Homme fragrance, I asked the sales woman, “What’s new and doesn’t smell like everything else?” She clapped her hands and gestured towards a large Gucci Pour Homme II display. I told her I had already tried Gucci Pour Homme II, so she suggested Lancôme Hypnôse Homme or Terre d’Hermès or Dunhill Pursuit or Fleur du Mâle or Viktor & Rolf Antidote or Lacoste Elegance or …. Finally, I asked point-blank about Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Pour Homme and she said, “That’s OK — but it smells like lots of other colognes.” Her response was unusual; at Nordstrom all scents are “wonderful,” “fabulous” or, at the very least, “interesting”…