Marc Jacobs will launch Daisy, a new fragrance for women, this August. The designer noted that…
…Daisies don’t smell, but I wanted to evoke the feeling that you get when you see them — happy and youthful. My gardenia and jasmine scents [Marc Jacobs for women and Blush Marc Jacobs, respectively] are more singular and definitely more ‘designer’ scents…
CEW (Cosmetic Executive Women) has announced the winners of their 2007 Beauty Awards:
Women's Scent (Over $35) ~ Prada Tendre
Men's Scent (Over $30) ~ Sean John Unforgivable
See also: all of the beauty award winners at CEW, other fragrance awards.
I’ve spent years looking for the perfect dress, a dress I can wear in the winter with boots and a sweater, in the summer with sandals, with pumps to business meetings, and out at night with a Miriam Haskell necklace and hand-knit shrug. When wearing this dress, I won’t have to hold in my stomach or worry that my bra straps show. Slide the dress over my head and I’m done. Well, I haven’t found the dress yet, but I think I’ve found its perfume counterpart: Y by Yves Saint Laurent.
Y is a clean, soft green chypre that lays a gentle background. It is quiet and elegant, but still warm, and when you’re wearing it people notice you and not your scent. It stays close to your body. Someone crammed against you in an elevator when you’re wearing Y won’t think of perfume but will think you’re still warm from your morning shower and maybe have clipped a few flowers from the garden for your desk…
Viktor & Rolf have launched an Eau de Toilette version of their popular Flowerbomb fragrance for women. Flowerbomb Eau de Toilette is described as sparkling like pink champagne, and the notes include tangerine, orange, pink pepper, floral notes, cashmeran, amber and patchouli…
Deal at neimanmarcus: the Scent Event runs through 5/14 online. Spend $85 or more on fragrance, get a cosmetics bag with deluxe samples of Boucheron Femme, Cartier Délices de Cartier Eau Fruitée, Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb Eau de Toilette, Molton Brown Blu Maquis Hand Wash, Dolce & Gabbana Men's Classic, Juicy Couture and Annick Goutal Eau d'Hadrien.
New at nordstrom: Lancome Tresor Sparkling.
Deal at rich-hippie: take 25% off all purchases with coupon code RHMOM, good through 5/13.
New at ulta: Tommy Bahama Set Sail St Barts, Calvin Klein summer scents.