New at luckyscent: LesNez Manoumalia, Hors La Monde Lady Shiloh, Divine L'Etre Aime.
Deal at nordstrom: with any beauty or fragrance purchase of $85 or more, get a free cosmetics bag filled with 18 samples (includes Viva La Juicy, True Regligion Eau de Parfum, Prada Infusion d'Homme & more), no coupon code needed, offer good while supplies last.
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.
Coming in February from Jean Paul Gaultier, wearable solid compacts for Classique (55€) and Le Mâle (45€), shown at left…
After giving it a lot of thought, I’ve figured out who best personifies Boucheron’s B de Boucheron: Bree from the television show Desperate Housewives. Like Bree, Boucheron B is restrained, feminine, bourgeois, and conventional — yet with an eye on current trends. B is middle-aged, but has the smooth, porcelain skin of a girl. Oh, and they share the same initial.
B de Boucheron honors the 150th anniversary of the Boucheron jewelry house and the 20th anniversary of its first fragrance, Boucheron for Women. According to an interview with Ursula Wandel, the perfumer who created B, B contains 20 natural products*. It’s also more expensive than the rest of Boucheron’s fragrances. B was released in 2008…
The Monday Mail, our weekly feature in which readers help other readers find fragrances they might like, will return from its “holiday break” next week. If you're already on the waiting list, you should hear from me soon; if you're not but you'd like to be, please wait — over the next week or so, I hope to post detailed instructions on how to apply. In my ongoing efforts to make this blog easier to run (and thus leave a little time for other life matters), in the future the Monday Mail will be a strictly reader-to-reader feature, that is, I'm no longer going to make any fragrance recommendations myself. I don't think that will be any great loss since you all did better than I did anyway.
I'm gearing up to move Now Smell This to WordPress under its own domain…
Coming next month from Guerlain: La Petite Robe Noire, a new fruity gourmand perfume for women inspired by the wardrobe basic "the little black dress".
The notes include Sicilian lemon, licorice, almond, rose, smoky tea, musk and vanilla.
Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire will be sold exclusively in Guerlain boutiques; 100€, size and concentration unknown. (via vogue.fr, elle.fr)