Basenotes has announced the winners of the 7th Annual Basenotes Awards. The winners were chosen by the members of the Basenotes fragrance forums. And the winners are…
Best Fragrance
Women: Chanel no. 5
Men: Chanel Egoiste
Best New Fragrance
Women: Annick Goutal Songes
Men: Hermès Terre d'Hermès…
Philosophy's latest fragrance launch is Inner Grace:
inner grace is your own personal heaven and was formulated with a scent to help bring peace and balance to your life. if you don't have time to meditate, inner grace offers an easy, one second solution. free your mind and lift your spirit as you apply directly to pulse points…
Folly and Jilt are new from Crabtree & Evelyn, “modern classic fragrances inspired by the great vintage perfumes of the 20’s and 30’s”. Folly is…
'La Boheme in a bottle'. Fresh, daring, romantic. Lively top notes of leafy green, iris, apricot and peach, open to a fresh floral heart of cyclamen, muguet, jasmine, rose and lilac, warmed with an aristocratic accord of leather, cistus and vetiver.
Jilt is…
Bel Respiro is one of the 10 fragrances from Chanel’s recent entry into the niche perfumery market, the Les Exclusifs de Chanel collection. The name Bel Respiro, and the inspiration for the scent, comes from a country house outside Paris that Coco Chanel owned in the 1920s. Bel Respiro was created by Chanel’s in-house perfumer, Jacques Polge, and the notes are rumored to include crushed leaves, rosemary, thyme, rose, lilac, hyacinth, green tea, aromatic grasses, myrrh and leather.
The frenzy over the Les Exclusifs reached a fever pitch in the weeks before they launched — among perfumistas, anyway. I’m guessing the rest of the world is only just barely aware of their existence. At any rate, by the time my samples arrived, I was reluctant to try them at all. How could they possibly live up to the hype? When curiosity finally got the better of me, Bel Respiro was the first thing I reached for. A fragrance “intended to evoke stems, leaves and springtime” (Women’s Wear Daily, 12/22/06) seemed bound to please.
As it turns out, Bel Respiro was a good place to start…
Lolita Lempicka will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their signature fragrance with a new limited edition set, Les Caprices de Lolita. Les Caprices includes a 50 ml bottle of the original Lolita Lempicka scent packaged with three 20 ml fragrances featuring accords from the original: Caprice Violette, Caprice Réglisse (licorice blossom and patchouli), Caprice Amarena (almond and white musk). The set debuts in France in March. (via aufeminin)
Update: Les Caprices de Lolita was created by Annick Menardo, who developed the original Lolita Lempicka fragrance. (via parfumessence)