Some fragrances from that period seem to have been designed with smoke in mind to be mixed at the time of use, one half of some ambient gin and tonic. It was as if the composed smell needed an audience: perfume supplied the music, smoke the crowd noises.
— From Jasmin et Cigarette, Luca Turin’s latest column at NZZ Folio.
[Daniela] Andrier explained at the fragrance’s launch that she took inspiration from the soap form of Infusion d’Iris…
Pierre Cardin will follow on last year's Pierre Cardin Pour Homme and Pierre Cardin Pour Femme with a new duo of limited edition flankers, scheduled to launch this coming September. Like the original scents, the new Winter Edition duo was developed by perfumer Benoist Lapouza, and they share a common note of Pink Lady apple.
Pierre Cardin Pour Homme Winter Edition (shown) features notes of lemon, bergamot, orange blossom…
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New at bloomingdales: Cartier Roadster, Marc Jacobs Daisy Eau de Parfum (black bottle).
New at neimanmarcus: Prada Infusion d'Homme.
It’s Andy Warhol’s birthday today (he would have been 80 this year), and Bond no. 9 is marking the occasion with the launch of the third fragrance in their Andy Warhol series, Lexington Avenue (prior entries: Silver Factory and Union Square).
The Lexington Avenue bottle might be my favorite of this series so far. It’s decorated with shoes because Warhol drew shoes, lots of them, early in his career; for a time in the 1950s he was on retainer as an illustrator for the I. Miller Shoe Company. The name of the fragrance comes from an apartment at 242 Lexington Avenue in Murray Hill that Warhol sublet from a friend in 1953…
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New at macys: Jessica Simpson Fancy.
New at sephora.fr (France): Lanvin Jeanne Lanvin.