Quiksilver's Roxy brand will launch their first fragrance, Roxy, this July. The fruity floral scent is geared towards 15-25 year olds, and includes notes of citrus, red fruits, magnolia, violet, lily of the valley, frangipani, ylang ylang and musk. Roxy was created by perfumer Antoine Maisondieu.
Roxy for women is an Eau de Toilette, and will be available in 30, 50 and 100 ml.
A second fragrance, Roxy Love, will follow after 6 months…
The Artisan Natural Perfumers Guild is celebrating the first anniversary of its re-launch with a new name and home on the web: the Natural Perfumers Guild. The Guild currently has 88 members, and accepts new memberships from professional perfumers, associates, suppliers and enthusiasts:
Many of the Enthusiast level members are in the mentoring program, believed to be the only one of its kind for entry level natural perfumers. There they are mentored one-on-one with a professional perfumer…
Osmoz, the consumer perfume website owned by Firmenich, has opened an island on Second Life:
“osMoz, The Pefume Island,” is a place to share and exchange ideas, offering a range of olfactory possibilities, including a stroll through the ingredient garden. Fragrance fans’ favourite feature: letting your avatar wear a virtual scent from the Fragrance Bar. Check it out…
With the long, hot days of summer just around the corner, it is the perfect time to pull out Tocca’s stunning blood orange scent, Stella. Blood orange is not as closely related to the fragrance of regular oranges as it sounds like it might be — instead of being tart or cutting, it is much more mellow and rounded, with a lush, honeyed depth to it.
Stella captures the fragrance of blood oranges wonderfully, with a lovely subtle hint of springy green leaves in the background to round out the fragrance. Tocca offers the scent in a wide variety of products, from candles ($16 for a 2.85 oz. pillar and $36 for 10.6 oz), soap ($12 for 6 oz), shower gel ($19 for 8 oz), lightweight body lotion ($28 for 8 oz), rich body cream ($45 for 6 oz) and Eau de Parfum ($68 for 50 ml). The Eau de Parfum puzzlingly (and disappointingly) misses the mark on scent, but the rest of the line, fortunately, executes it beautifully…