“It smells like plastic,” said one partygoer.
— An early review of Amanda Lepore's Amanda fragrance. Read more at the Washington Blade.
Bond no. 9 Brooklyn ~ new fragrance
Next up in Bond no. 9's series of fragrances based on New York neighborhoods: Brooklyn, due for launch in March.
Brooklyn is changing. New York’s legendary city within a city, home to a century or more of strivers, dreamers, and Nobel laureates, is reinventing itself, neighborhood by neighborhood, as an edgy metropolis…
L’Artisan Parfumeur Mure et Musc ~ fragrance reviews
I bought my first bottle of L’Artisan Parfumeur Mûre et Musc in 1990, twelve years after its debut. It’s been ten years since my last bottle of Mûre et Musc and, as luck would have it, a friend has a bottle of Mûre et Musc from 1988 — a high school graduation gift — and she let me wear the ‘vintage’ perfume; the fragrance is just as I remember it: a deep, rich smell of berries (like the scent of fresh, ripe berries cooking in sugar syrup with a whole vanilla bean and lemon rind tossed in for good measure) coupled with a lively and almost “resinous” musk. The mood of 1988 Mûre et Musc is happy, summery (and unisex).
Mûre et Musc Eau de Toilette (current version)
I did a double-sniff when I recently sampled a brand-new bottle of Mûre et Musc Eau de Toilette…
Online fragrance shopping
Deal at beautyencounter: get free shipping on orders of $50 or more with coupon code DECSHIP, good through 12/14.
Deal at beautyhabit: spend $75 or more and get an 8 piece fragrance sampler. New items include the Memoire Liquide line, Saffron James Nani.
Deal at crabtree-evelyn: storewide sale 20% off, plus get free shipping on orders of $55 or more with coupon code FREE55, good through 12/15.
New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): the Romea d'Ameor line.
Jil Sander Style Soft ~ new fragrance
Jil Sander will launch Style Soft, the latest flanker to 2006's Jil Sander Style for Women fragrance, this coming February.
Style Soft was developed by perfumer Bernard Ellena, and is intended to be a gentler, more transparent version of the original Style scent, with fruity notes replacing the spices…