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Mariah Carey Luscious Pink ~ perfume review

Posted by Robin on 5 August 2008 106 Comments

Luscious Pink fragrance by Mariah Carey

Luscious Pink is the second fragrance from Mariah Carey, and follows last year's M by Mariah Carey. Elizabeth Arden, who holds the license for Mariah Carey's perfume line, is hoping the new scent will find an audience in the growing Asian perfume market, and so the tag line, “Embrace the Ethereal” is more than just the usual hyperbole — you'd expect “inoffensive” rather than “unusual” or “big statement” from such a thing, and that's just what you'll get with Luscious Pink.

Elizabeth Arden is calling Luscious Pink a “sparkling floral”; to my nose, the emphasis is laid on the sparkling far more than the floral. The opening is fresh and diffusive, with pale pink fruits — I don't know what fruits those would be, in particular, but that's what they smell like: pale pink fruits…

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Better nosehounds

Posted by Robin on 5 August 2008 5 Comments

Yet for all the meagerness of our hardware, we humans can become better nosehounds with startling ease. In one experiment, Dr. Gottfried said, subjects exposed to a single floral scent for just three and a half minutes markedly improved their ability to discriminate among whole families of flower odors.

— From The Nose, an Emotional Time Machine at today's New York Times.

By Kilian Prelude to Love ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 5 August 2008 16 Comments

Kilian HennessyKilian Hennessy's By Kilian brand will launch the seventh fragrance in the L’Oeuvre Noire / Black Masterpiece series this coming September. Prelude to Love is a unisex fragrance exploring the theme of “Love and its prohibitions”…

…an olfactory memory of a first encounter…

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Online fragrance shopping

Posted by Robin on 5 August 2008 Leave a Comment

New at bloomingdales: Ralph Lauren Notorious.

New at elizabetharden: Mariah Carey Luscious Pink.

New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Parfums de Nicolai Cedrat Intense & Eau Turquoise.

New at parfum1: Hermes Jardin apres la Mousson.

New at saksfifthavenue: David Yurman Eau de Parfum.

Notorious Giveaway

Posted by Robin on 5 August 2008 17 Comments

Ralph Lauren Fragrances is giving away 25 bottles of their new Notorious fragrance: Update: the bottles are all spoken for now, sorry!

This fall, Ralph Lauren makes a departure from the florals that have made him famous with the launch of Notorious, a sparkling, spiced oriental fragrance that celebrates the seductive women of 1930's and 40's Hollywood. Twenty-five “Now Smell This” readers will have an opportunity to experience for themselves how the scent brings together golden era glamour, subtle sexiness, and the timeless elegance of Ralph Lauren…

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