Models Carmen Kass and Noah Mills in the promo spot for Michael Kors’ new Very Hollywood fragrance. The music is The Fame by Lady Gaga. Below the jump: the “making of”.
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Replay Your Fragrance For Her & For Him ~ new fragrances
Italian denim brand Replay will follow last year’s Replay For Her & Him with the Replay Your Fragrance! duo, expected to launch in September. The new fragrances take advantage of reactivation technology that will allow the wearer to revive the scent with a single drop of water:
The men’s and women’s scents are infused with a molecule called cyclodextrin…
One after the other
In the lab, researchers exposed each nostril of study participants to a different smell at the same time. Instead of the brain interpreting the two smells as a mixture of scents, participants reported perceiving the smells one after the other, "as if the nostrils were competing with each other," Denise Chen, of Rice University in Houston, said in a news release from Cell Press, which is publishing the study online Aug. 20 in Current Biology.
— From Nostrils Compete to Relay Key Fragrance at US News.
L’Artisan Parfumeur Vanille Absolument (was Havana Vanille) ~ perfume review
Havana Vanille is the latest fragrance to join the travel series at L’Artisan Parfumeur. It follows Bois Farine, Timbuktu, Dzongkha and Fleur de Liane — not bad company, as these things go. This time, we’re off to Cuba:
From its vibrant Salsa rhythms, its famous cigars and Cuban rum, it is certain there is something magical about Havana. It is a place that contrasts all others. This mysterious fragrance is reminiscent of travels around the world, the nostalgia of crossing the seven seas to discover far off treasures and the smell of a wooden boat mingling with the aroma of rum and spice.1
The perfumer is Bertrand Duchaufour, who developed all of the L’Artisan travel series fragrances to date with the exception of Bois Farine, and the notes include rum, clove, dried fruits, narcissus, tonka bean, helichrysum, vanilla, smoked woods, moss and balsamic notes. Sound good so far? It sounded darned good to me, and lo and behold, I was not disappointed…