In collaboration with 826 Time Travel Mart, YOSH YOSH, 826LA has launched the Time Travel Fragrances collection:
Ever wanted to teleport yourself to a different time and place? With ten new aromatic adventures to choose from, you can be dressed up with Victorian Violets or shreded down to your loincloth with Caveman. Flash forward to 2012 if you feel like getting out of dodge? All proceeds go toward supporting the writing center at 826LA…
Look is Vera Wang's latest fragrance for women. Vera Wang, of course, is best known for her bridal wear, and the fragrances (with the notable exception of the wildly popular, geared-towards-the-young Princess) have been squarely in the bridal mold: pretty, romantic, essentially conservative. Look aims to break out of that mold. It's tied to Wang's ready-to-wear line rather than the bridal line, and purports to be “bold, seductive and captivating” and “luxurious, prestigious and modern”:*
Look is Princess’ sophisticated older sister — but it isn’t about an age. It’s about a confidence level. It’s also making the statement that we are now a fashion house which does bridal, rather than a bridal house that does fashion. And we’re not about a skintight evening dress; we’re more artsy.*
I'll admit to knowing absolutely zero about Vera Wang's ready to wear line, but if Look's juice is any indication, “more artsy” must be interpreted strictly in the relative sense.
Look opens on fresh, sheer, fruity citrus with “watery greens”; it's sweet and apple-y, but too light and crisp to approach cloying…
New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Lubin Nuit de Longchamp & L de Lubin.
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Memo has launched a fifth fragrance in the Les Echappées collection (the first set of four included Lalibela, Siwa, Sundance and Inlé). The new fragrance, Jannat, was named for the Urdu word for paradise…
Positioning itself between the bespoke and limited edition markets, one specialized perfume company, l'Artisan Parfumeur, plans to introduce in January a line of single-edition perfumes - only one bottle of each will be made - to be sold exclusively through its flagship Paris store. The work of Bertrand Duchaufour, the in-house nose hired this year, the line, Mon Numéro, will be presented in one-off bottles designed by Pascale Riberolles, an artist and master glass blower, priced at about $20,000 for a 725-milliliter flask.
— From A Fragrance to Call Your Own at The New York Times. Note that the same article says that "perfumers now bring more than 300 new scents to market every year"...uh, did somebody lose count along the way?
Update: apologies, I linked to the wrong article! That'll teach me not to post before I've had my first cup of tea. Here is the correct one: New scents crowd thriving perfume field, at the International Herald Tribune.