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Italian denim fashion brand Replay will introduce Replay Intense, new concentrated versions of last year’s Replay For Her and Replay For Him, in June.
Replay For Her features tonka bean, mirabelle plum, sandalwood and gala apple. It is available in 20, 40 and 60 ml Eau de Parfum…
After her split from husband Peter Andre, former glamour model Katie Price had more bad news yesterday as her perfume was revealed by a beauty website to be the worst-selling celebrity scent.
Over the past 12 months, Price's perfume, called Stunning, has claimed just 0.37% of all celebrity fragrance sales on feelunique.com.
— Some gratuitous celebrity perfume gossip, in case you were in need of such a thing today. I should point out that this is only the results from one store, and Stunning is not even Katie Price's latest perfume (Besotted is) so I don't know that it is meaningful in any way. Regardless, you can read more at Perfume buyers turn up their noses at model Jordan’s scent at The Herald.
Crazylibellule and The Poppies will launch a new collection of solid twist-up perfumes or “CrazySticks” under the name Les Garçonnes (prior collections include Shanghaijava, Poule de Luxe and Les Divines Alcoves). Expected to launch later this month, Les Garçonnes comprises 7 new fragrances, all developed by perfumer Olivia Jan and inspired by the 1920s: Chère Louise, Hommage à Gabrielle, Pompon Gardenia, Rose à Saïgon, Jeanne Voyage, Joséphine Jonquille and Tamara Charleston…
Eau de Pamplemousse Rose (above center) and Eau de Gentiane Blanche (above right), along with longtime favorite Eau d’Orange Verte (in new packaging, above left, and celebrating its 30th anniversary this year), make up the new trio of unisex colognes from Hermès. I went to visit them recently at my local Hermès boutique, and had Pamplemousse Rose purchased and packaged within minutes. One of these days, I need to sit down and figure out the proportion of my perfume spending over the past few years that has been made up of fragrances from perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena — I’m guessing it’s substantial, and certainly it accounts for many of my on-the-spot purchases.
But I’ll start with the good news: I did not need a bottle of Eau de Gentiane Blanche. Amy Verner, writing in the Globe and Mail1, called it a “haute fresh laundry fragrance, soapy yet subtle”, and that’s right on the money: it’s possibly one of the nicest laundry-clean fragrances I’ve ever smelled, but there’s really almost nothing you could do with a laundry-clean fragrance, haute or otherwise, that would make me want to own or wear it…