New at bloomingdales: Bvlgari Aqva Marine for men.
Deal at luckyscent: get free ground shipping on orders of $75 or more using coupon code Summer, good through 8/15.
Two from the (UK) Times ~ perfume in the news
The bottle, modelled on an engine piston, is terrific. Pity the scent is like something you’d get spritzed with in a Dubai casino toilet.
— Columnist Giles Hattersley on Cartier's new Roadster fragrance, from A Man of Style: What to wear to court, cope with the British weather in style.
If fancy graphics and scary sound effects aren’t enough for you, enhance your gaming experience by immersing yourself in smell-o-vision or com-pooh-ter games. Picture the scene: you’re engrossed in fighting German troops in Stalingrad when you gradually notice the unmistakable whiff of gunsmoke in the air.
— According to Smell effects: gaming that gets right up your nose, they're still working out all the bugs, but smell just might be part of your computer gaming experience soon.
Ed Hardy Love & Luck ~ new fragrances
The Ed Hardy by Christian Audigier line will launch a new duo of fragrances this coming December, Love & Luck for men and women.
Ed Hardy Love & Luck for women (shown at left) is described as “soft and elegant”. The fragrance was developed by perfumer Adriana Medina; the notes include bergamot, blood orange, red sake accord, black currant, pink peppercorn, nectarine, jasmine, forbidden plum, sensual musk, cedarwood, sandalwood and patchouli…
Out of town…
...and getting internet access is turning out to be harder than I anticipated. Be back Sunday!
Davidoff Adventure ~ fragrance review
“For Davidoff Adventure, my inspiration has been what I dream about adventure…a dream of wild nature where bright colors and hot spices blend with the humid freshness of the rainforest and the sensuality of exotic woods,” Antoine Lie, perfumer*
I don’t know how much traveling Lie has done, but with Adventure, he’s stayed on the beaten path and only dreamed of wild places and rough journeys. Davidoff, who may have reined in Lie’s more daring ideas, makes many claims in its Adventure ad campaign: Adventure “explores uncharted fragrance territory” “is daring and elemental” and was “inspired by … wildernesses and raw, masculine emotion.” “Rainforest,” “wild earth,” “intense thrill,” “discovery,” “exoticism,” and “challenge” are reference points for the aura Adventure aspires to capture. This is all reminiscent of Ralph Lauren’s ad campaign for its Polo (armchair) Explorer fragrance…