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Lazy Friday poll ~ your bespoke perfume

Posted by Robin on 6 June 2008 96 Comments

Bearded Iris

Things I did not do this week: I did not finish the second part of Things I wish I'd known as a newbie perfumista. Nor did I finish the follow-up post to Perfumista tip: on lists of fragrance notes, why they matter & why they don't. I did, however, watch most of the first season of Flight of the Conchords (any fans?), and I made serious headway in clearing out untried perfume samples. So the week was not totally wasted.

Still, here we are on Friday with nothing to post, again, so I'm taking a suggestion from reader Santemon for a poll topic: describe the custom fragrance of your dreams, and name the perfumer you'd choose to have develop it for you…

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Nasomatto China White ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 6 June 2008 18 Comments

Nasomatto China White perfumeNasomatto has launched China White, their sixth fragrance:

The result of a “quest to reveal the strength of fragility, ” and following the concept of “overdosing” on the power of a scent, Nasomatto’s newest fragrance, China White, is unlike any other. Controversially named after a type of heroin popular in the 1980s and with an opaque white ceramic top, this heady new concoction stands out even amongst the other scents in the Nasomatto collection…

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Online fragrance shopping

Posted by Robin on 6 June 2008 Leave a Comment

New at dillards: Jean Paul Gaultier Monsieur.

New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Parfums d'Imperfiction O Alquimista.

New at luckyscent: Montale Red Vetyver.

New at senteursdailleurs (Brussels): Mona di Orio Amyitis.

Comme des Garcons + Stephen Jones ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 6 June 2008 30 Comments

Stephen Jones fragrance with Comme des Garcons

Comme des Garçons will follow this year's collaborative fragrance with Monocle with a new fragrance created in conjunction with British milliner Stephen Jones. According to Italian Vogue, Jones is “the maker of the most beautiful hats in the world”.

Stephen Jones has described the new fragrance as “futuristic but rococo” and “a violet that's been hit by a meteorite”. It was developed by perfumer Antoine Maisondieu (who also created the Monocle scent and Luxe Patchouli for Comme des Garçons)…

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Eau d’Italie Magnolia Romana, Ellie D Ellie Nuit, By Kilian Beyond Love ~ fragrance reviews

Posted by Robin on 5 June 2008 57 Comments

Eau d'Italie Magnolia Romana perfume

Bertrand Duchaufour might be my second favorite (living) perfumer at the moment (you regular readers know that Jean-Claude Ellena is still at the top of the list), so Magnolia Romana by Eau d’Italie was one of my “most looked forward to” fragrances this year. I was a little worried about the “summer ozone” and “water” notes (other notes include purple basil, lemon leaves, neroli, nutmeg, cypress, magnolia, Bulgarian rose, tuberose, lotus, cedar, hay extract and white musk), and I was right to be: I don’t like synthetic “fresh” notes, and while Magnolia Romana isn’t overwhelmingly “fresh”, it’s just fresh enough to bother me…

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