Cologne is the little black dress of perfumes. It's a basic, it's a classic, it will suit you forever and every girl (and boy, for colognes are unisex) should have at least one in a fragrance collection.
This scent is a refreshing antidote to the simpering, cloying and cynically commercial fruity florals now clogging up perfume counters.
— From Heaven scent: Cologne proves a refreshing antidote to perfume by columnist Bethan Cole in the Independent.
Calvin Klein will launch Secret Obsession, a new fragrance for women fronted by Eva Mendes, this coming September.
The Secret Obsession fragrance is a floriental with no relationship to the original Calvin Klein Obsession scent other than the name and the steamy advertising (the television spot has apparently been nixed by network censors). According to a Coty representative…
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Christian Dior launched Addict in 2002. They were hoping the name — and the tag line, “Admit it” — would get attention, and they got their wish; although it had been preceded by a lipstick and nail color range under the same name, it was the perfume that got people riled up. “The advertising industry has long been drawn to the low-life look, but the French fashion house Christian Dior has taken it to new depths”, noted NPR's Weekend Edition*. After months of pressure from anti-drug abuse advocacy groups, Dior dropped the tag line and replaced the early ad images that had appeared to glamorize illegal drug use.
Whatever punch the name Addict had in 2002 has been largely diluted by the subsequent flankers — Dior Addict 2 Summer Litchi, anyone? But the Addict juice, a floriental developed by perfumer Thierry Wasser, still packs a wallop…