Since 2001 commercial use of the word Alhambra has been restricted to protect the reputation of the UNESCO World Heritage site.
The Patrono de la Alhambra y el Generalife, trustees of the monument, have approached the fashion house for an explanation and could seek legal action if no "mutually beneficial" arrangement is forthcoming.
— The Giorgio Armani brand apparently did not get permission to use the name Alhambra in their new Oranger Alhambra fragrance. Read more at the Telegraph.
Robin, the creator of this blog, has written many times: “…my perfume collection will outlive me.” Come to find out, she’s probably right; or at least her current collection will see her into grandmother-hood (keep in mind her child is only 9 years old) and the receipt of her first Social Security check. I decided to figure out the “life expectancy” of my own, much smaller, perfume collection and the results are shocking.
To start, I used three empty 50 ml perfume bottles, by three different perfume companies, and filled the bottles with water and sprayed till they were empty. The average number of sprays in a 50 ml bottle is 735 (double that figure for a 100 ml bottle of fragrance). We all know there are 365 days in a year, so a 50 ml bottle of fragrance will provide a person (who wears that fragrance every day and sprays once) TWO years worth of perfume. Of course, most of us wear more than one spray of scent; if you wear two sprays a day, every day, from a 50 ml bottle of perfume, that single bottle will last a year…
When the 12 Tom Ford Private Blend fragrances were released simultaneously in 2007, I threw up my hands. I was already drowning in untried samples of new fragrances, and obtaining samples of the Private Blends would have required either begging friends in New York to trudge to the Tom Ford store or ordering the samples online myself (clicking “BUY NOW” 12 times didn’t sound like fun). I ‘forgot’ about the Private Blends until recently when a reader of Now Smell This (a fragrance lover from Brooklyn, NY) decided my ignorance of the Tom Ford Private Blends was inexcusable; he sent me samples of 10 of the fragrances immediately and I obtained the two other fragrance samples from a friend in Los Angeles who got them from Neiman Marcus. (Thank you both!)
I don’t dislike any of the Private Blends; they are made from high-quality ingredients and many of them provide a level of complexity and development that is lacking in most fragrances I sample. After wearing all the Private Blends, my favorites are The Classic (Neroli Portofino) and The Weirdo (Purple Patchouli)…
New at aedes: Serge Lutens Serge Noire.
Deal at beautyhabit: with any Melissa Flagg perfume oil purchase, get a free Melissa Flagg perfumed soap (assorted scents) using coupon code CLEMENTINE, good through 8/31.
New at luckyscent: Lostmarc'h Din Dan.
New at sephora: Gwen Stefani Harajuku Lovers.
Banana Republic has launched Classic Limited Edition, an Eau de Parfum version of their 1995 Banana Republic Classic fragrance:
The essense [sic] of simplicity – modern and clean. Uniquely encased to celebrate Banana Republic's thirty years of style…