Swiss brand Shantara will follow Rêve Etoilé, their debut fragrance, with Shaman, a new natural fragrance for men.
Shaman is a fresh woody scent that “evokes the virgin forest”…
Naomi Campbell lawsuit
Moodform Mission, a company that helped Naomi Campbell market some of her fragrances, is suing her for non-payment. If you really need to know more, see here, here, here or here.
Sabon Essence of Pleasure ~ new fragrances
Israel-based bath & beauty company Sabon has launched a new range of fragrances under the name Essence of Pleasure. There are six “daily perfumes” and two “boutique perfumes”. The daily perfumes are:
Aviv (shown above left) ~ “spring, the reawakening of life from a sleepy winter…”
Weird robotic reek
The K-9 Unit of the New Jersey Department of Corrections, while training seven recently acquired cell-phone-sniffing dogs, first put a whole bunch of cell-phone parts in a plastic box to create a kind of sachet of cell-phone scent for use in imprinting. The basic, pervasive cell-phone smell that built up in the closed box was powerful—a sweetish, metallic, ozoney, weird robotic reek.
— Ian Frazier in Scratch and Sniff at The New Yorker.
Lazy Tuesday poll ~ almost-Halloween open thread
Talk about anything you like — what perfume you’re wearing today, what perfume you'll wear for Halloween, the last bottle you bought, whatever. Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer.
Note: image is Bokeh Weeds [cropped] by Noël Zia Lee at flickr; some rights reserved.