The Thymes has launched the Indigenous collection of home fragrances:
Expand your horizons. Ignite your senses. Enhance your connection with the world around you with Indigenous by Thymes…
Serge Lutens Mandarine Mandarin ~ fragrance review
Mandarine Mandarin was launched by Serge Lutens last year; like most of the line, it was created in collaboration with perfumer Christopher Sheldrake. The notes include Chinese orange, nutmeg, clove, candied mandarin, orange peel, smoky tea, rock rose, labdanum, tonka bean, musk and ambergris.
Out of the last handful of releases from Serge Lutens, there has only been one I’ve been really dying to own, and that is the much maligned Miel de Bois. The rest (Borneo 1834, Cedre, Gris Clair, Chypre Rouge), well, it isn’t that I didn’t like them (ok, I didn’t like Borneo at all) so much as that I didn’t adore them enough to want a bottle. They have all been interesting, mind you, I just don’t adore any of them.
Mandarine Mandarin, happily or not (my wallet is certainly pleased) falls into that category…
Masaki Matsushima Cherry, Guerlain Chamade Pour Homme ~ new fragrances
Masaki Matsushima has launched their latest fragrance in the mat; series, Cherry:
It is quite a challenge to create a feminine fragrance that is based on the cherry without falling into edible scents used in liquors or candies. Jean Jacques, Masaki’s “nose” managed this subtle combination of the mat; base with a cherry top and blossom heart.
The notes include cherry, blackcurrant, bilberry…
Online fragrance shopping
New at bathandbodyworks: American Girl realbeauty limited edition Crackling Fragrance Spray in Sunny Orange.
Deal from jomalone: get free shipping and a sample of Blue Agava & Cacao with any order using coupon code COLLECTION, good through 3/18.
New at sephora: Vera Wang Truly Pink, Ferragamo Incanto Shine.
Satellite A La Figue!, Ipanema, Corrida, 40 a l'Ombre ~ new fragrances at Luckyscent
Satellite has followed up on their debut fragrance launch, Padparadscha, with four new scents:
A La Figue! (shown) ~ “Intense dreams of languid summer evenings spent in a hammock under a fig tree…