US-based clothing chain Express has launched Express Reserve for men, the brand’s first fragrance:
Introducing Express Reserve, inspired by the moment the sun sets behind the skyline and the city streets come to life. Classically modern. Stylishly sexy…
Fragrance folks have griped for years about non-stop perfume launches; it’s impossible to smell everything that’s released. Yet…we try. I’m often annoyed at the time I spend: “begging” for samples at department stores; ordering samples; STORING samples; and wearing fragrance sample after fragrance sample (a never-ending “activity”). Even in this economy, new perfumes keep coming, and I’m irritated! It’s even worse somehow when ONE company releases many new perfumes all at once. It’s like asking a friend who’s a baker to bring a cake to your dinner party, and he arrives with five cakes — and expects everyone to sample EACH one.
I’m suffering from perfume overload, perfume indigestion.
Dolce & Gabbana’s D & G division is launching five new perfumes in a collection called The D & G Fragrance Anthology. The fragrances are named after tarot cards: Le Bateleur 1, L’Imperatrice 3, L’Amoureaux 6, La Roue de la Fortune 10 and La Lune 18. It’s easy to remember those names, right? And before I forget, each scent is represented by a naked model or two…
Dolce & Gabbana will launch Rose The One, a new rose-centered flanker to 2006’s Dolce & Gabbana The One fragrance for women. It follows L’Eau The One, released earlier this year.
The notes include blackcurrant, pink grapefruit, mandarin…
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New at debenhams (UK): Salvador Dali Cherry Kiss.
New at selfridges (UK): Serge Lutens Chergui (export bottle).
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has launched two new fragrances in the Parfums de Beaux Arts collection:
Dirty Rose (shown above left) ~ “A rose like no other: dirty ROSE. It is the image of a single rose that has been a bit manhandled; bruised and dragged through the mud which gives it its rugged beauty…”