Guerlain has launched Quand Vient La Pluie, a new fragrance developed by perfumer Thierry Wasser in collaboration with Sylvaine Delacourte. Inspired by the smell of nature after the rain, the scent includes notes of heliotrope, violet, rosemary, sambac jasmine, and “un soupçon” of praline…
Estee Lauder Private Collection ~ perfume review
This past Sunday’s New York Times has a review of A Privileged Life: Celebrating WASP Style by Susanna Salk. The review mentions some of the touchstones of WASP style: boat sneakers, Truman Capote, gin, L.L. Bean, and dachshunds. The review drew forth the world of chicken salad luncheons overlooking stretches of perfectly manicured lawn. Add wafts of Estée Lauder Private Collection, and the vision is complete.
When I grew up, Estée Lauder was the height of elegance. The worlds of Crème de la Mer and wildly expensive, physician-certified skin care didn’t exist yet. My mother’s mother treasured her tiny bottle of Youth Dew bath oil (“It’s Estée Lauder,” she said meaningfully), and I was well into college before I felt worthy of approaching an Estée Lauder cosmetics counter with its efficient, uniformed saleswomen and rows of lipsticks in ridged gold tubes. In my hometown, the best women wore Estée Lauder makeup and perfume. The best of the best had a bottle of Private Collection on their dressers…
Where else, indeed
The recent film adaptation of Patrick Süskind's novel Perfume put Grasse back on the map as the world capital of perfumery. Where else can you walk through fields of roses and jasmine, design a signature perfume and eat at one of the Côte d'Azur's best two-star Michelin restaurants?
— Wake up and smell the perfume, in last Wednesday's Telegraph, gives advice for tourists visiting Grasse.
And Tauer Perfumes is running a poll to help choose a new bottle design for their Lonestar Memories fragrance. You can see the choices (and vote!) here.
Online fragrance shopping
Deal at beautyhabit: with any purchase of $85 or more, get an 8 piece deluxe men's sampler and a coupon for $10 off your next purchase of $50 or more. Use coupon code BHSHAVE, good through 6/14.
Deal at kiehls: get free shipping on orders of $40 or more with coupon code FATHER, good through 6/18.
Deal at saks: free rush shipping on orders of $150 or more using coupon code RUSH4DAD, good through 6/13.
New at sephora: Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Pour Homme.
New at ulta: Armani Attitude for men.
Emporio Armani Red She & Red He, Ayala Moriel Tirzah ~ new fragrances
Giorgio Armani has launched a duo of new fragrances, Emporio Armani Red She and Red He. A portion of the proceeds will benefit (PRODUCT) RED, a project to raise funds to help women and children with HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Emporio Armani Red She is a “white cotton veil in the breeze on a summer morning”, and includes notes of mandarin, bergamot, blackcurrant leaves, ginger, mint, green fig, white woods and white musk.
Emporio Armani Red He is the “sensation of white cotton slipped over clean fresh skin”…