An advertisement for Le Labo's (new? new to me, anyway) bottle refill service. The music: Set in Stone by Fires of Rome.
Sarah Jessica Parker Covet Pure Bloom ~ fragrance review
Sarah Jessica Parker’s latest is Covet Pure Bloom, the first (and if I had to guess, the last*) flanker to last year’s Covet fragrance. Covet may or not be discontinued, but it has disappeared from several department stores so I can only assume that it was not the instant crowd pleaser that Lovely was.
I liked Covet, in fact, I picked it as the best celebrity fragrance of 2007 (as I noted at the time, some people really hated it, but at least it wasn’t so mind-numbingly dull that nobody cared either way). Covet’s opening was more challenging than Lovely’s, and to my mind, it was considerably more challenging on paper than it was on skin — on a test strip, it was very lemony-green and sharp and reminiscent of citronella, and it stayed that way a good long time. I didn’t think of it as a wildly risky fragrance, but perhaps anything that isn’t an instant crowd pleaser (especially on paper) is risky given today’s competitive celebrity fragrance market.
Enter Covet Pure Bloom. I sort of expected Covet Pure Bloom to be the pinkified, floralated version of Covet, with the challenging parts tamped down…
Online fragrance shopping
New at beautyencounter: Courvoisier L'Imperiale, Davidoff Adventure, Canali Black Diamond & Canali Summer Night, Kenzo 7:15 in Bali, Yves Saint Laurent Cinema Scenario d'Ete.
New at dillards: Davidoff Adventure.
Deal at kiehls: get free shipping and 3 free samples on orders of $45 or more using coupon code SERVICE, good through 7/21.
New at neimanmarcus: Van Cleef & Arpels Feerie (pre-order).
Kylie Minogue Sexy Darling ~ new fragrance
Australian pop star Kylie Minogue will launch Sexy Darling, her latest fragrance for women, this coming September. Sexy Darling follows 2006's Darling and 2007's Sweet Darling.
Sexy Darling, a woody floral created for the “modern, sexy, self-confident woman”, was developed by perfumer Sophie Labbé. The notes feature marvel of Peru, rose, pear, musk and sandalwood…
Guns to roses
But the villagers' race against the sun to pick the moist, pink flowers that produce the oil is becoming more urgent as they say climate change is making the valley hotter and drier.
"Roses like cold nights, dew in the morning and hot days in spring," said Nedko Nedkov, who runs a research institute on roses and rose oil in Kazanlak. [...] "But now, there is not enough dew, sometimes there is none. The roses are becoming too thin."
— From Bulgarian Valley Turns From Guns to Roses in the New York Times.