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Queen by Queen Latifah ~ perfume review
Queen is the debut perfume from the multi-talented Queen Latifah, who joins the rest of the celebrity stable at Parlux (Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson and Andy Roddick, with Rihanna and Kayne West soon to follow). Latifah reportedly smelled about 50 different fragrances, many of them “a little too mature or a little too sweet”, before settling on the final product.1
The resulting fragrance is a woody gourmand oriental. The opening is a bit loud (I like it better dabbed than sprayed, and better on skin than on paper), and features ever-trendy booze notes (in this case, golden tequila and cognac, other notes are bergamot, mandarin, baie rose, jasmine noir, coriander, patchouli, sandalwood, vanilla, tonka bean, incense and musk) over a sweet, amber-y patchouli, quite clean, with fruity undertones and the usual dollop of pink pepper. The longer it’s on skin, the more the emphasis turns to the gourmand part of the proceedings…
Frapin L’Humaniste ~ new fragrance
Niche line Frapin has launched L’Humaniste:
A breathtakingly fresh and civilised cologne by the great cognac makers and connoisseurs, Frapin et Cie who are proud to count the great sixteenth century writer and Humanist, Francois Rabelais, among their ancestors…
During prolonged stress
“Specifically it greatly reduces the structural changes that occur in the hippocampus [a part of the brain associated with memory and spatial orientation] during prolonged stress thus maintaining normal memory function,” he explained.
— Dr Nickolas Lavidis of Queensland University, Australia, explains how his product, SerenaScent (which apparently smells like freshly cut grass), works. You can read more at Stress relieving scent has ‘enormous’ potential for fragrances and cosmetics at Cosmetics Design, or check out the SerenaScent website, where a 50 ml spray is $7.90 AUD.
GoodTrueBeautiful Foreverlily ~ new fragrance
Foreverlily is the debut fragrance from GoodTrueBeautiful, a company founded by Beth Nonte Russell, author of Forever Lily: An Unexpected Mother’s Journey to Adoption in China. Foreverlily is named for Russell’s daughter, Lily, and is meant to be “a fragrance that calls you to your higher self”; a portion of the proceeds will benefit Russell’s Golden Phoenix Foundation…