Olivier Durbano has launched Jade, the fourth fragrance in his “Bijoux de Pierres Poèmes” (Stone Poem Jewels) series*:
Long worshipped as the stone of immortality and a symbol of love and power, jade is also thought to bring inner peace, justice and harmony. Durbano’s olfactory rendering of the stone is one of the most beautifully realized green-woody scents we’ve ever had the pleasure of wearing…
New at bloomingdales: Vera Wang Look.
New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Acqua di Parma Profumo, Parfums de Nicolai Maharanih Intense.
New at harrods (UK): Ralph Lauren Love, Gucci by Gucci Pour Homme.
New at luckyscent: Lubin L de Lubin & Nuit de Longchamp, Serge Lutens Chergui.
New at macys: Usher UR.
New at neimanmarcus: Porsche Design for Men.
New at nordstrom: Michael Kors Very Pretty.
In November, Aveda will launch Ancient Attar Pure-fume (above left), a new all-natural fragrance for women celebrating the brand’s “30 years of aromas featuring pure plant and flower essences”…
Once I took a drawing class. It turned out that I couldn't draw worth beans, but it permanently changed the way I saw visual art. Thanks to the class, I understood that every stroke of the paintbrush, every smear of charcoal is a choice. I saw that a painting is more than an image and maybe a story, but rather a series of choices of color, technique, perspective, and subject that an artist makes to achieve a certain end. Thinking about why the artist made those choices makes art so much richer for me.
Similarly, it's nice to know something about how a perfume is made and the stories around it. I like reading perfume reviews and then smelling the perfume to see if I can pick out the different notes. I like knowing that Edmond Roudnitska labored over creating the smell of lily of the valley for Diorissimo and even planted them in his yard so he could compare, and that Jean Claude Ellena has chosen to limit the palette he works with when he creates a fragrance. I like thinking about fragrance trends…
Moschino will launch Moschino Glamour, a new ambery fruity floral fragrance for women:
A MAGICAL AND ENCHANTING PERFUME, A PROMISE OF CHARM AND SEDUCTIVE FEMININITY.
A FLORAL AND FRUITY FRAGRANCE…