The Academia del Perfume in Spain has announced the winners of their fragrance awards for 2008:
Best women's fragrance, selective: Carolina Herrera CH
Best men's fragrance, selective: Chanel Allure Homme Sport Cologne Sport
You can see the rest of the winners at the Academia del Perfume website. (found via cosmeticnews)
See also: the Fragrance Awards page, The 2008 fragrance awards season ~ the big winners
Lolita Lempicka Fleur Défendue / Forbidden Flower is the latest flanker to the original Lolita Lempicka fragrance. Like its parent, it was developed by perfumer Annick Menardo.
I said yesterday that Lolita Lempicka was a more floral take on the Thierry Mugler Angel theme; Forbidden Flower might be seen as a more floral take on Lolita Lempicka. The opening is similarly crisp, sharp and fruity…
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This week, we're helping Inés, who has commented here a few times as lareinarumbera. Inés currently owns three perfumes (see below) but is looking for something she might like better.
Here is what we know about Inés:
She is in her 20s, but hangs out with people who are older than she is.
She is a full time student by day…
Designer Lolita Lempicka's eponymous perfume, launched in 1997, was already being compared to its obvious forebear, Thierry Mugler Angel, before it even hit the stores, although Parfums Lolita Lempicka insisted that their scent was much more floral. Still, of all the many spawn of Angel, as I like to think of them, Lolita Lempicka might be the most successful, both commercially (it was a top seller) and artistically.
And it is more floral. Perfumer Annick Menardo developed Lolita Lempicka, and she toned down some of Angel's darker, more jarring elements and replaced them with a sweeter, “prettier”, less challenging blend of violet, iris and licorice…